Stop buying chicken feed

[Doggiekisses]

I would like to share my experience with chicken pellet feed. I stopped feeding my girls all store bought feed a month ago just to see what would happen. Keep in mind my girls have 3 acres to go where ever they want to. Since they have stopped eating any store bought anything , I am finding more eggs and bigger eggs. They would run like they were going to attack me for 2 weeks everytime they saw me just out of habit but now they stay gone In the back acre all day unless I call them for scraps . I have 9 laying and used to get 4 to 6 eggs a day but now I get 7 to 9 every day and they are so big and beautiful and my chickens are not too fat but plump and beautiful. Has anyone else ever tried this?

 

[cavemanrich]

Somehow I think this is a Troll post

 

[Al Gerhart]

Ditto, it has to be a troll post.

Do not try this at home kids.

 

[tlcmurphy]

Ditto, it has to be a troll post.

Do not try this at home kids.

Darn, and I just had hubby go out and buy 3 acres…

 

[Susan Skylark]

This is what my yard looks like 6 months of the year, to say nothing of neighbors, traffic, and predators and I keep quail and golden pheasants, which can’t free range. I’m happy you have this option but for many, an affordable and nutritious source of feed is vital to their ability to even keep birds. Your situation is ideal but not realistic for many people. The availability and abundance of animal feed and human food in the western world is truly a blessing for which we should be grateful, especially when we don’t have the option of the ideal! Our dogs eat better than most people in poorer countries and that should give us significant pause.

 

[Debbie292d]

I would like to share my experience with chicken pellet feed. I stopped feeding my girls all store bought feed a month ago just to see what would happen. Keep in mind my girls have 3 acres to go where ever they want to. Since they have stopped eating any store bought anything , I am finding more eggs and bigger eggs. They would run like they were going to attack me for 2 weeks everytime they saw me just out of habit but now they stay gone In the back acre all day unless I call them for scraps . I have 9 laying and used to get 4 to 6 eggs a day but now I get 7 to 9 every day and they are so big and beautiful and my chickens are not too fat but plump and beautiful. Has anyone else ever tried this?

Most chickens do WAY better and perhaps only survive because they're getting nutrients from their feed. When they don't, that can cause them to become vitamin deficient, weak, or prone to illness. These aren't wild birds like hundreds of years ago, they are domesticated.

 

[MROO]

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This is what my yard looks like 6 months of the year, to say nothing of neighbors, traffic, and predators and I keep quail and golden pheasants, which can’t free range. I’m happy you have this option but for many, an affordable and nutritious source of feed is vital to their ability to even keep birds. Your situation is ideal but not realistic for many people. The availability and abundance of animal feed and human food in the western world is truly a blessing for which we should be grateful, especially when we don’t have the option of the ideal! Our dogs eat better than most people in poorer countries and that should give us significant pause.

Don't feed the troll!
If those fictitious birds aren't coming in from the back acre for regular feeding, they're not coming back to lay those "big, beautiful eggs" where OP can find 'em, either!

 

[SourRoses]

Interesting how the emphasis is always on "store bought"...
Is it the buying or the stores that some people find so objectionable?

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I think it’s possible to make your own healthy feed, BUT I believe that it only makes sense, in terms of practicality and economy, if you have a good-sized flock.

And be prepared to do a lot of driving to buy many of the ingredients, and they’ll come in 50# bags, needing to be mixed on a 6:1 basis with the wheat, so now you need 300# of wheat; shampoo, rinse, and repeat for every other ingredient… (Note: obviously proportions will vary here; I’m just painting the picture.)

I buy Kalmbach Reserve feeds (the whole grain mixes) and pick up a 1# bag of store-label dried split peas and a 13 oz. bag of Bob’s Red Mill flax seed (not meal) for extra protein and to satisfy my itch for fiddling with stuff, and boom, I’m done.