Nona Urbiz
In the Brooder
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What recipe or quantity of each to you mix for feeding? is there a percentage of each you recommend?I buy whole grain at the feed mill. Corn, oats, wheat, sunflower seeds. The whole wheat cost me $5.70 per 25#. That's 22.8 c per pound. The oats were 24.4 c per pound. The corn was even cheaper. You can also grow red wiggler worms in a box so the chickens have them over the winter when they can't forage. The worms will eat your table scraps, so once you buy a box you never have to buy them again.
If you soak the grains for 3 days before feeding, the fermenting process will destroy the anti-nutrients, making the grain higher in digestible nutrients.