How To Make And Mix Cheaper Chicken Feed
This is a recipe I learned from a relative, really just what he does to keep feed costs down. If you by a bag of layer mash from the COOP, its x number of dollars and is cracked or ground to some extent wheat, corn, etc. If you get whole grains, husk and all, the bags of JUST wheat or JUST oats are about 3/4 the price or less event. For comparison, I believe the standard layer mash (17% or 19% protein) is about $18. Oats for a back is about $12 and Wheat is about $12 (that would be the 3/4 price but its based on supply, when the harvest is in, etc). Note that those aren't the bulk prices either so you can do it even more cheaply. So what I demonstrate in this video is getting a bag of whole wheat, and a bag of whole oats - combined its like the cost of one bag of layer mash plus a few bucks, then buy a bag of soybean meal. The soybean is used to increase the protein % in the mix. Soybean meal is 54% protein while wheat and oats are something like 10 or 12%. Chickens need about 15% at least. So the soybean meal if you add a scoop to the garbage can size mix brings up the overall protein % From there, you by a bag of grit / calcium (crushed oyster shells) and you have a well rounded nutritional meal for the chickens. Overall this should cut your feed costs by 1/4 anyways, and more if you buy your grains in bulk. Note that you don't need mashed grains for your birds, in the wild they can only find whole grains, and they are designed (by God) to be able to grind them up. In their crop (sack of seeds), they have grit, the grit and the seeds sit in there and the grit brings up the seeds (husk and all). So to pay someone or some company to PRE grind or crack them doesn't even make sense as God has taken care of that in His design of them! To see more of whats happening on the homestead, please subscribe to my channel or check out my blog at http://www.micahgallant.com . Thanks for watching!
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Content is good but I don't like how you did the video. Maybe next time you could have someone hold on to the camera for you. Cheers.
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Great video and info. I subs now!!
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PUT THE LID ON THE METAL CAN...AND ROLL IT! It will mix on it's own partner.{hehe}
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Every, you probably already know this, but an easy-peasy way to increase your girls' protein is to have your own BSF bin (or order the dried from Scratch and Peck Feeds (also on Amazon). If you don't want to mess with a full bin (2-3 lbs of grubs "aka chicken crack" per day), simply attract the BSF in a hanging 5 gal bucket in your run. Fix your bucket so the grubs crawl out and drop right onto the ground. Your girls will go crazy! hehe :D
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where do you buy it?
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Great video. But I am not about to feed soybean and corn to my birds, I want them to stay healthy.
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Am I suppose to add the grit and oyster shell in with it??
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I am confused on how many buckets of each grain you used including grit and oyster shell! Can you please be more specific! Thanks
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I have layer pellets now. Can this replace the layer pellets? Or do you have to feed both?
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Or raise your own maggots and grubs. Black Soldier Fly maggots we can raise with all those left over political lawn signs and sun-aged chicken guts. As long as your hens can free range as they plow up the yard they get their greens and sun-based vitamins. Not knocking your feed but it's no different than grain feed lots for cows. When chickens eat insect proteins their meat is more like fish when it comes to health benefit, like when cows are 98% grass fed. Grains are rich nutrients but they are "enriched" as well, ok, but not as good for healthy food. And like a lot of folks have already commented, grains are really hard on the environment. Loved the video, your birds coo and chirp a lot they must be happy.
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Hello Friends please i a concrate video or book on feeding and making both Broilers and layers food
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Sorry , i did not follow from the beginning to the end: Could you give me a summary of this composition and the percentages %? The last question how much it will cost me at the end to compose 40kg of feed? Thanks again for the information!
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Lentil seed can be replaced for the soybean meal, cheaper and just as effective for protien
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How many chicken can feed a bag of feed? and for how many days? Where can i find a chart?
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Never mind
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Can this be used for laying hens
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+Erana Burland said, "I wouldn't touch soybean meal or soybean anything with a bargepole...it's all contaminated. The same goes for cornmeal. Those two products should be wiped clean out of the food chain.."
This statement is total bunk. There are plenty of sources of Organic or Non-GMO soybeans and corn grain/feed suppliers. All you have to do is look. Apparently Erana has a problem with truth because my previous reply was deleted from her comment.
As an example:
http://nongmosourcebook.com/non-gmosourcebook/non-gmo-soybean-suppliers.php
http://nongmosourcebook.com/non-gmosourcebook/non-gmo-corn-maize-suppliers.php -
if you really want to save on feed costs since you're already using whole grains, you should look into fodder. Which would be just taking your grains and rinsing them so they grow for a week then feeding it to the chickens. Turns 50 lbs of dry grain into 200+ lbs of food for the chickens. (or other livestock)
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