HeritageGoose13
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This is a thread where we can share our homemade chicken feed recipes. Many people would like to mix their own feed. This is intended to be one big thread where we post recipes. It is mostly for chickens but if you want, you can share recipes for other poultry like ducks or quail.
Please post only recipes that you know can be used. Do not "guess" or make things up. Only post recipes you have used or others do. Give credit to the place you originally found the recipe with a link if its a website or credit to the title and author if it came from a book.
(To be clear, discussion and speculation on feeds is welcome, but be sure to mark it clearly as such. Do not post a recipe if you do not know anyone who has used it successfully over a period of time. Recipes should be for a fairly complete diet, not for scratch or other treats.)
Here are some recipes I found online. I have given them names/titles so discussing them is easier for us to do. Some of the recipes already had names, but I may have changed some of them to make them shorter or easier to tell apart from each other.
Quote: – 12 cups organic, feeder oats (.34 cents/lb)
– 8 cups organic, soft white wheat (.38 cents/lb)
– 8 cups organic, hard red wheat (.26 cents/lb)
– 6 cups organic corn (.42 cents/lb)
– 4 cups organic lentils (.54 cents/lb)
– 4 cups organic split peas (.47 cents/lb)
– 2 cups organic flax seed (1.68/lb)
– 1 cup sesame seeds (2.27/lb)
– 3/4 cup kelp granules (3.25/lb)
– 2 tablespoons olive oil, coconut oil, or molasses
from http://theelliotthomestead.com/2013/06/organic-homemade-chicken-feed/
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And another one... this one, if you follow the link below, says it is a layer feed and not for meat birds...
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One more for now...
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Please post only recipes that you know can be used. Do not "guess" or make things up. Only post recipes you have used or others do. Give credit to the place you originally found the recipe with a link if its a website or credit to the title and author if it came from a book.
(To be clear, discussion and speculation on feeds is welcome, but be sure to mark it clearly as such. Do not post a recipe if you do not know anyone who has used it successfully over a period of time. Recipes should be for a fairly complete diet, not for scratch or other treats.)
Here are some recipes I found online. I have given them names/titles so discussing them is easier for us to do. Some of the recipes already had names, but I may have changed some of them to make them shorter or easier to tell apart from each other.
Quote: – 12 cups organic, feeder oats (.34 cents/lb)
– 8 cups organic, soft white wheat (.38 cents/lb)
– 8 cups organic, hard red wheat (.26 cents/lb)
– 6 cups organic corn (.42 cents/lb)
– 4 cups organic lentils (.54 cents/lb)
– 4 cups organic split peas (.47 cents/lb)
– 2 cups organic flax seed (1.68/lb)
– 1 cup sesame seeds (2.27/lb)
– 3/4 cup kelp granules (3.25/lb)
– 2 tablespoons olive oil, coconut oil, or molasses
from http://theelliotthomestead.com/2013/06/organic-homemade-chicken-feed/
And another...
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And another one... this one, if you follow the link below, says it is a layer feed and not for meat birds...
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One more for now...
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