Save 19% on Feed – How to Mix Your Own

What you’ll need:

  • Corn

  • Wheat

  • Peas

  • Oats

  • Fish Meal

  • Nutri-Balancer

  • Kelp

  • Aragonite

  • Large Trash Can or Bucket

  • Scale

  • Jars

  • Feed scoop

How to get it:

What’s your mix:

  • 30% Corn

  • 30% Wheat

  • 20% Field Peas

  • 10% Oats

  • 10% Fish Meal (if you’re not providing other animal proteins).

  • 2% Nutri-balancer

HOW TO MIX IT

  • Start out feeding ⅓ pound of feed per day per chicken

  • Calculate the total daily weight needed.

  • My example of 30 birds = 10 pounds

  • So I’d need 3 pounds corn, 3 pounds wheat, 2 pounds peas, 1 pound oats, 1 pound fish meal and .2 pounds of nutri-balancer.

  • Weigh out the daily ration into your jar or feed scoop.

  • Pour into your large bin or bucket alternating grains.

fEEDING IT

  • Scoop out your daily mix into a bucket

  • Soak it

  • Add aragonite

  • Add fish meal

  • Stir

  • Serve

  • Soak tomorrow’s grain