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i'm a crazy bird lady and love the ravens. we have a pair near our house and
i watch them all the time. i even gave one of my kids 'raven' as a middle
name.
it's very handy living near a mill, but they are few and far between. i'm
surprised your feed store wasn't more helpful. you'd think they'd want
to pocket the extra bucks from an organic transaction. and you'd also think that it wouldn't be an outlandish request with more and more people interested in organic foods and practices.
i just have one hen at the moment, so i'm pretty new to this, too. this silly
hen wandered out of our woods three weeks ago like she belonged there. my chicks
aren't arriving until the end of july and i've never had chickens before.
goats, horses, cattle, sure, but not chickens. my hen eats about 1/2 cup of layer
pellets per day plus whatever she can dig up or gnaw down when she's in her
run. that's probably 2 ounces of grain (haven't weighed it, but that sounds
about right)... 16 ounces to a pound... one pound per 8 birds per day... so a 50
lb. bag should last almost two months? check my math on that one!
plus, you've
got waste days and hungry days (some days she chucks it all on the ground, some
days she eats it all in one sitting and wants more), so maybe a month and a half.