TREAT MIX .... They Eat to the last grain?

[ChickensAreSweet]

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NICE thank you

I go to Winco myself, but only buy my split peas, unsalted peanuts, and flax seeds there. The rest of my mix is animal-grade purchased at the feed store (cheaper). Winco will order for you anything they carry in the big bags, usually available for pickup in a couple of days.

 

[mommissan]

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Good idea. Makes sense now. They wouldn't eat it when I first tossed it on the ground, but after it rained, they cleaned it all up!

 

[shelleyd2008]

My chickens love the wild bird seed mix I get for my doves and pigeons. It has wheat, milo, millet, black oil sunflowers, and some cracked corn. The only thing my chickens don't eat out of that mix is the BOSS...silly birds.

 

[ladybug99]

The scratch I get from my feed store has only two grains in it... cracked corn and wheat. I supplement it with oatmeal, crushed unsalted nuts, dried fruits and bird seed.... they eat every morsel of it. I give it to them maybe once a week in the summer and every day in the winter..... in the winter I also add a bit more cracked corn. But is only a treat.

 

[dragonlair]

The scratch I get around here is cracked corn, oats and wheat. My birds HATE oats but love the wheat and corn. I stopped buying the scratch (ended up feeding it to the goats, who love it) and just give them a small amount of cracked corn a couple of times a week as a treat. I rotate their treats:

Hard boiled eggs (shell on, once a week)
Comfrey leaves (every other day in season)
meat/fat scraps (once a week in the warm weather/daily in the cold)
cracked corn (2 times a week)
bread
table scraps
dry cat food
grass/clover daily (have to hand pick, can't free range, in season)
wild bird seed/BOSS
goat milk daily
goat milk yogurt
goat milk custard (I use the smaller eggs that the bantams give)
fruits and vegetables from my mine or my friends gardens/trees
corn bread with other stuff added, made just for them

 

[moondog425]

It took my chickens a while to come around to eating BOSS , Now they pick it out first then go for the cracked corn. They go crazy for corn bread too. They will eat just about any thing....
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[Ole rooster]

When I let the birds out in the morning I throw out scratch in a clear area close to their run. One asset I seen from doing that is I atracted crows. With those I don't have to concern myself with hawks. I really don't mind feed them a little if I get these results.