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16 Chickens. 15 hens, one rooster
7 Partridge Plymoth Rocks (1 is a roo), 5 Dominiques, and 4 rose comb brown leghorns
About a bag and a half (50 lb bags) a month. They weren't as hungry over the summer, I just switched to layer feed.
I keep them locked up (in the run but out of the coop) until around noon, when someone lets them out to free range. I live in the woods, and they love pecking and scratching around in the pine needles and oak leaves. Mucho bugs and clover! But also hawks, eagles, owls, coyotes, raccoons, foxes, etc. So they only free range when someone's home.
They aren't laying yet. This saturday is their 18 week birthday, so I hope they start soon.
I came up with about 4.7 lb of feed per chicken per month for your data. They eat less than what the average of 8.5 lb of feed per chicken per month that I calculated from the replies above yours. I think this is contributed to the free ranging that yours do...and your number is right at half of what the others are and considering that you let them out at noon until time for them to roost makes sense why yours is pretty much half of the consumption as the others. Thanks!
16 Chickens. 15 hens, one rooster
7 Partridge Plymoth Rocks (1 is a roo), 5 Dominiques, and 4 rose comb brown leghorns
About a bag and a half (50 lb bags) a month. They weren't as hungry over the summer, I just switched to layer feed.
I keep them locked up (in the run but out of the coop) until around noon, when someone lets them out to free range. I live in the woods, and they love pecking and scratching around in the pine needles and oak leaves. Mucho bugs and clover! But also hawks, eagles, owls, coyotes, raccoons, foxes, etc. So they only free range when someone's home.
They aren't laying yet. This saturday is their 18 week birthday, so I hope they start soon.
I came up with about 4.7 lb of feed per chicken per month for your data. They eat less than what the average of 8.5 lb of feed per chicken per month that I calculated from the replies above yours. I think this is contributed to the free ranging that yours do...and your number is right at half of what the others are and considering that you let them out at noon until time for them to roost makes sense why yours is pretty much half of the consumption as the others. Thanks!