They will come running when you shake that bag – but should they have it? Is it good for them? Do they need it?
We love to give our hens treats, but we need to remember that they need a properly balanced diet.
This article discusses everything you need to know about chicken scratch; the differences between chicken feed and scratch, whether or not your chickens should eat scratch, and much more.
Scratch has all the nutrition that a chicken needs. Layer has additional nutrients that help them to keep laying. I mix 50-50 pellets and scratch for half my flock plus a scoop of shell corn this time of year. The other half decided to live out in the barn and get no extra feed, except what the steer or goats drop. All have free range on 30 acers. The barn chickens lay about 20% more eggs. Just my observations
ReplyDeleteI understand that blacks are the most resistant race in regard to receiving the covid vaccine. One way to get them to take it is to tell them whites can't have it. They are so fucking easy to manipulate. Ye ol Paradoxical Approach.
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DeleteIn response to your comment: is it possible that blacks have enough sense to distrust an experimental drug being hotly peddled by every leftist politician in the country?
Richard in Colorado
I don't know, blacks seem to have more health issues than whites. Blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, sickle cell inemeama and of course lead poisoning.....
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I used to give crushed oyster shells when I had chickens... have a pretty much unlimited supply of that.
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