How many times a day to feed a flock of 3 young chickens?

[PhantomSlayer]

I do around the same thing with feed! But what sort of stuff would you grow as fodder? As in growing your own grain, or growing greens and leaves?

We buy bird seed without corn. Some buy oats or other seed bags. Whatever you want to grow. We all have different preferences. We do the bird seed cause its in the same store we get our birds feed from.

 

[PhantomSlayer]

Unless you intend to grow your flock size, I would recommend you not keep a rooster. You really need 10-12 hens for it to work and not have beat up or injured hens (actual numbers can vary some depending on the actual birds). I would try to rehome him to somewhere he will be happier, and your girls will be happier as well.

I agree. 8 hens to a rooster is my ratio currently. We lost 3 hens in two years. I traded in our rooster after he attacked a broody hen that just came off of being broody badly. My friend had a much larger flock and more older roosters. Plus shes able to cull. She gave me a young rooster that we thought is a good looking boy. So I'm trying to grow our flock by a few so he has atleast 10-14 girls. I named him Casanova.