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DoozyyWombat makes a good point. What you typically buy in the grocery store is not a fair comparison with your own birds, unless you raise them the same way. You have to compare your cost with a similar bird. Pasture raised/free range/sees daylight.

How much grain your chickens eat is going to depend on the kind of range they have to forage in. Close cropped lawn has fewer and smaller insects than a lawn that is 6 inches long. What kind of plants besides grass also will have different results.

I think you will find that mixing your own feed is cheaper than buying commercial feed. I live in a farming area and can locally find corn, oats, wheat, and sometimes other grains. I also add quinoa. With chicks I use corn mean quinoa, flax and gradually move them onto the whole grains. I...