How Much is enough?

My 8 RIRs who are about 1 year old, go though about 50 pounds in a month. And that's with plenty of treats.

 

8 large fowl 20 pounds in 7 days with lots of forage, 5.5 days without.
Individual breeds vary.

 

SilverPhoenixNS my policy from the beginning of having chickens is to always have water down and available during the waking hours and food available down and available. I go out each morning and could easily put only a days worth of feed and guess what I think they need. Some use that method for reason bc they have rodent or predator issues and food draws in the varmints they for obvious reasons do not want around. I do not feed treats per se like others do and I only throw down scratch each morning I let them out and on occasion will give table scrapes bc I worm farm and feed the worms the scraps and the rest of our table scrapes we compost so with that being said food is in a large 2 pound feeder in the open coop daily and what I throw down in the morning daily and maybe through the weeks a old piece of bread or melon rind. Good luck

 

I have read on internet that a lighter weight hen eats around 4 ounces a day.

Also, I agree with jomoncon- once we had only 6 chickens - wyandottes - and they ate 50 lb a month or so.