Homemad chicken feed

[familyfarm1]

Does anyone have some easy recipes? Also where do y'all get your ingredients? The chicken crumble I buy from tractor supply just looks so fake and unhealthy . It has been doing fine but I would like a healthier option.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I feel you, have looked into it and ran the numbers multiple times.
I don't want to burst your bubble but it's nearly impossible to make a feed at home that's anywhere near as nutritious or as inexpensive as what one can purchase in bagged feed.
Bagged feed is optimal nutrition. It has all the nutrients chickens are known to need based on over 100 years of exhaustive research and more importantly in the proper ratios.
To make the feed from scratch, it would probably cost at least 3 times as much and unless you have lab analysis, it won't likely to be formulated correctly.
If you just look at protein, poultry has specific levels of amino acids they need. If one just looks at crude protein, it's possible to have a high protein diet but still be deficient in essential amino acids like lysine, methionine and tryptophan.
That high protein diet won't provide enough of what the chickens need but will still have excesses of some amino acids that will be discarded in the feces as lactic acid becoming ammonia in the bedding.

You can supplement that complete nutrition with free range so they can get micro nutrients that may be beneficial but won't be in the bag.

 

[Folly's place]

YES!!!