A Guide To Chicken Feed

If you're going to keep chickens, the best way to feed them is to use a pellet, which you can get from any local country store that provides pony food, or anything like that. They will usually have a good range of poultry food. For your young chickens, you'd use a grower's pellet.

For an older chicken, if it's producing eggs, you'd use a layers pellet. Probably mix this in with some mixed corn as well, but make sure at least two thirds of their diet was the pellet that was required. As I say, for youngsters, start them off on a chick crumb, which again you can get from most country stores.

The best place to acquire chicken food is usually from somewhere that supplies horse food or horse bedding, or anything like that. They would usually have a good range of poultry food there. You've got your chick crumbs for the young birds, grower's pellets as they're getting bigger, and then layers pellets.

Or just a conditioner, a finisher, or something like that, if you're not interested in the egg production. But if you're into the egg production, then a layers pellet is what you'll require. You feed your chickens, probably best, twice a day.

They'll also eat any household leftovers, tips, bits, toast. Virtually everything that you throw out of the kitchen, normally your chickens will eat, and this is a good supplement to their diet and also saves on the cost for you. You feed them twice a day, as I said.

Probably feed them pellet in the morning. If they've eaten everything up, then a bit of mixed wheat or something different in the evening, just to fill them up before they go to sleep. The wheat takes longest to digest, so therefore having a feed of wheat last thing at night is the best thing for the bird.

It's then got a full stomach all night. And that's a quick guide to chicken feed. .