Whole Grain Chicken Feed Mix | How To Make Your Own
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2020
- Learn how to make your own chicken feed with only 5 ingredients!!
We've had high success with this chicken feed mix. Its a whole grain, high protein option that is actually cheaper for us than store bought. Our chickens lay year round on this mix!
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Here's what you need to make your own:
2 (40 lb) bags of black oil sunflower seeds
2 (40 lb) bags of whole corn
2 (40 lb) bags of whole oats
10 lbs whole flax seed
10 lbs white millet
Protein Analysis:
Black Oil Sunflower Seeds - 26% protein (40 lbs = 10.4% protein)
Whole Corn - 9% protein (40 lbs = 3.6% protein)
Whole Oats - 15% protein (40 lbs = 6% protein)
Flax Seed - 37% protein (5 lbs = 1.85% protein)
Millet - 9% protein (5 lbs = .45% protein)
=22.3% protein
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Hello everyone!! I am writing this as of Feb. 1st, 2023.
There has been a lot more interest in this particular video because of the chicken feed shortage, or chicken feed discrepancies in general of this time. I’ve had TONS of emails and messages asking where people can find the ingredients in this video in bulk.
I have updated the description and added a link to our Amazon store where you can find some of the ingredients under the “Chicken Supplies” tab. And I have also added a few links to Azure Standard, where they have a majority of these ingredients in bulk at some very reasonable prices!
Thank you all for all your support! It really means a lot to us!
God Bless,
Alex
I am wondering what can be giving in the summer time in place of corn since corn helps them generate heat and I don’t want them to burn up this summer I’m a new chicken momma so I’m sorry if this is a dumb wuestion
Would this mix benefit from fermentation as well? I am very curious as I just found this video and going to be doing some broilers. Do you think that this would work for broilers as well? Appreciate the video!
@@budsrwiser448 I ferment mine seems to be good the chickens love it I also put scrapes in (apples, cabbage, etc)
@@sweetsbysharonllc5128 Thanks!
Are you still raising the quail? Do you grind this up for the quail as well??
May 1st, 2023. Been using your homemade feed concoction for 2 months. My 30 hens are laying the biggest healthy eggs. My girlies are healthy and robust.... THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
So glad to hear that!! 😊
how much money are you spending on this feed a month cause i have 30 hens also and what to make this
@i2dreamy $15 corn. 33 blackseed oil sunflower seeds. $23 oats.. $30 white millet.. flaxseed is $53 but like the white millet it last a long time because your only doing 5 pounds.
This is valuable information in today’s world. We miss y’all.
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I love your channel, you are just real, no fluff, no drama, no click bait just real.
patricia hartis thank you! We really appreciate that! 👍😊
love what the two of you have been doing,you have been a great help. Keep up the good work,and i look forward to your next video
Great video - I too mix my own - I got a cement mixer from Harbor freight for under $50 and use that - I mix for chickens, peacocks, goats and emus, so different feed for different animals. But I also mix in certain vitamins & minerals. A little selenium, vitamin E, D B-complex Omega 3 and protein powder or catfish pellets (depending on each species and the grain/ingrediencies I use). They all have their own 55-gallon drum for each mix. I also change it up from time to time, depending on what is on sale. I have found cleaned oats for under $5 for a 40lbs bag - I bought a whole truck load - just finished out the last one recently. I remember mixing like you do, but I must say it is so much easier to throw grain into the cement-mixer by the scoop, mix and dump it. LOL
where do you buy suppliments,? what do you add for chickens?
@@ardenpeters4386 I was about to ask the same question about the supplements
funny I want a cement mixer to mix my potting soil! but still in wheelbarrow for now!!
where do you get selenium etc???
@@ardenpeters4386 I get the supplements (vitamins D, E, B-complex, selenium, phyllium husk, elderberry syrup, honey, rosehip oil, baking soda, mainly at a discount store including protein shakes powder, I grind any pills and only add these once in a while - usually during the winter, when there are no bugs. I change their grain, depending on the seasons (for all animals) - and what's on sale from a mix of: Layer mash (it's like fine powder, so I always add water/ACV to the final mix to make it like crumble) Cracked corn - more in the winter months. Sunflower seeds, Oats, dried cat/dog food, floating catfish pellets (high in protein fortified with vitamin E, D and B) they also get the leftover, bottom of the barrel from the goat and emu food barrel which contains alfalfa, sweet feed and shredded beets. I just ad more corn in the winter to keep their calories up.
