Meat Brid Feed (when saving money is not saving money)

[jcatblum]

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Have a chicken feed recipe the local extension office created, calls for soybean oil. The feed already has soybean in it, I know oil is fat, but I didnt consider the added oil to be more fat fore the chickens-- not sure why that didn't cross my mind!! The recipe calls for 2 lbs oil per 50lb mixed feed. I left the oil out, was worried the feed would go rancid quickly. Just can't imagine tossing grain in oil & left sitting in the barn for a month!

Anyone successfully put oil of any kind in their feed mix?

 

[Avalon1984]

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Have a chicken feed recipe the local extension office created, calls for soybean oil. The feed already has soybean in it, I know oil is fat, but I didnt consider the added oil to be more fat fore the chickens-- not sure why that didn't cross my mind!! The recipe calls for 2 lbs oil per 50lb mixed feed. I left the oil out, was worried the feed would go rancid quickly. Just can't imagine tossing grain in oil & left sitting in the barn for a month!

Anyone successfully put oil of any kind in their feed mix?

You are absolutely right there. When I use it for the horses (I know there is quite a difference between a horse and a chicken) I feed it with their grain every night. I grain them in those heavy duty rubber dishes you can put on the floor. I use those for my chickens too because they are too heavy for them to flip them over. I don’t premix all the feed, I mix the oil in the feed the day that I feed it. It usually takes me a couple of weeks to go through the oil and it doesn’t go rancid. Maybe add a little dish like that for snacks for your chickens and mix them with some scratch or whatever you have, maybe some bread? This way they eat it real quick, you can remove the pail when done and clean it and there is hardly any mess. Just a wild guess on my end.