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After a few days my girls have some dust from the Countryside at the bottom of their feeder that they generally do not relish eating (they will eat it but only as a last resort). My feeder is a pvc type and they cannot bill it out, so it stays in the feeder. So every other day or three I will empty the fine stuff into a bowl and mix it with a little water, or a little oatmeal, or some applesauce, or some thick kefir... or a combo thereof. Just enough to get it all to stick together. Suddenly it is a treat and they gobble it up! I feel that there is no waste this way and they are getting the complete 'formulation' of the feed. When it's very cold I warm the wet mash, and when it's very hot I chill or freeze it (but my chickens are spoiled..).
I feed the wet mash in a separate bowl, so as not to introduce any extra moisture to their dry feeder. I don't want mold in the dry feed. The wet 'treat', they eat within an hour or two.
