Like giving crack to a drug addict .....

[fiberart57]

I also give scratch at night to call them into the run and fill their crops for bedtimes. I make my own so it's fairly healthy for them but they eat their mash during the day time also. However, when I have the neighbor chicken-sit, he's like grandpa and just gives them scratch. They're not happy to see me come home.

Mary

 

[gsim]

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I am doing around 2 oz per chook per day by WEIGHT, another poster is doing 4 oz per chook per day by VOLUME. I have 24 chooks and 50# makes it around 27 days in summer, 21 days in winter. I mix pellets and crumbles, but an going to go all pellets because I can store them and they stay far fresher and are far less apt to get stale or mildewed. I do supplement with treats of peelings, veggie and fruit scraps, sometimes some cabbage or a banana that sat too long, or scratch grain. I do scratch grain at 2 cups a day in winter if no veggies. No scratch at all during garden season because I feed mine tons of grass clippings and garden waste. Mine eat bushels of grass clippings for 7 months a year. What they don't eat goes into the coop as litter. Free and smells good. And did I say, it is free!

 

[countrychics]

lol chicken crack!!!!! omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! chicken see you coming

more crack please feed time

keep me laughing please. this is awesome .......

dana

 

[BarredBuff]

Thats exactly what it is like they go ape when you give it to them and feed mine in a 18 in long feeder.

 

[SallyF]

I only feed scratch as a "come to mama" treat before roosting; usually they've been free-ranging and it gets them back into the cage. I try to alternate treats- scratch, BOSS, table scraps, bread crumbs, oatmeal, Calf Manna, chopped kale, etc., so that hopefully they never know what's coming and don't get "addicted" to any one thing. When it's very cold, I make a warm mash of their layer pellets and add the treats to it, so that they get what they need along with the goodies. My two buff rock roos, however, are crack(ed corn)heads, and will follow me anywhere to get it. It's their absolute favorite.

 

[DiVon80]

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I do just the opposite. I don't feed any scratch until the end of the day and then only about 1 1/2 lbs. between 2 turkeys and 20 chickens (that's one progresso soup can) and they gooble it up quick. That is the last thing they get before they roost for the night.

I don't keep feed in front of them 24/7. I feed the pellets in the A.M. let them free range in my yard then last thing in the evening I give them there scratch(100#'s purina scratch mixed w 50#s race horse oats). This really fills them and the cracked corn helps keep them warm..

 

[spartacus_63]

If you really want to see chicken crack, get some meal worms! Even during the summer when the girls get all the bugs they can catch. Definitely the favorite in our coop.

 

[jojo54]

I get scraps from the grocery store daily. Sunday they had veggie burgers as well as the regular greens, etc. OMG! I have never seen riots like I had the last couple days over those burgers. They went wild!!

 

[SC_Hugh]

I like to eat a Garden Burger occasionally as well as cook one up for the flock

Not very often for the chickens, maybe 2-3 burgers so far, too good to feed to them all the time.

http://www.gardenburger.com/product.aspx?id=11630

--Hugh