7 Hacks to Cut Your Chicken Feed Bill

Not too long ago (5 years or so) Rebekah and I were butt broke.

To help make ends meet we used food assistance, dumpster dived and grew some of our own food.

But even growing your own food can be expensive UNLESS you have a few tricks under your belt.

I learned so much about saving mucho dinero’s o growing food (especially in the realm of feeding chickens).

My heart goes out to anyone struggling to make ends meet, so I’ve compiled

So, Here are 7 (easy) Hacks to Cut Your Chicken Feed Bill:

Hack #1) Ration your feed. There’s no need to feed your Chickens ALL they can eat. In fact, if they eat too much, it can affect their egg production. So not only do they eat you out of house and home, they give you less eggs!

Hack #2) Soak Feed. Just by covering your daily feed ration in water for 12-24 hours will break down what you call the anti-nutrients and will make your feed 15-25% more digestible. That means you can get away with feeding them 25% less.

Hack #3) Buy in Bulk. We just buy Chick Starter feed for everyone and buy it by the 1,000 pound tote. This saves us at least 20%. If you don’t go through 1,000 pounds in three months (grinded grain starts to go bad after that) then consider joining or starting a co-op.

Hack #4) Move the Chickens. Move them everyday to fresh grass, or at least once a week. Begin cutting their feed back by 10% each week until Egg production is effected. Once egg production is negatively affective you’ve gone to far and need to settle on your last feed level. You might be surprised how much a chicken can get off the land if you just keep their ground fresh.

Hack #5) Feed them from the Garden. It’s not that hard to plant more than you want to eat, and let’s be honest for a second… Don’t we actually like eggs and delicious chicken more than collard greens? So let’s have those chickens convert those veggies into protein :)

Hack #6) Food Scraps. You might have stumbled upon some drama about what Chickens CAN’T eat, but I’ve found they’ll eat almost anything. And, if they can’t eat it, they won’t. So don’t worry. Here’s the thing… Just don’t feed them ONE thing. Sure, if all they were to eat were onions and oranges you’re gonna have some problems, but if they just eat a few onions you’re eggs won’t taste like onions and if they eat some oranges, that’s great, as those contain some essential oils that can benefit them a good deal.

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So, hopefully those hacks can help you save mucho dinero.

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