You can save allot of time and work by using a mixer. You can find an old one or buy one from Harbor Freight. That's what I do. I bought a mixer from harbor freight and just add my stuff as I go. Let it run the whole time mixing and no need to mix by hand and it's in one container. Once I'm done mixing. I just store it in plastic 55 gallon drums. So, much easier using a 3-1/2 Cubic Ft. Cement Mixer from Harbor Freight. Love the channel and thanks for sharing.
I have enjoyed watching it, thank you for your time.
Wow your spring in the woods is awesome, it sounds so beautiful and relaxing💕🎈
That's a great video. I love these instructional videos. This is the kind of info folks are looking for on RUclips.
I like your place. Always honoring the best of mature. A quiet snowfall, the sound of a small waterfall. So good to see the Sawyers again.
Definitely will try this out in future. Yet again another great video.
You're sucha blessing. Just bought a lil farm and will have my first chickens. Thank you so much and be so blessed sister!
I love this recipe & am definitely going to try it , I am probably going to go get the stuff in town today! You definitely have me as a subscriber!
Thank you for explaining so simple
That natural water environment needs to be reproduced EVERYWHERE. Lovely.
Love the intro!💖
I am impressed with the feed mix, I'll have to give it a try when I get chickens. Thanks for sharing!
Rachel H thank you! It has worked really well for us, hopefully it will for you if you do give it a try. 👍😀
Soothing sound of water flowing, plus big snow flakes two of my favourite things to start your video. Lol she is like whattttttttttt is going on. That is gr8t to do that for better food for you. The bloopers are so good, had me chuckling. Take care of you both. Thanks for sharing eh :))
I love it. Lower cost. No mystery ingredients.
Great video. I’m learning so much from you guys.
Thank you! I love this video so much. We feed a higher percentage since we have two muscovies in with our chickens :)
Thank you for the video, you did an amazing job of explaining everything. I will definitely be giving this a try!
Heather Fulcher Awesome! Thank you! I hope this feed mix works as well for you as it does for us! 😊
I think Im going to start mixing my own as well. Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for the step by step this is what I've been wanting.
I think I need to try this! Love this--Thanks Alex!! -Kristy in the Ozarks of Missouri:)
Wow that's a great idea, especially if you have a lot of chickens 👍
And it's always a good thing to know what's in your feed 👏👏👏👏👏
I loved the water falls at the beginning 😍
Auntie Ann thank you! We got a TON of rain a couple days ago when I shot those little clips. And that’s nothing like what they were when it was full on raining. 😳
And you’re right, it’s always good to know exactly what you’re feeding your animals! 😊
Thank you. This was very helpful and we used your suggestions.
Anyone else want to just stick their hand in that mix? We are getting chickens next month this video is super helpful
If you have 2 do this more oftent u can use a concrete mixer 😉👌
This is awesome, great video!.. I’ll definitely be coming back to this when we get chickens
Moore Family Farm thank you! 😊
Great video. Thanks for breaking that down. I plan to use that same recipe with my birds beginning in March. Keep up the great work.
Just had 9 pure bred Italian Maremma puppies born in So. WI . Ready in 6-8 weeks. 5 males, 4 females. Excellent Livestock Guardians.
Love the intro and the diy feed! Thank you for sharing. I've been wanting to do this for our chickens and since this was easy to follow now I can get started. Can't thank you guys enough. Blessings
Awesome! Thank you! Hope it works as well for you as it does for us! 😊
Great video! I've been looking for different recipes for different animal feeds, and chickens is oen of them. I fee; fortunate to have people to put out videos of how they do things. Thank You.
randy chappelle you’re quite welcome! Hope it works out for you like it does us! 👍😀
Thank you for this video and posting the recipe down below. I keep coming back to make sure I'm mixing it right- I wrote it down this time! Thanks!
love the bloopers, and the feed mix
You must have read my mind!! I was just thinking I need to find out about making my own chicken feed and you popped up!! Thank you :) Subscribed and can't wait to learn more!
Kristal Monteith haha! Good timing then! 😄
Thanks so much for subscribing to our channel! 👍😊
I feed almost every one of these ingredients already to my chickens as a treat at night before bed.. thanks for sharing now I know I can just feed them the seeds. Feels more natural that way. Just have to find some flax and Miller now to add.
I have to say you seem like a very sweet person,you work hard,you don't mind getting your hands dirty,your husband is very lucky and blessed to have someone like you.
