STOP BUYING CHICKEN FEED‼️ IT’S A SCAM‼️HERE’S OUR SOLUTION 🐓
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If you soak the beans for two days, changing the water several times, you will sprout the beans and they become super nutritious. All kinds of vitamins appear virtually out of nowhere. Thanks for the easy recipe for chicken feed that works.
changing the water several times is key otherwise you'll fart up a storm lol
I also soak my whole corn also and mix it with the pasta and red beans
yes, chick peas and lentils r AMAZING, they literally begin sprouting w/in hours.
My chooks get mostly human food, i ferment the commercial stuff w sprouted oats - they're not even interested in that now, go figure. God bless
And they prob can eat it raw, lentils, garbanzo they all sprouts, I'd give them sunflower seeds which is also sproutable
Sprouted beans lose nutrition. People made up something, and got others to believe it.
My 9 hens literally stopped laying eggs in July 2022. Finally I was reading comments on an “it’s the feed!” Video and someone said to start giving them rice and beans. Within that week I started doing it my hens started laying again! I make a batch of beans and rice and feed it to them every day! And kale micro greens that I grow. I do throw them a bit of homemade scratch here and there- black oil sun flower seeds, corn, split peas, oats and flaxseed. You are so right! Stop feeding them commercial feed- it’s like cardboard- literally!!! Thank you for getting the word out !
Grow black soldier fly larvae,it's so easy!
They love sunflower seeds
@@aladrasullivan9018what system do you use ?
That's what is freaking me out a bit. I didn't hear about this feed thing until winter, so I figured it was people that didn't know about the winter slow-down. But now I'm reading it started in summer
My hens all just slowed down and stopped laying.... I will need to try this! I couldn't figure out why, since most were not that old and they have a chill healthy lifestyle.
So we tried this and WOW. We were getting 6 to 8 eggs a day. Started giving them the beans and pasta when I let out in the morning. A week later we are up to 12 to 14 eggs a day. Thank you Lead Farmer 73.
How many birds do you have?
We have 53 in our mixed flock, but only 10 or 11 hens that are mature enough to lay. We have another 20 hens that won't start laying for several months, and 10 olive Eggers we just hatched. We have 6 roosters we can't part with. My wife and I are total newbies. She called me yesterday and said we had 17 eggs!! We even got a few small fairy eggs. It all started when we started giving them the beans and pasta in the morning. They are happy and very active. We got bit by the chicken bug bad 😅.
It's better to give them azola as snacks
HEB has frozen cooked mussels for 3 bucks a pound. They make a great nutritious treat for chickens or dogs. Watch your fingers...
@@halberttorraca3392pasta like corn, is not good for chickens in the summer. They have a hard time in the heat without feeding them starch
My dad is 85 years old and has backyard hens in suburban California. He dumpster dives behind the grocery outlet and gets organic salad bags and feed them to his hens. He also saves the egg shells crushes them and feeds them to the hens. He grew upon a farm in Oklahoma.
Beans are approx 14% protein. Commercial feed is (supposedly) 14 to 16% protein on an average.
So BEANS, yes ! We give our hens all sorts of treats. Celery, carrots, corn, squash, clover. . . When we feed them, they feed us.
Don't EVER rely on all commercially grown and produced feed. People ----- when you plant a garden for yourselves, plant 1 or 2 for your livestock as well. GOD Bless. Good info !✝
I have been giving mine kale, bell peppers! and some carrot peelings. ANd lettuce. They have been enjoying those. I may try the beans and pasta. I also gave them some salmon cat food (My cats wouldn't eat it for some reason). They seemed to like that as well. (it's wet, just salmon meat and some jelly).
Why don't you just eat the beans and pasta
@@Rusureabouthat We do !
Pasta like corn isn't good for your chickens in the heat. They have a hard time in the heat without adding starch to their diet
I only plant my garden to feed my chickens. It’s small as I’m just starting to learn.
This is country boy down home farming. I love it! Our grandparents did these things. They knew what they were doing. Then the commercial feeds hooked everyone to their products and it seems like we were sabotaged. Gotta be said. We should all go back to what worked back in the day. Old ways are he best ways. Good looking birds my friend. 🙂
We haven't been considered admirable, or cool, but we are coming back. My wife's health improves when I cook with my garden produce.
My grandfather loved chemical fertilizer. He always had ammonium nitrate, sulfur,...I don't know how he lived as long as he did.
My mom remembers her grandparents would have this dishpan that would over the day accumulate all the food bits and in the evening it would get tossed (mucky water and all) to the chickens who would be waiting for it!
Ah yes, that is what chickens have been historically fed. Beans and pasta. I thought that chickens mostly scavenged and occassionally got some low grade grain and kitchen scraps.
Feeding mostly grains to livestock increases the levels of omega 6, which can be toxic to our systems when consuming that product. Low quanity grains and natural foods are healthy for them and us.
4 min into this I went into the kitchen to start making beans!!! Thank you Sir!
😂😂 right?!
me too! LOL
Bro is IN LOVE with his birds GOD IS GOOD HALLELUJAH!!! :D
I'm seeing more and more people feed thier animals REAL food with great results!
it looks like this is going to be the only thing we can do because of the continuing of the erosion of our society
@@leadfarmer73 maybe blessing in disguise...they definitely look healthier!
