What to do when out of chicken feed?

[Kirkwooder]

If your girls have enough good quality green pasture and some free choice oyster shell, your hens need nothing else. Some supplementary scratch is great. They will feed themselves if they have to, and will tend to thrive once they are accustomed to doing so.

My 30+ hens have an area of about 3 acres that they roam freely. I also leave out a home mixed, locally sourced, all grain/legume feed and a commercial pellet for their free choice dining pleasure. During the peak spring production of fresh green growth they consume almost no pellet feed and very little of the home made mix, preferring to find their own sustenance. This, by the way, is also my very best egg production season.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Did your feed ever arrive?

 

[Brooks_]

I think scrambled eggs would hold them over. That and some free ranging/veg and fruit.

 

[Cindy in PA]

If you do feed rice, make sure that you fully cook it first. You don't want it expanding in their stomachs.

Rice does not need to be cooked.