John Byais thank you so much! 👍😀
Sawyer Ridge Farm , I can tell you come from an excellent background so good to care for your animals and give them good things. God bless you.
Great job, very helpful.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipe!!! We are new Chicken parents and wanted to get the best possible feed to keep them healthy!! Although we only have 14 chickens, we will be sharing with our daughter who has a lot more (which is how we got ours, lol!!)
I l pi ve you guys! So young and full of heart for the true farming this country needs! God bless you! Would love to meet at a meet and greet! Be strong and forage ahead to the new Mellina! Love and hugs! Be strong!
yvonne brasgalla thank you so much! 😊 We will be at the meet and greet in March! 👍😀
Beautiful scenery
So happy to see this after waiting so long to see you guys
I like your recipe. When I started fermented feeds back in 2012, I couldn't find white millet or flax seed or even field peas anywhere near me, so this is what I ended up with: BOSS, Rolled Oats, Barley, Scratch Grains and Catfish pellets (high protein & vitamins). I had 20-25 hens back then and now have near 100 and they've done very well on this mixture.
What are the percentages/amounts you use with these ingredients?
@@alabamabushwacker7602 1 50lb bag of each, except the catfish pellets - just use half the bag.
You can ferment this?
So you just mix those together,? I don't think I've seen catfish pellets befote
@@organixgirl It's a fish food floater pellet - for pond fish. It's high in protien, which helps the mix, since the corn is so low.
Dang youtube. No notification.
Loved the intro. Love the sound of running water.
Anyway, cool video. Very good information. 👍
God bless you both
Wayne Watson haha! Sometimes YT is a turd about that. 😜
And thank you for watching! 👍😊
So cool! Great intro and great idea about the feed!
Thank you! Stopping the store bought and mixing mine like yours
A portable cement mixer i what i once used, and also used it to mix potting soil. Saved me a lot of time. Just a idea. (-:
Only worth the effort if you put some bricks or heavy stones in the mixer to get some crush on the grains.
Love this! We are working on doing ours as well. Great tips!
Thanks girl needed this, blessings
Thank you so much. We too have been having snow off and on here on our homestead in the Cascade Mountains of Southwestern Oregon. New subscriber. Nice to meet you all.
Love this and love the simplicity of it! Using whole grains instead of pelleted feed should stay fresh a lot longer, too, and maintain its nutritional value for longer. This is something I just recently learned, and I’m looking to switch. Thank you so much for this recipe, and cost/nutritional breakdown! ❤
AGREED!!!
Thank you for this.. While we have purchased our egg layer feed from Stillwater Milling Co we are looking for a more sustainable and cost effective mix. This hit it for us!
Love you guys! Thanks so much for sharing with us! I am much older than you but I learn from you on every video.
Oneal Family Homestead thank you so much! That means a lot to us! 😊
loved the out takes. You give me faith in the future.
First time to watch
Love your chicken feed recipe.
I have 10 layer hens. I get 7 or 8 eggs a day.
Thank you for the video.
Missy Ellis you’re welcome! Thank you for watching! 👍😊
Love it great job,you crack me,up rooster problems lol
It's ok if he crow's it's a farm after all. Very informative video thanks.🐓🐔🐣
Elizabeth Rojas Lol. Thanks so much! We have two roos that like to play dueling crows. 😂
Thank You for sharing I'll have to show this to my wife for our chickens.
Great presentation a natural in front of camera. Love Alex and Jacob.A great couple and a great example to other young marrieds.
Thank you so much for this tutorial-May I ask where you get the barrel liner?
Can’t wait to mix this up for my hens!
I have two chickens in my backyard. Was looking for ideas on how to make chicken feed from random food stuff we have laying around. Awesome, we have flax as well. Thanks for the video! I'll be making my own video on how to make improvised explosive, I mean improvised chicken feed with random household food stuffs.
If you ferment or sprout your feed it multiplies it and increases digestibility. Common feeds you can sprout for poultry include lentils, field peas including black-eyed peas, green peas, sunflower seeds, buckwheat, barley, wheat berries, alfalfa and millet. You can also add flax and soaked rice to the mix. I've never had those sprout. Grains like wheat berries and barley can also be grown into fodder. My horses love it, but the ducks were "meh" on it. So I grow wheat fodder for horses and any that doesn't sprout I typically add to the duck feed as the horses tend to waste some of it dropping it on the ground. Some of these you can get at a feed store or buy from a local grower. Others are easier to buy online from places like True Leaf Garden.
