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I feed 17% all purpose poultry, I do not use oyster shell (the roos don't need it and they get enough calcium from other sources), I do provide chick grit in the runs from time to time but it is not used as a feed. I supplement suet cakes, one per week each coop depending on size of flock in a coop, some coops get 2 suet cakes per week. Once a week they get a nice warm gruel that has all sorts of goodies in it:
Oatmeal, steel cut groats, whole groats, a little flax (not too much flax), millet, rooster booster vitamins, cooked mashed bananas, apple, CRANBERRIES, finely chopped and cooked pine nuts if I have them or peanuts, sweet potato, tumeric, cinnamon, garlic, thyme, scrambled eggs, finely ground pumpking seeds, some plain yogurt and whatever else I think I can cook in the same pot that I think may be good for them. I let this cool and mix it with a little feed and disperse to the chooks. They love it.
The rest of the week they get all purpose feed with fresh greens....lettuce, chard, keil, fresh pumpkin if I have it, zuchinni, squash or whatever they can have out of the fridge or storage.
Once a month I treat with an all natural wormer that my girl friend makes, she makes all natural human and animal health products and human beauty products, this wormer is the sludge at the bottom of the barrel that she divides 3 ways between her, my best friend and myself. The chickens love this and eat every last bit of it......I don't know what is in it but I can tell you that I love it and it makes the coops smell like Christmas baking for days.
I feed very little scratch grains....a 50# bag lasts over 2 months here with just less than 200 birds.
I also use Apple Cider vinegar in the their water maybe once every 3 weeks and I also put a few drops of effective microorganisms in their water every other week. (effective microorganisms = lactobacillus casei) I make a brew of this once a month from a mother source that I ordered a bottle of off line.
I feed pretty much the same things as geebs does and if I missed something she will chime in and tell us what I forgot.
I feed 17% all purpose poultry, I do not use oyster shell (the roos don't need it and they get enough calcium from other sources), I do provide chick grit in the runs from time to time but it is not used as a feed. I supplement suet cakes, one per week each coop depending on size of flock in a coop, some coops get 2 suet cakes per week. Once a week they get a nice warm gruel that has all sorts of goodies in it:
Oatmeal, steel cut groats, whole groats, a little flax (not too much flax), millet, rooster booster vitamins, cooked mashed bananas, apple, CRANBERRIES, finely chopped and cooked pine nuts if I have them or peanuts, sweet potato, tumeric, cinnamon, garlic, thyme, scrambled eggs, finely ground pumpking seeds, some plain yogurt and whatever else I think I can cook in the same pot that I think may be good for them. I let this cool and mix it with a little feed and disperse to the chooks. They love it.
The rest of the week they get all purpose feed with fresh greens....lettuce, chard, keil, fresh pumpkin if I have it, zuchinni, squash or whatever they can have out of the fridge or storage.
Once a month I treat with an all natural wormer that my girl friend makes, she makes all natural human and animal health products and human beauty products, this wormer is the sludge at the bottom of the barrel that she divides 3 ways between her, my best friend and myself. The chickens love this and eat every last bit of it......I don't know what is in it but I can tell you that I love it and it makes the coops smell like Christmas baking for days.
I feed very little scratch grains....a 50# bag lasts over 2 months here with just less than 200 birds.
I also use Apple Cider vinegar in the their water maybe once every 3 weeks and I also put a few drops of effective microorganisms in their water every other week. (effective microorganisms = lactobacillus casei) I make a brew of this once a month from a mother source that I ordered a bottle of off line.
I feed pretty much the same things as geebs does and if I missed something she will chime in and tell us what I forgot.
