Homemade Chicken Feed - first time making it!
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- We've always wanted to make our own chicken feed so we would have more control of our food. We came across this recipe at Sawyer Ridge Farm and modified the numbers to fit our needs. My daughter also discovered a strange place that one of our chickens decided she would lay her eggs at.
Whats in our chicken feed?
50 lb - Black Oil Sunflowers
50 lb - Whole Corn
50 lb - Whole Oats
6.25 lb - Flax Seed
6.25 lb - Millet
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After battling Psoriasis for years, I discovered the power of quality food and its positive impact on my skin condition. This sparked my desire to raise my own quality food. So come along with our Family as we transition from urban living to small self sustaining family farm. Learn from both our successes and failures in hopes it may inspire others to try new things. We entered into this journey with no prior experience and hope to provide many laughs and learning experiences. We learned most of how to do what were doing from watching others and hope to be able to provide a similar learning opportunity to anyone else who may benefit from this. Thank you for coming along with us on this journey and we hope it is enjoyable for you and your family.
I'm getting chickens in a few months and I find your videos informative and helpful. I will use this recipe. Your videos are inspiring and encouraging, which is exactly what this old lady needs. Thank you.
Hope your first experience goes well. This feed worked well, but sourcing the ingredients became increasingly difficult. If these are your first chickens, it may not be a bad idea to just start with a quality prepared feed until you’ve gotten everyone settled and then transition to a custom feed. Just a thought if you have a hard time getting all the items or it proves to be very expensive. Our local mill closed down after over 100 years, along with inflation, the custom feed idea has been hard to sustain
@@RockyCreekHomestead thank you so much for taking time out of your busy life to respond.
I appreciate that input so much. I will certainly use pre-made at first with the intent to transition. Especially since I'm a newbie and have no idea what I'm doing.
Such a great video! Your daughter is so sweet 🤗
Thank you! She’s my little buddy. Appreciate you hanging out with us.
One thing to keep in mind, when you’re comparing the price per pound for the pellet feed versus what you’re doing is that the pelleted feed is not actually all feed. There’s a large amount of non-nutritive binder to hold the pellets together, so when you pay so much for 1 pound of pellets, it’s not actually 1 pound of food, it’s probably 3/4 of a pound of food and 1/4 of binder. So you might actually be saving money and not realize it because when your chickens eat that food they might get full on fewer pounds. Now what I do, I buy pelleted feed, which stays in a feeder and is always available 24/7. Twice a day though, I throw them a homemade scratch that is very similar to what you’re doing, the measurements might be slightly different, but basically the same kind of mix. The chickens like the scratch better than the pellets, but so do the wild birds and rodents, by throwing it in amounts that they tend to finish within an hour, I don’t have constant rodent bait in my coop.
Good perspective I hadn’t thought about for the comparison. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and how you do it.
Great video especially showing where eggs may lay their eggs...we have ten baby chickens and learning✊🏾❤️❤️❤️✊🏾
😂 them silly chickens get creative sometimes on where they decide to lay them. Always keeping us on our toes. Thanks for watching and congrats on the new baby chicks.
The intro was just awesome.
Haha thanks.
Your daughter is a very good helper 😂...very nice video...thanks...
Thank you! She is a great kid and certainly keeps us on our toes. Thanks for spending time with us.
LOVE your feed mix! Have you thought about soaking (fermenting) your grains and feeding it to your chickens like that for extra nutrition and to cut costs with feeding them??? If not, I think it will be worth looking into. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve thought about it and I definitely see a benefit to it. Life right now has been so hectic that it just isn’t suitable for me to keep up with fermenting it properly and regularly. Hopefully one day because it would be a better way for sure.
Super easy, i do 3 days in advance and rotating those batch every morning when i feed them. When im out for several days i use dry grains 👍
1part grain / 2 parts pure water
When it smells yoghurt, it’s ready.
Shake your jar once a day for better fermented grains.
Great video btw👍
Im using;
1x 25kg of chicks feed
2x 25kg of mix seeds for birds
Plus fermentation almost double the weight of your total food.
Have a good one buddy 🙌
@@jd6660 are you fermenting homemade whole food?
@@mendy5453 any grains a can get my hand on.. barley, oat, wheet, mix
Bird seeds, corn.. always from local farms.. their the best quality/price..
I nerver fermed table scrap for the chicks… only seeds..
And working on a fodder system for the next winter and for my rabbits
@@jd6660 thank you. I've been stressing about what to do if I leave for a couple days.
Yes working full-time and homesteading is hard. And I'm doing it as a single mom. But it's work it.
Way to go 💪🏼. It’s tiring and a lot of work, but the rewards sure make it worth it. Keep on pressing on.
