What is everyone paying for 50# of chicken grower feed

[Flame80]

I only have 9 full grown laying hens. 6 white leghorns and 3 domaniques. I'm paying $14.50 a bag for 18% grower feed. That's the cheapest I can find and that is Lone Star brand. How much should 9 chickens eat in a week or month?? They are eating like CRAZY especially as the weather is starting to cool off! They need to start laying GOLDEN EGGS!! Does everyone keep feed in there 24 hours a day? Is that what we are suppose to do? How much could I supplement with scratch? I believe it is a lot less expensive.

 

[rosemarythyme]

All my food is expensive, $30+ per bag, so everything else seems like a bargain to me.

I do not leave feed out at night so as to not tempt rodents.

Scratch is a treat and not adequate substitute for feed.

How much feed are you going through a week, or a month? I refill a 7 lb feeder about once every 5-6 days, plus a little more (9-10 lbs) in fermented feed, and buy 2 bags of feed about every 6 weeks. That's for 11 birds.

 

[Alaskan]

As long as other creatures aren't eating the feed (wild birds or rodents), and the chickens aren't dumping the feed all over the ground, then the feed isn't being wasted.

I let mine free feed.

 

[MrFluffyandGirls]

$16.00 to $20.00 depending on what brand

 

[CatsandCrops]

Recently my flock has been eating a lot of layer feed. 10 leghorns laying 1 egg per day and 5 dual that just switched over from starter. They went through 50 lbs in 1 week! It used to last a few weeks. Does that sound right? I feed them some mealworm every morning when I open up the coop to the run.

Something else is eating your food or else they are wasting a ton. With 15 birds, each eating about .25 pounds per day - that's 3.75ish pounds per day. Even rounding up to 4 pounds per day you should only have gone through 28 pounds in a week, not a full 50.

 

[RainbowHen]

I pay 16.99 a bag

 

[RoosterML]

Poulin Grain Grower is running me right around $15 for 50lbs

 

[Alaskan]

around $20

 

[JacinLarkwell]

22 bucks for 18 percent starter feed

 

[Lovesumchicks]

Im paying 16.49 for a 50 pound bag. I have 20 chickens and 9 ducks. I go through a bag in about a week. Chickens eat what they need and know how much they need. I don't mind because I know they are healthy. They have 24/7 access. I do not have overweight birds either. I think chickens are probably the cheapest animal I have ever owned