Organic Chicken Scratch is EXPENSIVE! Tips for making my own?

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Question: Any tips/recipes for making organic chicken scratch?

 

[horses56]

Hi you can make it out of crimped oats,black oil sunflower seeds,and whole corn or cracked

 

[Folly's place]

Organic grains do cost more, so price out your choices before deciding how to go forward. The ingredients as listed above are all nice treats, which is what scratch is anyway, but 50 pound bags of each certified organic won't be inexpensive either.
Let us all know how it works out!
Mary

 

[GreenMountainEric]

I’m not really sure about other companies, but we don’t charge much for mixing the scratch feed. Buying the individual ingredients, and mixing them together yourself, would cost almost exactly the same. I’m guessing most other brands would be the same....

It might be a lot of hassle, for very little benefit.

I can’t speak for the company you buy feed from, but the mixing cost is $8.40/ton on all of our products. So, that is about 21 cents per 50lb bag. The rest of the cost is the individual ingredients.