Looking into getting chickens again for my 1/2 acre. Starting small looking to get some more land and expand. My oldest daughter is 4, she loves helping me out, liking your channel, very inspirational
Seeing the kids enjoy it is almost as if not rewarding than the harvests. I love it when my daughter helps. Chickens is definitely her favorite and fortunately it’s something she can easily help with. Thanks for watching and spending time with us.
I went to good will and got a poll that you use to get golf
balls from a pond or a place you cant get into, They are by the golf clubs it cost me two dollars and i have had it over ten years. Comes in handy many times
Got to love a great goodwill find. We love going to those stores or other consignment shops to see what neat items we can find for a bargain. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for the video. Good info...Your daughter is a really good helper...I mix my own feed as well pretty close to yours...again, Thank you..
Also a golf ball retriever works great on getting those ard to reach eggs..🤣🤣
Thanks for the tip on the golf ball retriever 😆. I liked the diy feed but once Covid came, finding reasonably priced grains became increasingly difficult. I’ve had to resort back to a standard layer feed and supplementing them with certain grains here and there. Hoping things will get back to normal sooner than later. Thanks for watching
Your daughter is a sweetie!
Thanks, she’s my buddy for sure
0:05 your daughter is Mocking you reminds me of my dad an I, I still drive him crazy love him though, your daughter is adorable great video btw
Thanks. She’s a trip, I had no idea she did that until I went to edit. Gotta love her. Little things like that make great memories. Thanks for watching and spending time with us.
I really like your channel I have a small farm and channel similar to yours and I like the idea of your chicken feed! Great video.
Thanks, we’re just trying to learn our way through much of this. We appreciate your support.
@1:27 ‘chicken scratch note 📝’. 😂. Pun intended? Lol. Really enjoyed the video. Found you in a search for ‘homemade chicken feed’. Very entertaining and felt like we shared some similarities. Subscribed and hit all the bells.
Thank you very much. We greatly appreciate your time with us and are glad to have you.
thank you for a good suggestion.
Thank you for spending time with us.
Great video!
We get deer like crazy here at all hours. Thank you and appreciate you watching.
I put all that in and pelletized layer feed too
That’s a good idea. Thanks for sharing
Great video. I never presume to tell someone how to live, but I do make suggestions: Black Oil Sunflower seed is not only expensive but in many circles considered a 'treat' or winter supplement seed for chickens due to the very high fat content (25% + I believe) you could drastically cut your cost per pound by maybe exchanging the BOS for whole wheat or milo/sorghum...Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m continually learning so I appreciate it.
It's a good video... very nice place your farm. I think that mixture of feed is great and you know it's fresh, thanks for sharing a bit of your chickening.. take care of your little angel there..God Bless 👍😀😀
Thank you. I’d love to make the feed again but unfortunately the local mill I used closed after 100+ years and now acquiring all the ingredients at a reasonable price has become difficult. Fortunately we found a local feed company in the mean time
@@RockyCreekHomestead I feel you bud..I know that feeling..I grew up in the state of Washington ,24 yrs. now.. just moved to Cali
My 22 chicks three weeks Old.. feed will be a concern..like u I had a local Mill..
Hope you find a good supplier. Once you find someone you trust and build a relationship it makes the process so much easier. Hopefully I’ll find that again soon.
Thank god for helper Madison.
She’s a good helper, she’s certainly my free farm help 🤣
Your daughter is cute and funny!
Thanks. She’s a character for sure
it is worth the 13 cents if the animals and what you get from them is so good. can't wait to see if you can tell a difference.
Thanks, I’ve been keeping a log of egg production several weeks leading up to at least compare quantity of eggs laid.
U might want to consider just putting hinges on flooring.. That way, U can lift the floor(as one piece)to reach eggs.. White hen seems comfortable laying eggs under there(deck). Go w/what works best for U.. Good luck.
I never thought of that. She hasn’t laid eggs under there in quite a while, but I have had smaller chickens / pullets try to sleep under there before too. Being able to raise it to reach them would have been much easier 🤔. Thanks for the tip and thanks for hanging with us. Take care.
Can’t beat it! If you don’t get enough chicken eggs, you’ve got venison!
Sure do. There is never a shortage of venison here. Deer everywhere! Thanks for hanging out with us.
wow that looks so much healthier than regular chicken chow
Thanks, we tracked the egg laying habits over a 2 week period and will track their laying after the new feed to see if they lay more or if the egg yolks show any change. They seem to be liking it so far.
What crude protien do you think your getting and how did the feed do for you?
What all do you have in the feed you make
I want to try that
It’s in the description below the video. Here it is for easier reference
50 lb - Black Oil Sunflowers
50 lb - Whole Corn
50 lb - Whole Oats
6.25 lb - Flax Seed
6.25 lb - Millet
I haven’t made it in while because the mill that I sourced it all from has since closed down so getting the items at a reasonable cost has proven difficult. I now source a non GMO feed from a provider a couple hours away.
