Growing chicken food to replace feed.

[Butchers Wife]

and if, as many of us do, you learn best by failing, hands on? Then I recommend you start by trying to bend your feed curve a little with core ingredients - not a bin of wriggling treats and a second high fat source (more treats).

I'm trading slightly smaller meat birds and a few less eggs for a few more birds without freakishly large breasts and for a vast improvement in my family's self-sufficiency. Obviously, feed producers guard their recipes because their lives depend on it, but I'm guarding against the global targeted destruction of food supplies. I think we can all find the core ingedients, thank you, it's the finer details that we're missing. At the very least, I can switch to whole soaked grains and rotational free ranging without fear of starvation. I'm just weaning myself off my family's reliance on incestuous corporate and government activists who's values don't match my own. I bet when they lose me, they'll lose all of mine for generations to come.