Same for dogs and cats. Dog food jumped to 84 a bag! Everything we've been told has been rubbish.
One day at a time breaking the cycle!
split oeas good protein
My girls absolutely love grits and oatmeal seems to keep them happy ☺️.
I have 14 chickens, I keep track of how many eggs I get everyday, and what colors. They all have different egg cycles. So I ALWAYS get eggs everyday, even in molting season. I average 280 sometimes 300 eggs per month. I give them away to friends. We can’t possibly eat that many. Chickens are so easy to care for.
I eat 300 eggs a month.
We pick up the expired greens at the store. The yokes are orange with greens.
11 hens 7 eggs a day every day. My only egg crisis is I can't give them away fast enough.
If your smart you'll cover your coop. Until all this crap blows over ... LITERALLY
Shit, can those eggs or something. You can can them whole.
Omg. I really didn't take this serious. But my husband kept nagging me to try and now the chicks are addicted. Thank you. And I mean THANK YOU. It is incredible how much my chimkims love that. Henrietta and the nugget crew as well as Juniper and the berry crew thank you too
It is ok to feed this to the baby chicks? We have some coming on Saturday.
Growing up in Jamaica we didn’t buy chicken feed, there food was all over the yard. Fantastic one!
I’m always so glad, thrilled beyond reason when people get together and push good farming. Stop using chemicals Farmers. This is so great!
Amen.
Did you should do that beans contain a toxin that always kills chickens literally always fatal. The phytohaemagglutinin is always lethal unless it's soaked for at least 24 hours and boiled down for at least 2 then drain and rinse throwing the water out. Not Mentioning that the very beginning is going to get somebody's chickens killed if they don't watch the whole video. Hell I'm not watching it all and haven't heard it mentioned once
@@heatherlynnjohannesen9845 Right ON! I just did what the video said and I have raised chickens for five years I was so mad at myself for following blindly. thankfully My chickens refused to eat them. I did a video where my chickens said no way. My research said even if you cook them down completely that to feed in MODERATION. I will never blindly follow again.
@@BergenBounty Thank you for your comment. That was just what I had in the back of my mind. Beans are toxic for chickens and should not be fed abundantly to your flock. You just confirmed what I remembered to have read and learned
@@victordelafuente5466 I was lucky my chickens were smarter than me. They said nope! Go read about this mom.
Thanks for an alternative feed suggestion. For the best eggs, you need to give them fresh greens and bugs as well. The easiest way is let them on to your lawn. The chlorophyll and bugs helps with nice coloured yolks. They will stop eating their own eggs if they get enough calcium from oyster shells or crushed up egg shells. Greetings from northern Alberta, Canada.
Or egg shells from breakfast. Dogs and puppies can have ground egg shells for natural feeding. If dog food went bye, bye some people would be lost.
The pork plant used the scraps, grissle and trimmed fat for cat food producers. Yeah, you are supposed to have cows or sheep or at least rabbits to crap everywhere and let the chickens scratch the crap into the ground to get the worms that come up for the poo. Then the chickens don't need much or any feed because they get earthworms and meal worms. Someone said frozen Japanese beetles from the traps, which sounds like a good idea. People get whole bags of those disgusting beetles hanging from trees. Instead of burning the freaks, maybe freeze them and see if the chickens want them. 🤮
I rekon...chooks in cages peck eggs due to boredom...I've never lost an egg to a peck.....🤓
Don’t forget that they will get parasites from bugs and free ranging as well- Wet summer here lots of birds and dogs getting round worm… It will mostly affect younger birds but liquid goat wormer 3ml per gallon for 3-5 days - with a 7 day break then repeat…. Also coccidiosis thrives in wet soil if u notice blood in the stool. I try to nip these things in the bud because it will contaminate the soil for months or years…
It will also get them picked of by predators
We need a class action lawsuit against monsanto and chicken feed company they own
It's actually literally gonna take scorched Earth to get rid of that type of vermin.
The MAIN reason they eat eggs is because they need the calcium to make new shells. If you feed them an “egg-maker mash/crumbles/pellets”, that has enough calcium. If you don’t, they will eat an egg as fast as it is laid. A substitute is to add oyster shells. At the least, save all old egg shells, crush them to 2-4mm flakes and feed them that.
I started a worm farm in a plastic bin. Now, I feed some of my kitchen and garden waste to the worms. The worms double their population every 90 days, so I can feed the chickens fresh worms regularly. Also, I have the added benefit of collecting the worm castings and urine as amazing fertilizer for my garden. My next venture is to start raising black soldier fly larvae. They are actually more efficient at utilizing food scraps, and they make an excellent protein source for the chickens. My local store sells a 5 gallon bucket of dried larvae for $60!
Same here! I've got a mealworm farm and earthworms! So far so good chickens love them! And about to start the black soldier soon! They seem really easy!
I Just Started A Worm Bucket With my GrandChildren YesterDay!
Also crickets are another good easy protien you can add. I hope to do all 3.
I'd like to learn more about this.