I only feed non-gmo organic. I hope people realize that most corn and soy is GMO. And even crops that aren't GMO like oats can be sprayed with Glyphosate just before harvest to hasten drying. Also, the difference between "deer" corn and "feed" corn is that deer corn can be even higher in aflatoxin. Too much can kill, but hopefully they stay under that amount even for deer.
Great video. I'm gonna have to try this.
Great video. Thank you!
Love the Bonnie Blue too! 👍
I love the ingredients you use- great mixture! I found everything at Tractor Supply except the flax seed, which I found at Jewel Osco, and started feeing my chickens with it last week. :) However, I wanted to let you know that your protein calculation is incorrect. Multiplying a percentage by pounds yields pounds, so for example, black sunflower seeds at 26% protein, 40 lbs = 10.4 lbs. Then you add all the lbs of protein and divide by the total number of lbs of the feed. So overall, your recipe is 17.15% protein.
She shows she's using 80 lbs, not 40 lbs.
Two bags of 40.
80, 80, 80, 10, 10.
Her protein analysis is with a half batch in the video description. If you double it for the full recipe, the protein percentage will be the same- 17.15%.
@@kidlist true. I hadn't run the calculations but you're right.
Is this feed ideal for laying hens?
What was the protein for your sunflower seed?
I believe her calculations are correct. The protein content of any given product it fixed. Therefore you only need to calculate what percentage of the final mix that item makes up. For the 3 largest contents each are about 30%. The last two items are 5% each. Multiple those percentages into each products protein content and that what % the contribute to the final batch.😊
Thanks so much for this video & recipe. With the cost of our non GMO chicken feed getting so high (now up to $0.45 per lb) we thought we may try making our own. Unfortunately with the prices I have to pay here in WV now for the ingredients I find this recipe is going to cost almost $0.73 per lb vs the regular feed at $0.45 per lb. I will continue to look for cheaper ingredients but that's where things stand now.. We enjoy all your videos and are thinking about getting into rabbits.
Prices have almost doubled since the video was made! :(
Yea, I am not sure where she gets her supplies, but in the last 5 years the items listed to be mixed in have not added up to less then 0.50$ per pound in my area. Maybe they are buying a truck load of each type at a time. That would be only way I could see the discount. I go to a grain mill to get my feed as close as direct to source as I can, and still couldn't mix these feeds for that cheap, even when this video was made.
Thank you for this! This is great information.
Great job on the vid. I really like that you go through the comments and answer people's questions.
Deborah Arnold thank you! 😊 I really try to be as personable as possible in the comments. I know that it means a lot to those commenting, and it means a lot to us that you’d take time out of your day to comment! 😊
Just checked through your list of videos - wondering if there is any age limitation on feeding the mixture to chicks/chickens? I love the idea of mixing your own feed!!
Thanks! Hey, I bet if you got one of those attachments for mixing c-ment in buckets you could get the feed mixed a little easier.
Gypsy B I definitely need to invest in one of those. I get my workout in mixing all that feed with a shovel! 😅
That's a brilliant idea!
Ahhh, I miss you guys 🥰
Thanks for your video.its so informative
Awesome video. The only thing I would correct is your protein percent. If your protein percentages are correct your mix is actually 17.15% protein which is amazing.
80lbs x 26p=2080
80lbs x 9p= 720
80lbs x 15p=1200
10lbs x 37p =370
10 lbs x 9p=90
2080+720+1200+370+90 = 4460
4460/260lbs = 17.15384615384615% protein.
Very awesome job indeed!
Even the rooster was harping about it! LOL!
Bennie Mathews haha! 😂😄 yeah, he was pretty happy about it!
I'm going to try this thank you so much 😀😀👍🏾
Thank you! This video is super helpful. I saw your Stillwater Mill bag, how cool! I haven't seen those in a long time. I grew up in Stillwater, OK but am living in Michigan now.
I tried this and my hens stopped laying. I looked at your math and I found some errors. You add up all the percentages, but don't divide them by the 130# of feed you have. The percentage of protein should be more like 17%. Then, the numbers you used for the percent of protein in the BOSS and flaxseed were way high. BOSS should be about 16% and flaxseed should be about 30%. When added up, and then divided correctly, you'll find this mix has only 13.8% protein. Unless your birds free-range, this isn't enough. I've supplemented it by mixing in 30% protein crumbles and my hens are laying again.
