Our chicken tractor coop build contains both a chicken coop and a chicken tractor in one! This a-frame mobile chicken coop allows chickens to free range on fresh grass while staying safe.
Also, today I'm sharing our homemade chicken feed recipe! This is a recipe my husband came up with, and it has worked well for our chickens.
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HOMEMADE CHICKEN FEED RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
33% wheat
25% peas (can use all green peas or 17% green, 8% yellow peas)
15% oats or barley (interchangeable)
10% black oil sunflower seeds rstyle.me/+GumDXJa1rD8aUCuLVJ...
6% millet
5% grubs (black soldier fly larvae) amzn.to/42fpqxH
4% flaxseeds
1.5 to 2% Nutri-balancer
If measured in pounds, this comes out to about 90 lbs. of wheat, peas, sunflower seeds, millet and 10 lbs.of grubs, flax, and Nutri-balancer.
Mix all of the ingredients together in a large bucket and feed to your chickens as you would normally use feed.
The grains and sunflowers seeds are soakable/sproutable, if desired.
If you want to soak the grains, you'll need to separate the last three ingredients (grubs, flaxseeds, and nutri-balancer) from the grains.
We premixed the grains in one barrel (large trash can with lid) and the other 3 ingredients in another barrel. Then we used 9 scoops of grains for every 1 scoop of the other ingredients.
(If soaking or sprouting, be sure to only soak the mixed grains, and not the last three ingredients.)
Disclaimer: We make no guarantees regarding this homemade chicken feed recipe, we're just sharing what we personally use with our chickens.
We get the wheat, peas, oats, barley, flaxseeds and Nutri-balancer from Azure Standard.
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