It's so expensive for worms
Beans have a high protein content and that's what the company feed has been so deficient in lately. This is genius Lead. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Thank you so much
Also those same bags of bean can be soaked and planted and left to dry on vine for easy continuous supply of food
Chickens probably metabolize those plant proteins better than we do as well anyway. 🤔🤓🍻
@@sunnybunnyfreespirit I was wondering about that, thanks!
@@alsaunders7805 not true
We tried your way... and it works!! Just wanted to give you a shout out and say thank you for sharing your story! Our chickens are so happy and calm now. Great video
I was given 5 year old lady chickens and they lay happily for me often with this feed 😊 thank you for this video!
I put in a whole heap of seasonings for their health also, lately they've been having cajun pasta and beans with cayenne pepper 😊
My brother loves my chicken food 😂
No, your chickens like Mexican food and so do I!
cayenne is so good for your health, opens restricted veins , arteries, helps during a heart attack, asthma, check it out. I was amased
I live in Southern South Dakota and my chickens have totally stopped laying . Thank you for the video and I'm gonna give it a shot
Cayenne I've ben told helps them to lay better.
Helps Circulation?
Also anything that is hot. Like peppers will kill and prevent parasites
When I was a child my Father fed our dogs rice with used cooking grease and eggs. We fed our chickens rice with beans and or pasta and beans and achieved the same results. Chickens stayed healthy and egg production continued 😊👍
How many eggs did the dogs lay?
@@banjohappy lololololo. Nunyer binnis.
@@banjohappy😂
we used to feed our dog that too! I felt bad at the time, thinking it was bad for him!
Hey genius, check into what food contains the most natural Arsenic than any other food and I bet you’d change your tune real fast! Those poor animals. And whoever’s eating them eggs…
We all know what's wrong with the feed THEY was just hoping that we didn't know? Those HIGHER-UPS are 😈 evil. Great video 🙂
They are Satanic.
Exactly.. almost like all the corporate foods are more poisonous every day..
Yep messing with the feed so our chicken can't lay eggs
Yes! We all need to stick together. There are more of us then them!
@@stevesilver7437 absolutely...
I feel so lucky watching this video!!! I wish all we have chickens knows this. It’s extremely important to know because YES!!! It’s healthy to them and work in a good way to lay eggs. God bless 💙🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 everyone here. 😊
For chickens to lay eggs they need protein, so this is amazing. Also the more greens that you incorporate into their diet the darker orange, your yolk will become think about it all the eggs you buy from the store the yolk is yellow that’s because they’re not giving him no greens they’re just giving him grain the feed you’re doing an amazing job on your chickens look great❤
This worked! My chickens always start laying again in mid February, but not this year. I just made a big batch of pasta and pinto beans, and sure enough 3 days later they are laying! Amazing - thank you!
its the protein. Chickens require protein. They are faster at catching mice than cats and will eat them. Give them left over meat, meat bones with plenty of meat left on and they are happyyyyyy.
It’s more than just the protein, beans are higher in calcium than milk. They need the calcium to form the eggs shells
@@katerinachelmis568 I had to google this and I can't believe it, beans really are high in calcium. I've recently given up dairy so it's good to know I don't have to worry about calcium since I eat quite a bit of beans.
This is a great idea. I quit buying pellets when I was getting 3 eggs from 45 hens in the spring. I make a dry mix of dollar store oatmeal, stone ground cornmeal or grits, and a wild bird seed mix that has sunflower seeds. But it's the same cost as feed. If I do this plus scraps and my dry mix, I'll need much less of everything.
We sacrifice so much in the name of convenience, and corporate power keeps growing.
Back to our roots!
Thank you, friend!
Take a big bucket of oatmeal, throw in some meal worms from the pet store and close it up. Check it from time to time, wait till after the beetles have all finished and you'll have a LOT more meal worms in there. Just keep topping up with oatmeal and leave 20% in the bin, you'll never run out. Hens love bugs!
@@SaltyShaman I've also seen a diy soldier fly larvae bin that I'd love to try.
Thanks!
@@SaltyShaman dry oatmeal or cooked?
@@liza-gu6zpdry, of course :)
Thanks for the video. Please,do I need to cook the beans and the pasta or just soaked in a normal water or hot water? Thanks.
The chickens feathers and coats look so lustrous and full, Thank you for the video!
So nice of you
It is good to see someone rejecting corporate feed - I have long felt this was the way - I love that calmness was an effect - pretty cool.
My dad kept chickens in the seventies, ours only ever had table scrapes and the bugs they could find round the garden. They were also just fine.
That's how it was done at our house too.
That's what I've heard from other chicken owners, as well. Just keep a big compost pile, where you throw your scraps and let them sift through it for scraps and bugs. It also helps the compost pile.
wow, Idk what I'd do with 30 chickens running around the neighborhood.
I don see bugs anymore, tears. (In Sf bay area.)
God don't make any junk. Natural pest control and fertilizer that can be eaten.
My grandmother was as country as you could get. She lived through the great depression and knew all the little secrets. She raised chickens for eggs and meat but also to barter with. She traded eggs for milk that was so fresh that it was still warm from the cow. When her chickens slowed down on laying, she would add some chili powder and crushed shale to their feed and they would begin laying again. Chili powder gives them minerals that they need and makes them healthier. Shale goes to the gizzard and helps them grind their food better.
