Chickens have a very long list of things that they can eat and I am now officially a chicken farmer.
I'm trying to think of everything possible for alternative food sources so would love to hear your ideas.
My mom said when she was little her & her sisters would heard their young turkeys across the fields to get lots of grasshoppers, etc.
One that I came across on web was taking any kind of meat/fish scraps you end up with and using them to grow maggots for your chickens. Free protein source using a waste product. Just go to Youtube and type in Maggot Bucket...
another was putting buckets of water under lights to catch bugs in it at night.
I'm also planning on letting them at the worms when planting/harvesting in the garden to get lots of worms.
I'm trying to think of everything possible for alternative food sources so would love to hear your ideas.
My mom said when she was little her & her sisters would heard their young turkeys across the fields to get lots of grasshoppers, etc.
One that I came across on web was taking any kind of meat/fish scraps you end up with and using them to grow maggots for your chickens. Free protein source using a waste product. Just go to Youtube and type in Maggot Bucket...
another was putting buckets of water under lights to catch bugs in it at night.
I'm also planning on letting them at the worms when planting/harvesting in the garden to get lots of worms.