What do you grow to feed the chickens??

[Arielle]

TIme to look at feed catalogs-- which do you use????

http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/index.html

 

[Lacy Blues]

FEED catalog? Does Sandhill have a section for animal feed seeds?

 

[Arielle]

Opps . . Seed catalogs . . . but hey do feed much of their produce to the birds. Have a gander at the online catalog.

 

[Arielle]

http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/grains.html

THis is the grainpage. THe corn is located in the corn section and not here.

 

[Arielle]

http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/specialty.html#chicken_treats

chicken treats

 

[LaylaFlora]

Does anyone grow BOSS for their chooks? I usually grow Giant Sunflowers just for the flock.

 

[lazy gardener]

I'll be growing some this year. I grew giant last year, and they didn't seem to be all that excited about them. They loved the milo (sorghum) that I planted for them. That stuff grew 9 feet tall! I'll also be planting some millet, and have already planted some comfrey.

 

[LaylaFlora]

Ill look into sorghum. Sounds neat!

 

[Lacy Blues]

I'll be growing some this year. I grew giant last year, and they didn't seem to be all that excited about them. They loved the milo (sorghum) that I planted for them. That stuff grew 9 feet tall! I'll also be planting some millet, and have already planted some comfrey.

Did the sorghum grow tall and rangey or does it have leaves all the way to the ground? I've been trying to think of what I could grow to be not only something of a wind block but a shade source in the afternoons for one of my pens. I've tried sunflowers and either my green thumb is really black or something else but they didn't do well. I wanted really tall ones so I tried the "Giant" variety but very few of them grew at all.

 

[lazy gardener]

Sorghum grows extremely tall, looks like corn, but it never grows ears. Puts out a spray of seed heads where the tassels would be.