Need some advice on food for Chickens

[Alicia G]

I have been trying to work out my own mix of food, something thats healthy for them. This is what I was thinking about doing

4 cups of ground corn
1/2 cup ground flax
2Tbl garlic
2Tbl molasses
1tsp of salt
2 cups pureed veggies
1/4 sesame seed
1/2 sunflower seed

I did some rough calculating and I came out with 12-13% protien

So what do you think?
I am really serious about making healthy balenced food for my chickies. All advice is Apreciated
Thank you
Alicia

 

[elmo]

Where did you get this recipe to begin with? In other words, did you start from known nutritional requirements of chickens to arrive at this recipe? Offhand, I'd say it's too low in protein, and not balanced in other ways. No calcium, for example...although I suppose free choice oystershell could deal with that deficiency.

You might look at other recipes like these:

http://www.lionsgrip.com/recipes.html