Kay-T-Hammer
Free Ranging
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I had heard about other peoples' chickens doing it, but this is my first real experience with it. I usually pay about $20 for a 50lb bag of layer crumbles (not pellets. My birds refuse outright to touch them because they are finicky little
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) and I usually buy 2-3 bags at a time, while also spending about $25 per bag of high protein feed, and I usually buy 2-3 bags of that, too, at the same time. I buy 10lb bags of mealworms on Amazon for around $50 per bag, but that is not nearly as often as the other food stuffs. And about $15 per bag of scratch, again not a frequent purchase. The shavings during winter rime for doing the deep litter method costs me the most, though. $8 per bag, and I never order less than 7 bags in a haul, and sometimes all 7 bags go in immediately (depending on what the temperatures will be in the coming week), so I need to make almost weekly orders. 
Chickens are crazy expensive if they are mine. I still have several months left on the loan I took out last spring for the $1,000+ addition to their run. 
