Tag: chicken feed recipe

Turkey Tracks:  January 20, 2012

Chicken Feed Recipe Posting

The chicken feed recipe is one of the most popular posts on this blog.  For over a year now it ranks second in the number of hits.  The first are the essays on the most recent science about the dangers of adding fluoride to our water.

I’ve had a request to repost the recipe.  But, how about if I tell you how to get to it on the blog?

On the right sidebar, below the comments, is a search tab.  The title of the exact post is “Chicken Feed Recipe”–and the recipe is at the end of that post.   There is a picture of a jar of mung bean sprouts up front.  The posting date is February 9, 2011.

You can also search the blog by putting in one of the categories:  chickens, craft projects, quilting, recipes.

Now, as to the chicken feed recipe.  I’ve found a local place where I can buy organic whole wheat and organic cracked corn in large sacks.  (I’m forgetting the poundage and am not going out to the garage right now to check–they’re probably 25-pounders.)  So I’ve been buying a sack of each of those and using about 3 parts each of the wheat and corn–then add  in the other grains and peas in one-part increments.  I’ve got a used big yogurt container and a lot of those BIG ziplock plastic bags, and I put all the bags of grains/peas/grit in a circle on the garage floor–the wheat and corn first as I use more of those–and fill a bag at a ziplock bag at a time with each ingredient in its proportion.  I put the filled separate bags into a big plastic garbage can, and I’m good for several months.  (I’ve got 8 chickens right now, and I last did this mixing before Thanksgiving.  I think I pulled the last mixed bag out this week.)

Remember though that I also give my chickens a big bowl of torn bread, whole raw milk, and raw meat (hamburger usually) every morning.  I add in whatever fat I’ve got from frying bacon or a meat roast and, sometimes, leftovers I think they’ll like.  (They have to compete with the dogs for tasty leftovers.)  In our currently frigid weather, I warm the milk for them, and they LOVE that.  They purr and talk and thank me quite nicely.  We’ve got frozen ground and snow, so I’m also supplementing with whatever greens I can find for them–they love kale–and I will start some mung bean sprouts for them today.