Official BYC Poll: Winterizing your flock's feed: Do you change or supplement it?

[MysteryChicken]

I usually feed them all the same 20% protein diet, with an extra 22% added on occasion.

I will offer some extra corn to help put fat on them, but won't go overboard with it.

 

[Percheron chick]

Fodder and fermentation are so very different they should be broken out separately. I ferment in the winter to get extra water into them but would never bother growing fodder.

 

[cherrynberry]

I usually feed them all the same 20% protein diet, with an extra 22% added on occasion.

I will offer some extra corn to help put fat on them, but won't go overboard with it.

Thats what I do. But along with corn I provide a tiny bit of scratch (flax, rolled barley, seeds, corn). I stick with 20% and feed mealworms as well. Mealworms and scratch take up no more that 1/2 cup a day, which I rarely reach.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Thats what I do. But along with corn I provide a tiny bit of scratch (flax, rolled barley, seeds, corn). I stick with 20% and feed mealworms as well. Mealworms and scratch take up no more that 1/2 cup a day, which I rarely reach.

I go a cup, or two of corn every other day.

 

[cherrynberry]

I go a cup, or two of corn every other day.

You probably have more birds than I do.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You probably have more birds than I do.

74 total.

56 only counting the adults.

 

[cherrynberry]

74 total.

56 only counting the adults.

You definitely have more. Do not want to get off topic but I have questions for you, so I will ask you via conversation.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You definitely have more. Do not want to get off topic but I have questions for you, so I will ask you via conversation.

Yep.

Okay.

 

[BecaHawaii]

I'm lucky to live in a very stable climate. At 1650’ in Hawaii. It gets down to about 57-60* in the winter and 85-90* in the summer. We don't have predators which is why we have so many feral chickens. So, I do not make any changes to feeding.

 

[Ascholten]

Keep it pretty much the same, they get all they want to eat, and plenty of water and gravel. Occasionally the free range to dirt nap but that's about all I do.

Aaron