Pasture chickens

[Serina81]

Can chickens live on pasture alone?

Or do you have to supplement them?

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Pasture probably won't give them all the nutrients they need to produce a lot of eggs, but they could SURVIVE on it

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

We pasture. When pastured alone we do not get the rates of growth or eggs you get when supplemental feed is supplied.

They eat a lot less feed when on pasture.

 

[Serina81]

I guess I'll have to have the right breed too. I had brahmas out in the pasture and a few died. I think they starved, but I'm not sure. There was no other reason. I took the rest (who felt really bony) out of the pasture and put them in a pen. I have blue-laced red wyandottes still out in pasture and they're just fine. What breeds do well on pasture?

 

[WoodlandWoman]

What do you have growing in your pasture?

 

[saddina]

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Honey it depends on what's growing in your pasture. There;s stuff a chicken won't eat. I seem to remember that feather footed birds can't scratch as well for food.

 

[Serina81]

Mostly kentucky blue grass. The goats are fat and happy on nothing but grass so I thought the chickens would be too. And there's tons of bugs out there.