Yes! I grew up on a farm,and mine did that as well!
what is crushed shale??
@@abtaladil03 Shale is a type of rock. Sometimes found near rivers, its a dark/black flaky rock.
Dried red chili pepper has more nutrients than ANYTHING else
Our chickens ate leftovers. The spices n vege oils keep them healthy.
I'll be darned. I just got chickens and I had heard about the companies messing with the feed. I bought a bag of feed, my friend who has chickens told me to use the bagged stuff. My chicken book says use the bagged stuff, not "home made junk". These comments from your community are better advice than what I'm currently getting. I'm going to subscribe.
Copy nature don't do this. I'd never feed an animal anything toxic. Phytohaemagglutinin occurs naturally in several kinds of raw beans, including broad beans, white kidney beans, and red kidney beans. This toxin causes gastroenteritis. This is ignorant advice. Well cooked leftovers are ok here and there. Forcing hens to survive on raw beans and whatever is just wrong.
Led I tried this and it made my chicken calm too. Thanks I'll put the oyster shells next time and I actually got eggs
I don’t even have chickens but I love listening to you talk and how passionate you are about this subject. You make me want to get some chickens. Good work sir!
Get some.
And you can make yogurt better than store bought!
@@Pieter_Auper I would love to, but I live in a condo and we are not allowed. ☹️
@@ahime937 get some quail! You can raise a bunch inside in a dog kennel, and they go from hatchlings to the dinner table in 8-12 weeks, and they start laying eggs around 10-12 weeks. Quail eggs are delicious, and surprisingly not much smaller than chicken eggs. Quail are relatively quiet also.
@@sharilynfritz247 might be problems to much calcium not so good.
Those are some happy chickens. I gave my girls cooked oatmeal every morning. Plus, I grew culinary herbs- lemon balm, peppermint and parsley. I sprinkled the finely chopped herbs on their oatmeal. Healthy girls that laid eggs everyday. Excellent video, Lead. I'm sure your subs appreciate all your expertise. Thank you, sir. Blessings to you and your family.
Try adding oregano it keeps them healthy since it’s a natural antibiotic.
@@Fritz0616 Another excellent herb !
I grow dandelions chicory, chick weed, miners lettuce arugula wild on my property. It’s all over. If you have excess land plant these and a few others. These plants will re seed themselves every year and you can eat them all as well.
Nice
Thats interesting.Can l feed broiler chickens also with pasta and beans
Right On!!! Thank you. I have been saying this for about a year now “ something is wrong with this feed”. All of a sudden just no eggs at all. Something definitely changed in the food we have to buy.
Jotting down everything you're doing!! Fantastic idea especially the faux eggs. I cant wait to get my property in NC and start my chicken farm. Thank you brother for this inspiration!!
Shows that our food controls our behavior! health and wellness to your family!
Grow your own beans. I bought a bag of beans with 15 varieties. I have 20 seeds of each one and planting them. I'll do a video when I get ready to plant them. I'm glad your chickens are doing better. They do look much better. And they definitely are acting different. I'm glad you found a solution. Thanks for sharing and have a great day and happy gardening and stay blessed 😘🤗🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🙏🏻🐓🐓🐔🐔🐣🐥
Does it matter which beans? I was given a case of garbanza beans and pasta (what? a blessing! On time!)
Do you got gassy on those eggs? I'm gonna ask Lady Lead! 😝 Don't bee 🐝 getting nervous!
I've been watching several homesteaders who have been making their own feed that includes beans, split peas oats and wheat grain, high protein makes sense which means if you can give them your own who needs the feed stores. I also grow my own veggies and fruit so yes, you're on track too. Kudos to you.
That's a genius idea 💡
I feed my pups real food too, cause like you said, the animal feed ain’t right!! Have a good day Mr. Farmer
Thanks. You just made a fan. Add to this that beans are something I can grow to cut down costs, it's a win win. Another thing that will help them lay, though it's seasonal, is apples. I process a lot of apples in the fall and last year I was getting 15/17 eggs from 17 hens a day when I fed them the peels and cores. I don't know why it works, but it does.
My brother you are on to something, I got off the store bought feed and feeding them table scraps. They started laying again but, when I gave my hens beef fat off of Hamburger meat I doubled my egg production. Just thought I'd share with you my friend!
When I had chickens I never threw the cooking fat away. I always mixed it into their feed which I mixed up with hot water and let it stand. They get more nutrition out of it that wasy with the presoaking.
Mine love ground beef is well but for some reason I can't get them to eat beans I wonder if I'm using the wrong kind of beans
I'd love to see a 1 month update of this.
Doubting ?
I agree. It's been a month since the video posting. An update would be great.
Yup
But WHY not? Wouldn’t it just be Best!
My only concern is are they getting all their nutrients with just these two ingredients? I'm watching another video where it's more complex so i am curious.
They're poisoning the chicken feed.
Last February my chickens stopped laying eggs and their liver was spongy and uneatable.
I quit their concentrade and started feeding them only corn and let them roam free.
Once a week they also get their own hardboiled eggs for protein and once a while they get raw fish.
Within 2 months they started laying eggs again and their liver healed beautifully.
Chickens love an open compost pile too. Ask some local restaurants for their food scraps from prep and make a pile. The chickens will eat all the meat, veggies, fruit, and bugs they like.
