My plans to feed my broilers...nutritious enough?

[Sqrl momma]

Hi! I just joined after spending countless hours learning great stuff from this board! We plan on purchasing some cornish crosses in the near future. They will be in a chicken tractor that will be moved around our field a couple of times a day. Will this food be nutritious enough?

1/3 of the diet sprouted wheat fodder
1/3 soy free scratch and peck feed, fermented
And then 1/3 would be fed dry: a mixture of 5 parts wheat, 2.5 parts green peas, 2.5 parts oats (should I use hulled or whole or sub a different grain?), 2 tbs sesame seeds and 1/2 cup mealworms.

They will get grit and brewers yeast (when I find a sale) or a calcium supplement for their legs (based on a study I read, 2.5% added to the food should do the trick). ACV with the mother added to the water with colloidal silver (used to use this on my pet birds to keep their water clean plus it fights off 600 pathogens). They will have access to a diatomaceous earth/sand dirt bath. They will get veggie left overs and we will eventually plant different ground covers (clover, alfalfa, etc.) to drag the tractor over. They will get fresh roadkill (or should I just do a maggot bucket? Is that too much with the mealworms?). Oregano for antibiotics. If we ever get around to doing a garden, they will get garden scraps as well.

Does this sound ok? I need to stay soy free and it's quite expensive around here! Thanks for your help!

 

[snow5164]

Yikes that sounds overwhelming! Why move them a few times a day ? We do it ever second day, I just buy grower , no grit or yeast . The are big healthy birds I mean they’re only around a few weeks

 

[Sqrl momma]

Yikes that sounds overwhelming! Why move them a few times a day ? We do it ever second day, I just buy grower , no grit or yeast . The are big healthy birds I mean they’re only around a few weeks

You are right! It does sound overwhelming! Haha! But I'm home all day with nothing to do! lol I just assumed it would be better to move them more often. I am trying to go gmo and soy free and the starter mix is really expensive. I have access (I think) to organic wheat, corn, peas, and oats for a decent price. If I just mix those to a 18-20% protein, ferment, then add a vitamin/mineral mix and mealworms to bump up the protein at feed time (grinding for the baby chicks), move them once a day and give them fodder, is that ok? Only 1/3 of the diet would be fermented grain. Is that possible to do for a meat bird? They will also have grit, oyster shells, roadkill, acv in water and garden scraps (next year hopefully!).

 

[Sqrl momma]

Actually, they will have 8 lbs of fermented grain each throughout 8 weeks, so technically, half of the diet would be grain/vitamin mix.