When we had a lot of chickens we always bought feed up in Dennison Texas and mixed our own if you run onto a used cement mixer it’ll mix it quicker and more thoroughly
rdnkrfnk yes, I definitely need to invest in one of those! Thanks so much for watching! 👍😀
Sawyer Ridge Farm I enjoy your videos and there’s a lot y’all do that I’ve done before so I share a few tips I once had over 100 roosters in my yard
Great idea. Thanks
FINALLY. I might get some use out of ours, before the wasps take over or we actually use it to mix concrete in lol
My new chicks are coming first week of May! Of course I will start on chick feed but this is good to know for later when they mature. Thanks so much! Oh and we have a Berner too!
Def gonna try this mix next week
Hello Alex! Thank you SOOOO much for this video. I have been wanting to mix my own for my chickens for a long time. I do feed them regular scratch that I mix 1/2 & 1/2 with BOSS. I feed that along with layer pellets. I will use your "Sawyer Ridge Mix" now and get away from the store mix stuff. You and Jacob have a Very Blessed Week **HUGS & PRAYERS** from Kelly and the critters at Piney Haven Homestead.
Piney Haven Homestead thank you so much! I hope this mix of chicken feed works as well for you as it does for us! 😊
Hello. Thanks for the video! very informative. I have a question. With this feed, do you happen to run into any health issues for your chickens? Also, Which one is your source of Calcium? Also, is it not difficult for the hens to eat large feeds like that? I am used to seeing smaller pellets and size feeds. I would imagine for easier for the digestive process in the gizzard, and maybe to store more in the craw?
Thanks again!
Feed free choice oyster shells for the calcium.
Love your feed mixture.and love your Bonnie blue also.Thank you for your channel and all you do. God bless.
Thank you for your support! 👍😊
i like it, i am going to give that a try. thanks for sharing
Love the intro with the waterfall....its beautiful.
Now how long will that last?
How many chickens do you have ?
Have a great evening ⛄⛄⛄
chele michele thank you! This feed should last us a good 3-4ish months. We have somewhere in the range of 16-18 hens. It’s hard to keep track. Lol 😂
Definitely have to try this for my chickens! Question: do you add ever any oyster shell/grit? And I've seen other people add in diatomaceous earth food grade to their feed too, do you ever mix any in? Thanks!
They have access to oyster shell in their coop 24/7
I was checking in to doing a seed mixture. I'm concerned about the difference in her protein level and the levels that y'all are coming up with because that's quite a drop. I'm using a high protein layer pellet with chickens that we got as chicks last year and we're getting between 9 to 13 eggs a day for 15 chickens. I do put grit down I put light powdered lime down anytime anything starts smelling because I'm raising a few rabbits as well and raised cages. I'll have to check further into the protein with all the seeds and see where it goes from there. I enjoyed the video. They all help one way or another.
DO NOT wet the Diatomaceous Earth.
I sprinkle mine in a pan of dry feed every time that I give to my chickens the Diatomaceous Earth.
@@ajalicea1091 you have them eat the DE?
Thats great protein love this ty for sharing
Love to see more diy projects. Good video, God bless
I’m going to try this! We switched from organic feed to coop feed due to cost... but this seems like it would be healthier and not as many fillers. Would love to see if you do this with other animals as well, especially goats!
MacKenzie Johnson awesome! We hope it works as well for you as it does for us! Our chickens seem to love it! I hope to eventually try to mix our own goat feed!
@@SawyerRidgeFarm I'm wondering about mixing bunny feed! I used to raise rabbits. My cousin has a rabbit rescue and if there's a good mix recipe I'd happily share it with her. I know it's got to be expensive to buy prepare in Ca!
If you want next best thing to organic try a Mennonite or Amish Feed Mill.
The two that are the closest to me do not put additives and they use GMO free grain. They say the reason they don't listed as organic is due to the fact the state and federal regulations cost so much for them to have to pass that on to the consumer. Sometimes they aren't even able to have organic feeds for themselves due to the fact there's so few places that do it. Even among the Amish.
Hey, on the mixing of it, I would probably do the following, maybe mostly just because this is how I was taught to mix our calf-feed as a kid, and it worked really well.
