What do you feed your chickens?
Image by Boston Public Library
File name: 08_06_009912
Title: Coolidge’s aunt feeding the chickens in Plymouth, VT
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1917 – 1934 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives; Portrait photographs
Subjects: Animal feeding; Chickens
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Question by sir’slady: What do you feed your chickens?
what do you feed them – the main ingredient (others are ok too) and if you can give a little info on why it’d be great. thanks. serious answers only.
no, sorry: I know you feed them chicken feed. what is your chicken feed made of?! Like corn, or for horses, oats.
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7 Responses to What do you feed your chickens?
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tim2755
November 11, 2012 at 11:17 am
chicken feed
nipopazleh
November 11, 2012 at 12:03 pm
an all purpose chicken feed mix, i get mine from the local farmers Coop.
Pobept
November 11, 2012 at 12:48 pm
I bought chicken food at the county fair and I also fed them mini tomato sandwhiches. And I gave them corn.
bowowgurl05
November 11, 2012 at 12:57 pm
When my parents raised chickens, we would get these huge 50lb bags of chicken feed at Agway (it’s a hardware store that specializes in farmer supplies too).
rhelic22
November 11, 2012 at 12:57 pm
I live in the US and I feed my chickens Layeena, an all-vegetable blend, because I don’t want meat products with possible Mad Cow being introduced to my layers. I’d use an organic feed with no chemicals if it was available around here.
CAK
November 11, 2012 at 1:32 pm
WHAT CHICKENS NEED (It’s simple!)
1. Grains (whole, living grains are way better than cracked, and a mixture is way better than pure corn)
2. Greens (grass! weeds! fresh veggie parings from kitchen!)
3. Protein (in summer, they get enough bugs — but in colder weather they need protein supplementation, including perhaps the following: yellow-jackets from restaurant traps, soybeans — see below, worms, milk, meat — but sea fish is the very best)
iceni
November 11, 2012 at 2:01 pm