Just a hot tip to save money and have it be more digestible for your birds. Put your feed in a bucket with water and leave it for a couple days. It soaks up the water so nearly doubled in volume, and they'll eat less since there's more water in the food.
If covered and left long enough that will allow the feed to ferment aswell and bring out more nutrients. Helps hydrate in the heat aswell. Mixing in herbs will help alot too. (Basil, Oregano, Rosemary, etc)
I watched a youtube short recently which was about creating protein in a natural way as chicken feed by making a contraption that you can put your food scraps into. Flies will lay eggs in the food scraps, maggots will eat the scraps and make compost out of it, and then they go to the top falling through a hole for the chickens to eat. Might be interesting for you to check out
❤ wow I didn't know I could just buy this pre-mixed like this I used to buy several different bags of feed and mix my own very cool thanks for the tip.
I feed mine all flock layer pellets and game bird layer crumble. I have chickens, turkeys, and guinea foul. They all love it. We also give them the scratch grain as a treat.
Watch your chickens' weight. If they start gaining weight on the feed, they will quit laying. To get through a winter with eggs being laid, you need to add baby pullets in late spring so they will start laying at 6 months old. Of course pullet eggs are smaller but they still are eggs. When I was very young, the only food available was baby chick mash and for adults was chopped corn. Our chickens always loved their chopped corn. The wild birds would eat with chickens in the winter.
KICKIN CHICHEN, ITS AWESOME, also my chickens love it, way less waste, and healthier looking. Unfortunately it is a bit pricey here where I am but worth every penny!
Do you give your chickens other food besides feed? Like insects, worms and stuff? I have found that eggs that are a dark sunny orange have a little more flavor. They're a bit more delicious.
I just moved to a 24.5% gamebird mash starter, then to a 28% gamebird grower, both are from the mill and are ground up well. Wonder why some grind theirs and some don't
I mix my own. Equal parts of COB, with molasses, whole corn, sunflower seeds, layer pellets, scratch grains. I give it to them dry but I think they like it better wet. Thanks for your info.
Very educational show I bought a hand grinder our chickens don’t like pellets but the farm we go to I think they’re mixing too much minerals and calcium so I’m gonna grind corn and peas and maybe we or barley I’m not quite sure yet trying to save money and stay away from big box stores but we don’t have the money for gamebird food
My chickens refuse to eat pellets and crumble. In fact, they are very picky. I make own mix that is higher seed than grain. Add mealworms, black oil sunflower seeds, buckwheat groats, millet, wheat or barley, oats. Dried cranberries. And fresh salads
We do this and soak them and we add fresh veg scraps and rice. Our chickens get some fresh oregano weekly and we also give them cabbage when there is a big sale.
Good for you! Excellent choice. Worth the money for good health and happiness. After all , we don't,and other animals don't eat the same thing every single day, variation in food is the ticket!! Thank you for doing the right thing for your charges.
I've been making my own duck food cracked corn with calcium I add to it bird sheet of all different kind of like that I'm gonna try your brand out though see if my supplier has it
For the bugs on the property...... Every 5 years your supposed to do a controlled burn. It will get rid of the bugs and put much needed nutrients in the soil
Mine would pick out all the bits they like, thus not get a proper variety of nutrients, and end up with deficiencies eventually. I just can’t trust them.
@@whitehouseonthehill I wasn't talking about the winter months..lol. I am starting to see where a lot of ppl haven't gotten any eggs in over a year and some are saying that the premixed feed ingredients have changed or have been altered to cause chickens to lay less
Gay bird feed I fed my chicken's game. Bird feed and my hands laid every day every day. Even in the heart of winter they laid every day. You know what it did. It burned them out because they didn't get to take their break. They wouldn't break they didn't get that so all about the mouth. I made a lot of money off the a's in those months but still. It burned him out. I had to go get new chicks.
Oh buddy if you was close to me I can get that game bird feed for 7:50 on a 50lb bag I don't know what you're paying for it but that's what I can get it for a bag if I take 10 bags I can get it for 6:25
Why does everyone give the birds pellets. Do crumble! I’ve always used crumble my birds have always been stoked on the feed and I get 1-2 eggs a day per bird. 17 birds 19+ eggs a day. Just saying.