Instead of doing scoop by scoop - too tedious for my impatient self, if doing a biggish batch anyways - I would pour in from the pails, either an 1/8, quarter or half a pail at a time, depending on how much of that ingredient goes into the whole. So, still layering those amounts of the ingredients into a wheelbarrow, I'd just be avoiding using the scoop for at least most ingredients at this point. I'd use an old-style, one wheel, wheelbarrow too, for ease of reaching into every part of it & emptying at end. So, I'd mix once when wheelbarrow is almost half-full, and again when fuller ( I wouldn't go too close to rim, or will spill tons when mixing. How we mixed was by using our arms. Just put hands in at edges, and scoop towards each other at the bottom, and back up. If using a metal wheelbarrow with chipping paint, wear gloves !!! Also be sure all bolt heads are flush as possible and watch out for hitting them w fingernails as well. Move around where you plunge hands in, to get a thorough mix. Can be fun ( m/l) for kids to do this ! When mixed well, scoop out into your final storage container using scoops directly, or into pails to carry over to it, and using the pail itself as a big scoop as levels allow. Near end, one person holds wheelbarrow up while other funnels remaining grain right into a pail - much harder to do w a 2 wheeled barrow, but possible. Also possible to do alone, when one gets very used to handling wheelbarrows, but still risky of spilled feed. Do in clean area where u can sweep up and still use spilled feed ;), or outside on grass.
As needed, when making lots ahead at once, repeat process to fill your bulk, mixed feed containers.
If you have one handy you could do the pouring over a tarp or drop cloth that way you can pick it up and dump anything that spilled back in
Thank you for your tips. Never thought of flax seed
Saw this and I was so excited thinking that you were back. Blessings.
Do you ration your chicken feed? We started making our own but I noticed our chickens love this stuff so much that they gorge themselves on it and we actually went through our barrels faster than expected. We have 40 chickens, so I just want to make sure we’re not under feeding them with this stuff since they clear out the feeders by evening
I'd say just feeding them once a day should be enough. I have 7 chickens and I feed them all 1 large dog food bowl each day. That's usually enough. But I also do not feed them this food, not yet at least. I'd assume when I start I'll probably do the same amount if not maybe even less considering it's higher in proteins then the bags I usually do and wouldn't want them to stress with the change in their proteins diet.
This looks like a great feed mix ✊🏾 I’m looking to raise a few layer & meat chickens this year. I have a few questions:
1. Do you grind the mix before feeding?
2. Do you soak your feed?
3. Would you use this as starter feed? (I know it would have to be grinder into a mash for 🐥)
4. If I wanted to increase the protein percentage to be used as turkey feed, what portion would you increase?
BTW great work with the video, it was very informational. It just happen to pop up in my feed, definitely taking a look at the rest of your videos.
I am sorry no 1 answer, i can only answer 1, i use to do pellets only and corn treat, now I fermented: wild rice, split peas, crack corn and bird seed mix, I feed them this at noon in the morning they have pellets from automatic feeder, I started doing this cause my baby rooster keep geting impacted crop, i notice since i ferment, i have to be carefull feeding other things that will ferment too, like grapes or alot of statchy leftovers, I feed in moderation or 1 them wiñl have sour crop, hope it helps.
@@sharoncourt75 what is a sour crop?
@@tracylawrence5258 is like a yeast infection but inside the chickens estomach or crop,if no treated it can kill them
Oh cool , I can’t wait to get started !
Thank you for your great video!
You may want to recheck your protein percentages...BOSS is only about 16.5% not 26. There are a couple other numbers wrong but by what you used the protein content of the feed is only around 14.5% as you have it mixed.
@Rowdy BOSS = 16% Protein (30.8% of the mix)
Millet = 11% (3.8% of the mix)
Flax = 18% (3.8% of the mix)
Corn = 11% (30.8% of the mix)
Oats = 13% (30.8% of the mix)
So (16×30.8%)+(11×3.8%)+(18×3.8%)+(11×30.8%)+(13×30.8%)= 4.298+0.41+0.648+3.388+4.004= 12.748%
So it is actually lower than I originally stated and WAY lower than her amount. Add in some split peas, soy bean meal or fish meal and you will definitely boost the protein.
I think that's looks like solid food, thanks for the ideas. I get 17.15% if your protein content is right. I think you'd need to up the flax seed content to get 20+.
I second that. It is 17.17%
Yes, I just did the math too. You start out correctly but don't divide by the right number. Out of all the feed, there are 22.3 lbs (Not percent) of protein. Those 22.3 lbs are found in 130 lbs of feed. 22.3÷ 113 is 17%.
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Thank you for sharing. Im a newbie on the block and love to learn and know more. great info. cheers.... God bless