Feeding Chickens? Stop Until You’ve Read These 5 Surprising Rules for Healthy Hens
Gone are the good ol’ days of farm kids walking around the chicken coop with a slop bucket, haphazardly throwing kitchen scraps at the hungry Read More
Category: Feeding Chickens
How to Use Probiotics to Keep Chickens Healthy
by K.J. Theodore of ShagbarkBantams.com What the heck are probiotics? PROBIOTICS are a dietary supplement that increase the population of the ‘good’ bacteria (micro flora), Read More
Feeding Chickens Supplements
Humans take daily vitamin supplements. Just like you, your backyard chickens may need vitamin and mineral feed supplements too! Common feed supplements include calcium, grit, Read More
A Guide to Formulating Rations and Making Chicken Feed
The average chicken will eat hundreds of pounds of feed in its lifetime. Although many people buy their chicken feed, some hobbyists prefer to have Read More
A Guide to Giving Your Layer Hens Enough Calcium
Did you know that a chicken egg’s eggshell is a whopping 94 percent calcium carbonate? Thus, when your egg-laying backyard chickens are not getting enough Read More
A Guide to Feeding Hens
In its most recent industry report, the United Egg Producers in the United States reported that the average American eats approximately 246 eggs per year. Read More
A Guide to Feeding Chickens
Your backyard chickens need to eat a balanced, nutrient-rich diet so they can experience optimal growth, weight gain, egg production and immunity from various poultry Read More