For years we've fed our chickens scratch mixed with black sunflower seeds in the shells (2 parts scratch, 1 part sunflower seeds) as their basic feed. There's also a pan of oyster shell available for calcium. They get out to free range for an hour or 2 almost every day. And they get kitchen/garden scraps. They stay healthy, don't get fat, and lay well. The egg yolks are more orange than store bought eggs and people say they taste better. We also give the chickens their egg shells. The only times I've ever seen them eating their own eggs in the nests is when they didn't have any oyster shell.
If there's something wrong with this feed, someone please educate me on why.
If there's something wrong with this feed, someone please educate me on why.