Their Diet
Grass and Bugs
The main diet of chickens like ours that get to range freely is grass and
bugs. They nibble at grass, clover, wild onions, and whatever other plant
suits their fancy. They dig up worms, find crickets, and keep the tic
population down. Our farm is free of pesticides and herbicides, so
what they scrounge up hasn't been tainted by chemicals.
Organic Soy Free Chicken Feed
Our chickens receive Countryside Feed. The ingredients are:
Organic
Field Peas, Organic Corn, Organic Wheat, Organic Oats, Fish Meal,
Organic Rice Bran, Organic Alfalfa Meal, Organic Flaxseed, Calcium
Carbonate, Sodium Silico Aluminate, Dried Organic Kelp, Dicalcium
Phosphate, Salt, Yeast Culture, Roughage Product (organic wheat
middlings), Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E
Supplement, Choline Chloride, Menadione Nicotinamide Bisulfite
Complex, D-Calcium Pantothenic Acid, Niacin Supplement, Riboflavin
Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Hydrochloride, Vitamin
B12 Supplement, Biotin, Folic Acid, Manganese Sulfate, Ferrous
Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Sodium
Selenite, Dried Aspergillus oryzae Fermentation Extract, Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, Dried fermentation product of Lactobacillus acidophilus,
Dried fermentation product of Lactobacillus casei, , Dried
fermentation product of Lactobacillus plantarum, Dried fermentation
product of Enterococcus faecium, Dried fermentation product of
Bacillus coagulans, Dried fermentation product of Bacillus
licheniformis, and Dried fermentation product of Bacillus
subtilis.
Grain Scratch
The scratch we toss out usually includes wheat, oats and black oil
sunflower seeds.
Meal Worms
We have started raising mealworms to provide extra protein during
fall/winter months where insects are harder for them to find.
Milk Kefir
Kefir is an excellent source of benefical bacteria, calcium, magnesium,
phosphurus.. all sorts of good stuff. They love this treat.
Scraps
They get all sorts of scraps, from leftover popcorn to apple cores. They
tend to come running up when we open the door, expecting a treat =o)
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