Great way to feed chickens for free.
That's how my grandma used to do it in Carribbean, she never buying food, and chickens always laying eggs , lettuce , cornmeal porridge as well she give them ..what ever she cooks.. Great video again Mr Lead 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽💚💚💚💫👋🏽💎🦋🇬🇧
When you think about it, that's what folk fed chickens in biblical days and back in the day. They didn't have this processed garbage food that costs an arm and a leg to make these companies rich.
@@dianag.thomasmba5416 Exactly q💯🎯
I'm going to try this my birds aren't laying much.
Mine too!
The current situation with chicken feed is absolutely disgusting, someone somewhere screwed up big. It's even affected commercial farmers and their hens aren't laying, making egg prices even higher.😒More encouragement to do it yourself the right way. Thank you LF for always providing low-cost, productive solutions to these issues. I started making my own ACV thanks to you, and will never buy it again. Even gave it away as Christmas gifts
In fact, you should add the ACV to their water or maybe their feed. I know it is good for them from experiences but don't know why.
thank you so much. the feed is even a different color and texture now.
No one screwed it up. It's deliberate.
Thank you for sharing your recipe with us.
@@vward4871 cant be a greedy capitalist if there is noone left to buy from you.
This man is a legend
Great video! I've been making my own feed for years. Another thing I noticed that increased the egg count was, always having sawdust for their bedding. Comfort plays a factor with these beautiful creatures. I also, live in Oregon where it can get cold during winters.
Just subscribed. I look forward to seeing more of your videos.
What is your feed recipe?
I just shared this video with my mom in PR. She’s been getting fewer and fewer eggs with the feed that's available to her. Thank you so much!
Also tell her to save the egg shells crush em up & feed it back to them. The shell is almost entirely made of calcium carbonate& they need calcium to make strong eggshells.
@@dellaangel thank you so much! I will
@@dellaangel the egg shell has to be baked in the oven first or they could start to eat their eggs
@@daughter-of-christ is there any studies that prove this? How can they associate a egg with egg shells when their sense of smell isn’t even strong and they have almost zero memory they forget each other is a few days
@@dianeespinoza8647 I haven’t seen any studies but I’ve seen several people who’ve raised chickens say this.
Dont forget Lead, you can get a bag of lentils from the dollar tree and sprout them in jars for the chickens as well.
Great video. Most of my store feed is wasted; chickens hate it. I've tried other commercial feeds and still get a lot of wasted feed. Tomorrow I'm cooking beans and pasta (or maybe rice). Thanks and may God bless.
This is nice. If everyone who had chickens did this, a progressive world it would be. Thanks for helping everyone out. Never stop addressing us as Fam.
I've seen a lot of people making videos about the feed being wonky. Chickens hadn't laid eggs since September/October. Somebody is trying to control the self sufficient folks.
My grandparents raised chickens and they always had a slop jar for all the food leftovers which went to the chickens.
I'm trying this. Beans and pasta. Couple ideas I want to throw in: I bet non enriched pasta would be best. And to save money on oyster shell you could just save the eggshells, bake them and throw them in a food processor!
Thank you Buddy. I agree, my girls get the same stuff, black, red, navy beans mixed with oatmeal, rice, grits, elbow macaroni. Plant the beans after they've soaked a couple days and in 8 wks, free beans. Works for me, i had quite a crop of beans 😮
Very healthy looking flock. I raised chickens for a boy scout merit badge. My Granny taught me to give them access to my garden (another BSA merit badge). They would eat all the bugs. The vegie scraps, included beans n corn bread (I grew up poor). Great advice sir, you know what your doing.
Beans and cornbread is good. I grew up on that too.
I definitely don't give chickens access to my garden they scratch your seedlings up they will eat all your lettuce,spinach leaves plus anything green leafed really
Rodley,
Most folks would say you grew up Rich, just didn't know it . . .
@@fjb4932 I know it now. Our house was a converted garage with no indoor plumbing. I know now that it was a great childhood.
It's starting to look like those of us who grew up poor have better life skills.
You’re so right, I feed my chickens a lot of food that my family and I eat and they also free range for a couple of hours 4 times a week. Mine always lay well and are very healthy.
I just went back to 100% feeding my birds from my own kitchen
My chickens get our food scraps, they love them.
Don't forget to play them polka music, chickens love polka,
Yessir! All the people who said their chickens stopped laying complained about the chicken feed. My birds free range, but I grow pumpkins and corn and squash to feed them. Frozen from last year doesn’t matter either.
I buy my feed from the Amish farmer down the road, and I’ve never had any issues with my chickens whatsoever. I don’t buy commercial feed from any stores.
I sent this video to my mother since she has chickens. Thank You for taking the time to help us save money and live better! Continued success and abundance 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
thank you Etta. I hope this helps your mom out
@@leadfarmer73 god bless you sir
Do not use it. It is a scam.
And poor diet.... There is nothing at all wrong with the feed.
Chickens stop laying eggs for a variety of reasons. Hens may lay fewer eggs due to light, stress, poor nutrition, molt or age. Some of these reasons are natural responses, while others can be fixed with simple changes and egg laying can return to normal.