Gread video sir. Im looking forward to make mix grain feed for chickens too. But before i start i just wana know was it helpful or is there any issues using this like egg production wise and chickens health? Keep up the good work 👍
It didn’t cause me any issues with their egg production. They did seem to eat more grit than prior to. I assume this was to be able to digest the larger grains so I would make sure you have available free choice grit. They picked out what they preferred and left behind the less appealing items. They do eventually eat it all though. I made an update video on how it’s gone and basically I’m running 50% the grain feed and 50% of layer pellets now. Thank you for the kind words and appreciate you spending time with us. I’m not an expert but I will certainly offer assistance on what I do know. Take care.
@@RockyCreekHomestead thanks for your reply. And yes they do need grit to grind them grians. Personally i was thinking to add organic layers pallets too with it in form of 2:1. 2parts mix grain and one part layers. My mix grain total protien comes to 13% so if i add one part of layers with it they should be good combo? Ill definitely have a look at your other video now. Thanks again
That sounds like a solid plan. I hope it works out for you. If you come up with your own recipe that works great for you, I’d like to hear what you tried in the future.
What would the increase in eggs be after u did the new mix..tc from Downunder Australia 😊🇦🇺🇦🇺
Welcome and hello 🇦🇺! Overall the egg production stayed consistent. I definitely didn’t see a reduction, it stayed right around the same average.
Where do people buy millet and flaxseed? I’m having trouble locating.
Unfortunately the mill I was buying this from closed after over 100 years in operation. I’ve had a hard time finding it at a reasonable price since. Some people have luck using azure standard if you have a delivery spot near you. You may try looking into it. www.azurestandard.com/shop/search/flax%20seed
3:09 time stamp there's a doe in the back 😅
The feed did well but I no longer offer it because unfortunately my local mill I sourced much of it from has since shut down after over 100 years of operation. Sourcing all the stuff has become hard or a lot more expensive. I’ve since found a non gmo feed producer that’s from about 2 hours away and getting their already mixed feed.
Madison's personality is so adorable (✿◠‿◠)
Thank you, she is certainly my little sidekick.
Um am I the only one that saw the deer in his lower yard?
Was that a deer in the back ground? Haha
At about 3:25 mins
Saw it too ;*)
Haha, I was wondering if anyone would catch that. We’ve had a small buck and 3 does that have been on our property daily for last 2 weeks.
@@RockyCreekHomestead where do you get your millet
i noticed a higher cost too but just a thought . what if it takes longer for your chickens eat this feed because its healthier and more filling? I just mixed mine up so I'll get back
You know what, you may be on to something. It certainly takes longer to digest and is more nutrient dense, so that could be possible. That’s a point of view I didn’t consider. Thanks for the comment and thought. Take care and appreciate your time with us.
Where do you buy your flax seed and millet
We get ours from a local mill that direct sells to the public.
How wpuld tgis work in sustitution of layer feed ?
This was originally done as a replacement to my layer feed. I did a video follow up about it as well. Overall my chickens seemed to lay consistent just as they did on layer feed. Issue I began running into with the diy feed is once Covid hit, I was having difficulty locating some items regularly due to supply and demand issues.
@@RockyCreekHomestead oh ok ill have to try it out ,thanks
What breed is the brood hen
She was purchased as an Easter eggers chick, but I think she looks more like a black Cochin or maybe has speckled Sussex in her Easter egger mix. So we really have no sure answers
Are you still using this feed. Have you seen any difference in the flock and/or eggs
I used it until the supply chain issue created problems. Getting the flax and black oil sunflower seeds in bulk or at a reasonable price has become difficult in my area. I have temporarily gone back to my local mills chicken feed. In terms of changes in my chickens, egg production seemed to stay pretty much the same. No noticeable difference seemed to happen. Once supply gets back to what it was I hope to be able transition back or at least use as a supplemental feed
@@RockyCreekHomestead thanks
Do not feed whole sunflower the chicken can’t process
I appreciate the feedback but unfortunately I believe your incorrect.
I don't watch your videos to see your daughter. I'm sure she's sweet and all, but this is NOT a kids show. Just sayin. Quit watching another video for the same reason. I got my own kids and I don't let them be intrusive in what I'm doing. She does seem to be a little cutie, but this is a farming video, not a kid and family video.
I don’t ask or encourage any of my children to participate in any videos. If they happen to do so or want to then I’m okay with it as well. My channel is mostly about working towards a homesteading lifestyle but is also about family. I don’t view it as intrusive when they ask to participate because it’s learning opportunities for them as well. My channel is for anyone no matter what age if they wish to learn about anything I’m doing.