What do you feed?

A note about pellets: most don't really care for the pellets but have that as a sole source of food and they learn to like it fairly quickly.
 
Wow - Thanks for the ideas! I might have to look into making my own feed too. With the cost of chicken feed going up up up - that might be the way to go.

Anyone else have home made chicken feed recipes? What are the best forms of protein? How about soy?

Just make sure that if you get soy it is ROASTED soybean meal, as raw would be toxic. The roasted soybean meal is in the major brands like Purina.
 
Thank you for the info - I didn't realize that raw soybean was toxic! I'll be sure to keep that in mind if I mix my own feed.
 
I use both. Crumbles in one feeder and pellets in the other. They eat both about the same. For treats i give them them farmers mash twice a week. Not very much table scraps. Maybe when I make roman salad i will give them the hearts. I hate them LOL.

I have never used oyster shells. They don't need it if they are eating the crumbles and pellets. Only had 1 soft egg. Thats was from a Delaware. Her very first egg. After that just fine. My 8 hens lay 6-8 eggs a day every day. All winter long. If you cal Sc winters, winter.
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I feed mine Purina Layena Pellets with the Omega 3. They love it and they also get table scraps. I love the ideas for the homemade feeds. I may have to try that.
 
My chickens are spoiled. For their normal feed they get laying pellets (right now I'm mixing in some gamebird feed since I have it for my chicks), they also get a handful of scratch in the evenings. I work on the weekends (at a restaurant), so they don't get any free range time then. So I save up our kitchen scraps and bring them home everyday. They typically get things like the dark parts of salmon steaks, shrimp shells, mixed greens, spinach, eggs, tomatoes and if they're lucky (and I make an oopsie) they get filet mignon, crab cakes, bison burger and chicken. Yep, my chickens eat purdy good :)
 

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