Thank you sir!! I'll tell my daughter
@@jeanhedger3717 Hens may live in backyard flocks for 6-8 years, and most flocks will produce eggs for 3-4 years. The level of egg production, egg size, and shell quality decrease each year. Most commercial layers are kept for 2-3 years as their egg production decreases after this time.
LOL! You remind me of me! I too ended up cooking for my 15 girls. You should add some greens. Grass or weeds are fine. This is what I did for their special treat. I went to Walmart and bought a big block of deer bait. I put it in a 5 gallon bucket and left it outside in the rain for one week. Then I put the top on and left it closed for two weeks. When I opened the bucket up it was full of huge maggots that had been eating the corn and stuff in the bait block. I would give the girls a scoop full of maggots every other day, they loved it, never got sick, and the bait block lasted for 6 months.
You know why they are doing what they are doing. Stay Strong.
Great idea! I like the fact they are now eating 'real' food rather than whatever the mass produced chicken food is made of.
I was waitin for the onion, garlic, and hamhock to go in that pot 🤣
lol
You’re not the only one. Lol.😋
and a chicken in the pot
Hell yea! Make me hungry thinking about it! 🤣
yum!
I did the same with my chickens. I heard PP didn't have the full 16% protein. Whether that was true or not, I know what has a ton of protein...beans! so I put pinto beans in my Foodie, aka Instapot, covered with water and cooked for 1 hour. The girls went crazy over it. Within 2 days they went from laying 2-4 eggs a day to 9-12. Yesterday I got 15 eggs! This will help offset the rising cost of feed. An FYI regarding raw uncooked beans...
Beans (Dried or Raw)
Black beans, kidney beans, pinto beans… any type of dry or raw bean is poisonous to chickens. Beans contain a compound called phytohaemagglutinin, which is highly toxic to chickens.
As LeadFarmer73 said, cook those beans first!
Cook. Split peas. Lintels ??
How much cooking would be required in a crock pot? Should I cook them until they are soft or just for a couple hours?
@@nchistorydiggers8808 soak overnight cook 4-6 hours till tender. High temp 4. Low. Temp 6. Need to be tender.
@NC History Diggers I cooked mine until tender. Same as if I were eating them. I would assume overcooked would be better than undercooked.
Thank you for this. This is the first time my girls have just up and quit laying. Usually come Winter, they still give me a couple eggs but this year they just stopped. I'm getting ready to put some pinto beans on the stove and follow your instructions. I bet this is cheaper on the budget too!!!
That’s great! You make me want to raise chickens again. The f store bought feed in bags is being poisoned intentionally.
As someone who has no experience farming nor does anyone in my family I want to thank you. I feel like this is my calling and trying to learn as much information as I can before starting.
I knew nothing about hens 3 years ago, youtube is great teacher, i hatch most of my hens, and still have 25 from last summers batch of babies
Me too.
Except this video is ridiculous. The feed he makes is not just pricey, but poison. May as well feed your chickens minced beef.
Same! I always wanted to start a farm. I consume all the farming content available and dream of rows of fruit trees, vegetables and chicken coops.
Thanks for sharing this.
Keep feeding us knowledge. 4 goats, 4 chicken, 4 bunnies…. And counting
Now you need 4 mini pigs lol
Hi, can you share why you have rabbits and goats and how you care for them?
I've gotten similar results with fermented scratch grains. You can do either a 3 or 4 day cycle. Just water, scratch and 3-4 days. Makes it easier to digest, get more nutrition, really good nutrition added to the scratch. They have beautiful feathers and a calm demeanor. I will add, be sure to give them their oyster shells, diatomaceous earth, and grit (and water ;-)
oh, and I do sprouts too. THEY love sprouts
@chelliosrgs1762 fermented chicken scratch is super easy. I think using 1 Quart ball jars is a good amount for 10 chickens (if they have full time access to layer feed).
Day 1 fill quart 2/3rds with a good quality scratch (I use non gmo organic). Then fill it up with water, stir and top off with water. I just take to lid (no rim) and write 1 on top.
Day 2, stir contents in jar with 1 on top and top of water, fill second Quart 2/3rds with scratch, and do the same filling with water, stirring, topping off with water. Now take lid marked 1 and place it on the new jar you just did, and write 2 on asecond lid and place on the jar you started with on day 1.
Day 3, stir contents with 2 on lid and top off with water, stir contents with 1 on lid and top off with water. Take a 3rd Quart jar and fill it 2/3rds with scratch, fill with water, stir and top off with water. Now move lid with 1 on it to this new jar, and move jar with 2 on it to the jar without a lid, write 3 on a new lid and place it on the jar without a lid.
Day 4, you now have a fermenting jar of scratch in jar labeled 3. Drain it, and feed to the chickens (they will LOVE getting this treat every day and look forward to it).
Simply feed them.contents of jar with kid 3, advance the other jar lids (lid 3 goes on where lid 2 is then lid 2 goes where lid 1 is, and lid 1 goes on the newly created jar).
I use the same stick/spoon to stir, each time starting with the oldest going to the newest (to spread older fermentation bits into newer ones to help give them a boost)
@chelliosrgs1762 did you want to know how to ferment chicken scratch or cabbage into sauerkraut? My post was mainly about chickens, so I answered you that way. However, rereading your comment, were you asking how to make sauerkraut? I regularly make sauerkraut, it is VERY easy to make and very yummy..
