What Kind of feed do you buy???

[captainmoose]

Purina Layena, free choice oyster shell and grit. Every morning they get scratch in there run and leftover scraps from dinner.

 

[Ms~Silkie~Girl]

I used to use blue seal layer- Crumbles, but my dad just went and bought Purina Layer Crumbles. But Anyways my other ques. is... Welll my chickens are eating like CRAZY im going throught like 4 bags of food a month for 17 chickens.

16- Heavy Breed's & 1- a Bantam

Is that normal??? (I also give them some scratch outside on the ground, And they eat all of it)

 

[bibliophile birds]

Countryside Naturals organic. just switched from starter to broiler.

 

[fiberart57]

I feed Purina Flock Raiser, 20% protein. My neighbor feeds a generic brand of layer mash and his coop smells despite the fact that we both have six birds, he cleans his once a week and I clean mine once every three months. I do, however, pick up the poo from the night before. But I think that his birds' droppings smell stronger.

Mine also get a homemade scratch blend of oats, wheat, corn, safflower seeds and BOSS. They are healthy and doing great.

Mary

 

[Mac in Wisco]

We get it custom ground at the local organic feed mill. There's a high density of organic farms in this area of Wisconsin and there are several feed mills within a 30 mile radius that specialize in organic feed.

 

[Plain Old Dee]

DH picks up the feed for us since I have to work.

We feed 18% layer mash - Shawnee Mills brand, most likely, but I never see the bags.

We were feeding hen scratch, but the chickens only ate the corn out of it and left the millet and such, so this trip to the feed store DH picked up chopped corn and oats. If the chickens won't eat the oats, the horses will!

Kitchen scraps - carrot peels and stubs, onions - whatever veggies we have left over. Even some meat/fat scraps from time to time.

They love cooked rice and oatmeal.

Someone suggested plain yogurt - I may try some of that, too...

 

[B'villechicken]

Blue Seal. My daughter has hers ground at the local feed mill where she gets her horse feed.

 

[bibliophile birds]

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i am so jealous. there isn't a single organic mill south of Virginia as far as i know. i would pay good money (and what i buy isn't cheap already) to have a mill i could get custom feed from!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I'd love to get custom feed mixed again, but the mill that used to do it for me went bust. The next nearest mill that I am aware of is far enough away that any savings in having them mix for me would be lost in fuel consumption.

At the moment I'm using a 50:50 mix of whole corn and whole oats and will likely go over to two parts whole corn and one part whole oats. To that mix I add one half part of alfalfa pellets in the winter time when green feed is hard to come by. I also mix in ground oyster shell as they seem to eat more of it this way than when I was keeping a seperate hopper of it.

In another feeder I keep Purina Flock Raiser that I am currently mixing 50/50 with FRM (Flint River Mills) Gamebird Starter. This is an experiment that I may not stay with come spring. I ought to know by then if this is going to help with a feather picking problem I've been having.

.....Alan.

 

[fordmommy]

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same here