For the back yard chicken grower is there a "keep it simple stupid" way I can mix my own feed and still hit the intake, protein, calorie chart numbers? Here is my goals, 1st healthy chickens, with longevity, and 2nd using things I can grow or get in my area. I am not to censured about max eggs a year. I have a small flock of 12 Buff Orpington and Barred Rock, 9 week old now, and will cull all but one male at 18 weeks. I am hoping to get 5 to 6 hens in the chicken tractor with a henhouse that gets moved every day on 2 acres. The chicks have been in it, for a few weeks now. This is the 1st year of wanting to mix my own feed and I am using oats, corn, and black sunflower seeds. I also was given a free 50lbs bag of flaxseed that I am using in the mix. I am providing growers mash to them now along with said mix. I found this mix from another youtuber, she is down south, Florida I think, and I think it may not work as well for me, up here in the northwest PA. After seeing Jeff's chart I understand now why I got giant eggs in winter past, with using just layer feed from places like Tractor supply. Will her mix work for my chickens in a northern climate? I have seen the protein numbers on this mix, on another persons channel and they put it at 22% Thank you for making your videos. I am enjoying them greatly.
Is there a layer feed that is low calcium meant to go with a separate calcium supplement? That would make more sense if you keep the boys and girls together like most people do.
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For the back yard chicken grower is there a "keep it simple stupid" way I can mix my own feed and still hit the intake, protein, calorie chart numbers?
Here is my goals, 1st healthy chickens, with longevity, and 2nd using things I can grow or get in my area. I am not to censured about max eggs a year. I have a small flock of 12 Buff Orpington and Barred Rock, 9 week old now, and will cull all but one male at 18 weeks. I am hoping to get 5 to 6 hens in the chicken tractor with a henhouse that gets moved every day on 2 acres. The chicks have been in it, for a few weeks now.
This is the 1st year of wanting to mix my own feed and I am using oats, corn, and black sunflower seeds. I also was given a free 50lbs bag of flaxseed that I am using in the mix.
I am providing growers mash to them now along with said mix.
I found this mix from another youtuber, she is down south, Florida I think, and I think it may not work as well for me, up here in the northwest PA.
After seeing Jeff's chart I understand now why I got giant eggs in winter past, with using just layer feed from places like Tractor supply. Will her mix work for my chickens in a northern climate? I have seen the protein numbers on this mix, on another persons channel and they put it at 22%
Thank you for making your videos. I am enjoying them greatly.
Is there a layer feed that is low calcium meant to go with a separate calcium supplement? That would make more sense if you keep the boys and girls together like most people do.
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