Will this feed recipe work for my chickens?

Amateur is the operative word here. My suggestion would be to let the pros with degrees in nutrition and years of experience help you out of the amateur stage. Feed your birds a good commercial ration according to directions forget the fermenting and organic nonsense and let them have access to green feed. Do this at least a year before you take up with all the fads you seem to have been sucked into.

 

You can't fix that recipe! Listen to CJ and buy a good balanced chick feed so your new babies can survive and grow. Mary

 

Feed the Scratch and Peck exclusively to your birds when they arrive, the formula suitable for their age range. IF after some time (and much more research on the SCIENCE of feeding chickens, not holistic hearsay) you still wanted to experiment with making your own feed I would prepare a very small amount and serve it as a treat. Not sure what the high percentage of spices are about as chickens have very few taste buds and are driven mostly by texture. And your homemade recipe doesn't have nearly enough protein in it.
The only fish oil you should every consider feeding is cod liver oil, and then sparingly as vitamin a toxicity can happen easily.

You need these links in your life:

http://www.feedipedia.org/

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/p...ltry/nutritional_requirements_of_poultry.html

I do make my own feed but I supplement equally with commercial feed, and I did my homework on what chickens require nutritionally to not just survive, but thrive.

 

There's lots of fantasy 'information' on the web, and birds need a balanced base diet above all. Mary

 

No you're not. Scratch and Peck does bot beed to be fermented and they don't say it should be. What you do need to do is find a way for them to eat the powdery stuff that is left once they picked out all the bigger pieces. You can mix it with a bit if water, milk, yoghurt, whatever and feed it to them in a dish. When they are done with that, refill your feeder.

In that reapect I like my homemade feed better... I get the powdery things to stick to the grains with a bit of added molasses and peanut butter. My chicks don't leave those behind!

 

With help from people on this forum we created this recipe.. I ferment mine cod liver oil included and when serving i add boiled egg or sardines for extra protein..
7 cups oats
5 cups wheat
3 cups split red lentils
1 cup sunflower seeds/BOSS
1 cup flax seed
1 cup sesame seed
1 cup pumpkin seeds/pepitas
3tbs black strap molasses
1/2 cup kelp
1/2 cup nutritional yeast
1tbs dried oregano
1tbs cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp pink rock

My chicks have had this since i got them at 1 week old they are now 4-5weeks and griwing like weeds feathering out nicely