You will need Ball fermenting lids (2 pack for about $6) each one had a lid, a spring, and a "burper".
Also need sea salt with no iodine and at least one head of cabbage.
Set aside one of the big exterior leaves, and Thinly sliced the cabbage. Weigh it precisely (I use grams for this), now multiply 0.02 times the weight of cabbage (or 2%) to find out how much salt to add.
Weigh the sea salt to get to the Wright you just calculated. Now in a big bowl add layers of sliced cabbage and some salt until you have all the salt and cabbage in the bowl. Squish with your hands and fists the cabbage and salt. You will soon see a bunch of liquid forming in the bowl which is your brine. After 5 minutes or so it should be mixed enough (you want to mix and squish the cabbage really well).
Stuff cabbage and brine into sanitized Ball jars and pack really tight until there is no air bubbles and there is liquid above the cabbage.
Fill as many as you have cabbage/brine.
Now take that leaf you set aside and cut a piece that you can place on top of the brine in each jar and put your fermenting lid on which the spring will push against the leaf and keep the cabbage under the brine.
3 weeks later you have wonderful saurkraut
What does DE do for the birds?
@@WakeywhodatIt keeps them parasite free.
I have been watching you for years. I finally got my chickens today. I remembered this exact video. Your video came up in my feed today.
I ran out of feed early this month and feed my silky chicks rice and garbanzo beans and they love it and you are right it really has saved on water. Less bickering too! So glad you made this video for affirmation.
The government is screwing with the feed. For all farm animals. THEY CANT CONTROL US IF WERE SELF SUSTAINABLE. good job sir
I don't even own chickens (yet) but I'm so happy I came across your video!! Thank you!
Two hens 0:33 that were given to me for not laying, last 16 days I've had two eggs everyday oatmeal spinach slice of bread for breakfast organic scratch and a handful of mealworms water
One video, and I have decided to binge your channel. Awesome! You are my kind of people.
Wow that is crazy I was giving mine tractor supply feed They all stopped laying eggs and they fight over the food almost like there's nothing in it and that stuff's expensive. I got to say this is phenomenal. 👍 New subscriber here.
Same here. No more
Same here! We've been feeding them TCS feed for 2 years now. They use to produce eggs like no other. They all stopped laying last summer, they recently " resumed" not really 1 to 2 eggs from a 11 bird flock every few days, and our duck too. Horrible! My flock was better off with the Walmart poultry feed "Vibrant Life" lol
Even if it’s a few dollars more it seems worth it! It’s providing Real Food and taking back control from greedy corporations. Win Win!!!❤
That will be MUCH cheaper than commercial feed.
Love you guys
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this tip with us 🙏❤️ and my family and I are going to try this on our lovely birds too. Once we get this done, I'll come back to let you know how it went for us. 🎉😊 God bless 🙏❤️
Thank you for this video. I just have 3 backyard chickens and was considering having to rehome them because I couldn't afford to get a bag of feed for them. It's been getting really financially hard. This will help so much! Thank you thank you, your video is a God sent. ❤🙏
Thank you and God bless you sir.
Our pleasure!
Thank you for this video I knew something had to be wrong because both of my hens have completely stopped laying. I believe they are manipulating the feed in some sort of way
I don’t know what’s going on but I DO KNOW that don’t want any part of what they are selling. Lol
I'm new to chickens. Mine should be starting to lay soon, however, the layer feed I'm using, they don't want any of it, I had already started giving them scraps, rice, beans, fruit they go crazy over it.
Lead, I like that feeder, did you make it?
Thank you for sharing!
This is genius. Humanity at its best. Thanks for the tip
I just saw this video about a week ago and I want to say thank you I fed pinto beans that I fermented and rice and when I didn't have the rice I had pinto beans and pasta My black hand who had not been laying for over a month and a half laid the most beautiful egg after being on this stuff for a week thanks again information was great
I was watching a woman give her chickens sprouted lentils that she bought at the market and sprouted in a dish at home , she said they love them and it is really good for them 😊
You're a genuine, chicken food is designed to create an egg shortage, a control game we're all aware of in todays world, thank you for sharing this
Truth Sistah!!!!..
Exactly my brother's got 14 chickens and they don't lay I have two and I get 2 a day they're flabergasted
Hey man, I heard a rumor that they are putting something in the feed that stops the hens from laying eggs. I'm a first-time hen owner, and I was assuming that it was just because it was winter. I started chopping up kitchen scraps and sure enough they started laying. Numerous amount of farmers and. Back yard hen owners had the same problem. I'm definitely going to try this. Thank you
Looking to raise chickens for me and my wife in Brazil. This is just amazing, thank you for the advice.
Thanks for sharing. I’m doing this also now. My chicken haven’t molted or stopped laying. I add rice or pasta or a couple cups of scratch to the batch. They need the carbs and protein to keep warm in the winter:)
Wow, great video! Our chickens had stopped laying - NOT 1 egg in months. We switched to using goat feed from a local hay and grain company that mixes their feed and we're averaging 12+ eggs a day again. I'm going to try the beans and pasta!! Great idea and thank you - I LOVE your videos!!
