How much do you feed your birds in a week?

[greeneggsnham]

So with all the diffrent questions about how much to feed your birds I just wanted to do a little poll. I really wanna know...
-How much you feed your birds each week.
-What you feed them (scratch/treats included)
-What brand is it?
-What form is it in? (pellets, crumbles...etc.)
-How many birds do you have?

 

[chickaddict]

I have 6 girls outside and 14 day-olds inside.

In the winter for my outside girls I use Poulin grains Layer pellets and cracked corn
2 cups pellets in their feeder
1 cup of cracked corn I scatter on the ground

I free-range so in the summer they barely go through 2 cups of pellets all week, but I still put down a cup of cracked corn. Some they eat, some the squirrels eat.

Other stuff - chickens are scavengers they will eat practically anything I throw into the compost pile.
day-old bread - sunflower seeds - leftover pasta - vegetable scraps of just about anything

Mine also go crazy for apple peels, squash seeds, melon seeds, and lettuce.

When I bump into cheap bird seed at Job Lot I throw some of that down and they pick out what they want and leave the rest for the wild birds.

AVOID ANYTHING SALTY, SALT HARMS THEM!!!!!! AND THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO KNOW THAT!


I can't give any numbers on the babies I just received them today. I am feeding them non-medicated chick starter, it's only 49cents a pound so I'm not worried about that. In a few weeks when I turn over the garden I'll gather the smallest worms I can find for a treat.
On super-warm days in April I will bring them outside for a little while and they will find their own protein treats.

For the big girls in the summer I lay down several roofing tiles in the backyard in places where grass doesn't like to grow anyway.
Once a week I flip over a tile and let the girls go balistic on the bugs that have gathered underneath. The longer you leave the tile there the more diversified the bug selection is.

That's all I can think of at the moment - hope it helps.

 

[pardenx3]

14 hens on Layena crumbles. They go through a 50#bag a week. And they are New Hampshires.