Vitamins and minerals

[henryhoe]

Can anyone tell me a cheap way to get vitamins and minerals into my girls please??

 

[ChicKat]

Free range them or put them in a good secure pasture setting. They will find what they need in 'nature'. (Unless you are like us and everything is brown and dead, and even the grasshoppers are skin & bones)

 

[PressOn]

Where I live I have a very high mineral content including Calcium in the soil. The only thing that I am low on is Iron. I fertlize my front yard with an iron blend and throw the trimmings into the garden. My hens get what they need because I let them out every day and add to my yard what the soil is short on. Do a soil test and take care of your soil and the rest will fall into place as long as the hens have acces to feed in the yard that is.

 

[PressOn]

For the first time in my life I wish I had Grasshoppers in my garden. I have never seen one since we moved into our new home. But the hens get plenty of greens and slugs. Another note concerning minerals. I know that some people put the egg shells in the blender and feed them back to the chicknes. I feed the egg shells to my red worm bins and feed the hens worms from the red worm bins.