This is very interesting and sounds like a good alternative, although I am not having a problem with my chickens laying eggs, I get close to 40 a day with 60 hens, I will see if it is cost-effective for me. Thank you for sharing your solution with us.
what feed do you use?
@@FreshGrey-pm4vw I use TS feed mostly, mixed grains and 16% pellets but I also purchase 20% feed for my ducks, turkeys, and guineas from my local grain store. I mix it 50/50. I built my houses out of green panels which allow light in day and night which might also play a factor in their egg laying.
Thank you. Truly, thank you. This is how pappy would have done. Too many people forgot the old tricks. Glad you took the time to innovate and share your findings. Those are some beautiful birds. ❤
Good alternates to commercial feed are oatmeal, grits, rice, and I'll even feed mine back their own eggs. And all of this is good for them.
I've been using Nutrena layer pellets and all my kitchen scraps and leftovers. My chickens never stop laying. They are very happy girls!
Wow! I’m definitely going to give this a try! The price of grain has risen so much in the last two years, per kilogram dried pinto beans and pasta are the same price, and once they’re boiled per kilogram they work out cheaper than dry grains.
Thank you for this tip.
Sunny greetings from South Spain 🌞
And beans are over 20% protein!!!
I starting sprouting all the feed for my chickens, goats, and donkey. You are so correct they were suffering, bloated and prone to parasites. Now after a year of fresh sprouts and pasture they are all healthy and gorgeous.
My plan (getting chickens in the future) was to feed them like Paul Gauchi feeds his chickens. He feeds them all his garden waste, which means fresh veggies from an over abundant supply. I will definitely be making my birds some beans.
Veggies alone are not enough, they need protein too.
@@johanna006 You can get all the essential amino acids from veggies alone. You can get all the protein you need from veggies. The science is on my side here.
Of course, if you don't believe me, just ask the cows. They get pretty big on veggies alone. Remember, they eat grass. When we feed them things they do not eat in nature, they get "mad." Literally! (Mad Cow Disease.)
But, thanks for your comment!
First time chicken care taker here. I do feed my girls chick feed. I also feed them veges from my garden and grow herbs for them to eat as well. Occasionally they will get salmon, shrimp or chicken LOL sometimes scrambled eggs too. Anyhow - My hope is in the future to completely stop with the chick feed and just feed all natural. I guess now I'll have to cook some beans and see how they like that.
@@jennifertheobald9823 It really seems like they probably will, and I can't be more excited. He cooked it with the rice, and maybe I'll try that, too.
I watch a lot of Paul Gauchi's (sp?) Back to Eden garden tours, and he feeds them lots of veggies, but they are his workers. They make his compost. And, because of all the "mulch" he feeds them (fresh pickings from an over abundant garden), a lot of bugs are attracted, and that is how his chickens get their protein.
I am just over 2 years into growing my food forest (in Tucson, AZ...Sonoran Desert...challenging) and will not get chickens until I am producing enough greens to feed them year round. I also grow grains like Sorghum, Millet, and Sunflowers (all from cheap bird seed). I love watching the wild birds land on and eat my sorghum! I grow my bird feeders! LOL
But, loving my chickens means not getting them when there is any risk of not being able to properly feed them. Maybe in a couple of years. I can't wait!
Best of luck to you (and to all) in their food growing endeavors!
@@busker153I grew up on a farm. We had a huge garden and keep a bucket in kitchen with our table scraps. Potatoe peels, lettuce, all the stuff they could eat. This was their main diet. We did give them a little grain too but it was from local farmers and our field. 30 years ago things were different. We never had any issues with chickens laying eggs. It was not common unless they were sick. Even in Michigan winters we got tons of eggs.
Thank you for posting this. I switched feed 3 times before I figured out Purina was making most all the feed.
Purina = Nestle they were the ones making the dog food that was killing the dogs nasty corporations just imagine what the put in the human food
They are messing with the dog and cat food as well.. .My animals will not eat it.
Yeah, I have noticed that my cats aren't eating like they used too but it's the same feed brand we have been getting that they loved up until a week or so ago.
@@cynthiabourgeois5254 exactly.. my dogs have ate the same food for years. Suddenly stopped eating. Other friends and even strangers at Walmart and Costco have told me the same thing.. as we stare dumbfounded on what dog food to buy. I've heard they are putting birth control in the food. Purina is being sued.
@@katarascal3183 Purina killed my cat a year and half ago, his bladder was flull of crystals my vet could not flush out, I will never use purina again
We started adding in beans and pasta as you suggested. They love it! And in our area where it's so cold, it's helping keep their energy up. Great ideas and content- thank you!
To keep them warm during the winter add cooked grits, corn, corn meal for polenta to your recipe. They are thermal foods that keep the body warm. Winter is a great time to give them Sunflowers ,also a great thermal food.
Thanks Cousin. Even though this is a year old, I hear you on the feed thing. Back to corn, oats and black oil sunflower seeds. Gonna give the beans a try. Thanks again.
Thanks for the tip. I cooked up a quick hot meal of macaroni and canned beans for my young pullets to help them warm up in this cold blast this morning. They loved eating it, and i love that i know they will be hydrated in these temps.