How much do your birds eat?

[Chandlerharris]

I am new to owning chickens. I have about 25 birds (LOL). I’d like to get a gauge of how much anyone else’s flock eats. Preferably if yours is the same size as mine. I go through a 50 lb bag of feed a week with mine and it just seems like WOW a lot. Or am I wrong? I notice a lot of waste on the floor and I’m trying different things to remedy that. Any tips for me? I have the food in a 15 lb hanging feeder I only keep about half full. Only 10 birds are adults. The other 15 are about 3 months old. Thanks!

 

[RubelliteRose]

I only have 8 chickens so can't say about the amount of food, but we made a feeder like this one: https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...lon-25-feed-bucket-feeder-for-about-3.834227/ and have had zero wasted food since.

 

[HappyDuckie]

My 21 chickens and 2 ducks go through around 75 a month, probably a bit less. I have also noticed mine leave a lot of waste on the floor, so I remove the feeder and let my ducks eat the wasted feed off the ground at night.

All of mine also free range all day, everyday. That takes down feed consumption a lot.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

On average, Standards eat 1/4 cup a dat, bantams are are a little less

 

[Silkies and succulents]

The short answer? Mine eat too much.
I have 17 at the moment, and I’m going to get 2 or 3 more in spring. We also go through about 50 lbs in 2 weeks.
The amount a full grown chicken ussually eats in one day is 1/4 pounds. You have 25 birds and each one eats 1.75 pounds in one week. The total amount of food 25 birds would eat in one week would be 43.75. The spills, plus them eating varrying amounta due to differnt ages and sizes 50 pounds per week seems fine.

 

[Lovesumchicks]

I have 20 chickens and I'm going through a 50 pound bag a week but two of my birds are on the big breed size a Cuckoo Maran rooster and A rainbow dixie hen. She eats soooo much. Her crop is always the size of a baseball when she eats at the feeder.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

On average, Standards eat 1/4 cup a dat, bantams are are a little less

*pound, don't know why I said cup

 

[svh]

My 16 chickens go through 40 pounds in around 10-12 days, plus whatever they find free ranging about 4-5 hours a day.

 

[Cindy in PA]

.25 per bird would be 43.75 lbs. per week & that is usually for leghorns & sex link types. .35 for dual purpose birds would be 63 lbs. a week so you are right in between. They also eat more in winter. 50 lbs. a week is not out of the ordinary.

 

[Sally PB]

My four birds eat about a half a cup of pelleted food each per day. My food "scoop" is a pint jar, and I usually put two scant scoops in their bowl in the morning. In the afternoon, I give them some kind of treat, whether it's BOSS and mealworms, squash or melon guts with seeds, snipped up greens, or the leftover fines of their food wetted as a mash.