How many times have we heard someone’s salary described as “chicken feed”? One might think that chicken feed were cheap. It is possible to feed chickens a healthy diet inexpensively, but that does not mean feeding chickens the equivalent of garbage.
Chickens need protein and minerals for growth and egg development. A poor diet will result in poor quality eggs, and a decline in the health of your birds. How much feed your chickens will go through depends on how they are housed. Free range chickens need less feed then chickens who are caged and fed, and free range chickens are better able to supplement their diets with foraging. A flock of twenty to twenty five chickens who are free range raised will go through about a third of a gallon of feed daily.
Ensure that the feed they are eating is made of quality ingredients. A good quality feed will cost about ten dollars for fifty gallons. That comes to about six cents a day to feed a flock of 20-25 birds. Supplementing that diet with table scraps and greens grown where the chickens can forage for them will give the birds a well balanced diet with all the minerals they need to stay healthy and produce nutritious eggs.
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