November 5, 2024

VIDEO: How We Feed Our Chickens~


One of the most popular questions we get! We prefer to choose a nonGMO and natural as possible route! I also love to add natural supplements. We are feeding well over 130+ chickens so budget is also important. See what I do to keep healthy birds that produce the most outstanding eggs throughout the seasons! Enjoy and thanks for watching!
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26 thoughts on “VIDEO: How We Feed Our Chickens~

  1. I'm sorry, but I couldn't make out what the name/brand of the non-gmo feed you were promoting.  Could you please tell me again?  Thank you so much!

  2. I wish I could free range my girls more often but we have so many hawks that seem to fly right over our place during the day, and then we have predators at night so we have to lock them up. They only get to be out when we're going to be out there to watch them.

  3. Hi Patera, thank you for all of the videos you do, they are SO helpful! My family and I are planning on getting chickens within the next couple of months, we plan on just using them for eggs for our family, and maybe sometime in the future selling the eggs. So we're doing a lot of research on breeds and caring for them. My question is would you recommend vaccinating them? Thank you! Kelly

  4. Very informative vlog, having been raised on a farm for 68 years, i have used many of the things the old timers taught me to use. The oldtimers said if you want your hens to lay better give them oats in any form rolled, steel cut, or whole. I do give them corn all year long at different rates, oil sunflowers, wheat, sorgham, buckwheat, peanut hearts, millet, barley either whole or rolled, non gmo soybeans, and of course some diatomaceous earth in their feed and around their house. All the grass clippings and weeds from the garden if the pigs don't eat it all and let them range in the orchard to pick up fallen fruit and keep the bugs down. I will reassess what you are feeding yours to see if i should make changes. But raising 14 distinct breeds of chickens and selling the chicks for 1.50 straight run my 200+ hens plus roosters keeps me busy. Have a great day on the homestead. From NW PA.

  5. Patera! I have a mixed flock, overweight one a rooster and layers! I’ve been told to feed all flock ? Is there any brands or someway I can feed healthy

  6. What can I feed my 7 week old chickens? I’m feeding them chick starter/grower right now from my local feed store. I just want to make sure they are getting everything they need.

  7. Is it better to give them the feed wet or dry? I keep seeing comments about some people … I think they meant they were fermenting it? But I don't know if that's right.

  8. Your chicken videos have really helped me with my flock and I saw somewhere you had a book list for chickens, which I bought some books and read them cover to cover.

    I know you have goats… but I can't find if you have a goat book list or raising goat videos, (outside you home, lol).

    Anyone who can send me in the right direction would be helpful!

  9. Thank you for sharing! You mentioned using ACV to supplement them, what exactly does it do? It seems a lot of people use it but I have heard many different thoughts on it and I'm not clear what the actual benefit is.

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