Ok, so not -literally- bone and ash. I've been reading a book about growing your own feed for farm animals. In the chapter for poultry it recommends bone meal and powdered blood, among other things (the peanut meal looked promising). I'm wondering if anyone here has tried to make/grow their own broiler feed mix and how successful it has been for you.
I already grow oats. What other feed would need to be tossed in if broilers were being fed freshly sprouted oats? Has anyone tried bone meal? Or peanut meal?
Not growing our own feed is beginning to look crazy. Feed prices around here went up a couple dollars a bag within two weeks and will probably get worse before it gets better. We're really pushing to feed our own animals as much as possible without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on a bag of scratch grain
I already grow oats. What other feed would need to be tossed in if broilers were being fed freshly sprouted oats? Has anyone tried bone meal? Or peanut meal?
Not growing our own feed is beginning to look crazy. Feed prices around here went up a couple dollars a bag within two weeks and will probably get worse before it gets better. We're really pushing to feed our own animals as much as possible without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day on a bag of scratch grain
