I try my best to eat conciously. Keeping my refined and processed foods to a minimum, eating whole foods and lots of organic fruit and veg. I am a vegetarian.
I want my girls to eat similar. Except for the vegetarian part!
I know that chicken commerical feed is good, in that it's balanced, however............ I wouldn't want to eat a pellet,... each and every day of my life.
I live in Guam which is a territory of the USA. We are situated in the western pacific. It is tropical here, hot all year round. 75 - 90 each and every day.
My flock is fenceless freerange
Cockfighting is legal here and big business.
I have lived here 9 years (from NZ) and have never been to a cock fight, ... say no more.
There is alot of Red jungle fowl running around wild, left overs from the cock fighting I guess.
So here's what I am feeding my 7 girls and the wild rooster (gallus gallus Red Jungle Fowl) who has so kindly offered to escort the ladies.
24/7 Nutrena Calienta maintainer 15% protien.
This contains 8 ingredients
corn
milo
wheat
sunflower
safflower
oat groats
pea
pellet of some sort
In the morning I put out 1 cup of this mix ( mixed in cayanne pepper)
Flax seed
sunflower seed
seseme seed
pumpkin seed
rolled oats (just because they love it)
Neygar seed
canary seed
millet seed
Once a week they get
homemade yogurt (Organic milk low fat )
or soy milk with probiotics.
meat or fish scraps. (i have to buy this for them and the dog, as we don't eat meat ourselves.)
Fruit ( locally grown - papaya, banana, watermelon, mango)
I have never used (but will if I ever have to) chemical wormers.
I check each birds poop daily for worms. I have never seen any signs yet.
I used ACV in their water at all times.
Plus they have oyster shell 24/7
The breeds and egg count is as follows
1 Sebright 1 1/2 years old 5 eggs a week or none at all. She is very broody ( I thought Sebright were suposed to lay 1 egg a week and not be broody)
3 Austrolorps 5 eggs a week except when molting, then a few less.
Red sex link, not laying yet, just about though.
Barred rock 5 eggs a week.
So over to you, your thoughts please
I want my girls to eat similar. Except for the vegetarian part!
I know that chicken commerical feed is good, in that it's balanced, however............ I wouldn't want to eat a pellet,... each and every day of my life.
I live in Guam which is a territory of the USA. We are situated in the western pacific. It is tropical here, hot all year round. 75 - 90 each and every day.
My flock is fenceless freerange
Cockfighting is legal here and big business.
I have lived here 9 years (from NZ) and have never been to a cock fight, ... say no more.
There is alot of Red jungle fowl running around wild, left overs from the cock fighting I guess.
So here's what I am feeding my 7 girls and the wild rooster (gallus gallus Red Jungle Fowl) who has so kindly offered to escort the ladies.
24/7 Nutrena Calienta maintainer 15% protien.
This contains 8 ingredients
corn
milo
wheat
sunflower
safflower
oat groats
pea
pellet of some sort
In the morning I put out 1 cup of this mix ( mixed in cayanne pepper)
Flax seed
sunflower seed
seseme seed
pumpkin seed
rolled oats (just because they love it)
Neygar seed
canary seed
millet seed
Once a week they get
homemade yogurt (Organic milk low fat )
or soy milk with probiotics.
meat or fish scraps. (i have to buy this for them and the dog, as we don't eat meat ourselves.)
Fruit ( locally grown - papaya, banana, watermelon, mango)
I have never used (but will if I ever have to) chemical wormers.
I check each birds poop daily for worms. I have never seen any signs yet.
I used ACV in their water at all times.
Plus they have oyster shell 24/7
The breeds and egg count is as follows
1 Sebright 1 1/2 years old 5 eggs a week or none at all. She is very broody ( I thought Sebright were suposed to lay 1 egg a week and not be broody)
3 Austrolorps 5 eggs a week except when molting, then a few less.
Red sex link, not laying yet, just about though.
Barred rock 5 eggs a week.
So over to you, your thoughts please
