Is making your own chicken scratch really cheaper? Is it better? Well, let’s take a look at what I found.
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If you grew your own sunflowers do you think that would help in the cost or over the length of grow season your labor would it just all work out the same thanks for your videos
i grind my own feed with a small gris mill with a half horse motor my cost for 100lbs of corn is 7.oo
Enjoyed the video. We also mix our feed for our girls. I use to give them kelp got it from Amazon and then they started charging for shipping of 8.00 so we stopped due to the higher cost. Where do you get you kelp from i never could find another place to purchase it from? Sure would like to start adding it again.
Great Video. Looking at you pricing and maybe I missed something. If all your pricing was for 50# bags would your three grain mix work out to $22.89 for 150# or $7.63 per 50# ?
Great info! Didn't take me long to see that it wasn't cheaper in my area. We give scratch first thing morning, laying pellets are out all day, out to free range 2pm. and their wonderful sunflower treat is given out each evening a hour or two before dark then back to the henhouse. Talk about spoiled. Nothing like having 30+ chickens gather around the deck for that afternoon snack. I also treat with flax seeds.
Thanks for this info!!
Hi Patara are the grains equal amounts when mixed ?? What is the ratio you use for your hens ?? Thank You 🙂
you would have to know the percentages of each ingredient in the bag of scratch to compare the prices of mixing your own. you are comparing the price of one 50 lb bag to 75 lbs of ingredients without knowing how much of each you need to duplicate the premixed bag of scratch.
you could always hand separate each grain and weigh them up. lol
I have never heard you talk about grit, I could have just missed it.
I'm blessed here in Idaho, I can get those 3 grains $20.00 for 150 lbs which is 7.5 cents a pound vs. $14.00 for a 50 lb bag at the feed store which is .28 cents a lb. good video thank you.
is that per pound? You really need to break it down to a common denominator in my opinion. Im not sure if its cheaper, but I was curious if you broke it down to whats the costs of a per pound pre mixed verse your mix per pound. I find alot of times the premixed doesnt come in 50lb bags in my area. Bulk barn is good choice for alot of this I find.
curious, how much DE do you use? is there a ratio?> I found my hens didnt like the DE until I took the mixed amount and spread it out over other pails to knock the % of DE down
great vid <3
I don't think this is right. The ready mix will not have equal thirds. Milo content will be low. you would need to know the compo. also quality will be greater, therefore they will eat less of it.
I buy oat groats, for me and my girls. I have an attachment for my kitchen aide mixer that makes my oatmeal out of the oat groats. I cook/eat mine. My girls, well they get them raw in their feed mix I make up. They like their oatmeal too. I have a hand grinder to crack whole corn for them. I have an electric mill that converts my grains to flour for my cooking/baking.
Can you uadd to scratch to make it a whole food for them instead of just a snack?
Whole corn is better for chickens than cracked corn.
I sprout the BOSS and give it to my girls and they go crazy for it! Takes me a few more steps to sprout but I know I get quite a bit more weight out of each seed with only the addition of water. People say that sprouting also makes the nutrients more digestible or available to the chickens.
Awesome awesome video love it
Where do you get the bags from I can't find any at that price please give me a link or something it would be really helpful so that I can buy this at this price
What is simple grain?
Where to find mixed scratch for $7.99 50 lb? No way!
wow prices have gone way up since 2016 its now 5/26/2020
I’m looking to move to Tennessee to retire. I want to raise a few chickens and a few other things. Nothing too large scale. Knowing what you know. What area would you move to? And do you get the same amount of cold weather days as Kentucky or Missouri? Any input would be helpful
I don' t think the scratch is in equal parts, as your math shows. I'm betting you will get far less milo in the scratch if you buy it from the store mixed.
I'm in Central Texas, my chickens won't eat the milo in the pre-mixed, each spring/summer I have a big crop of milo come up that I have go go into the chicken yard and mow down, so think this tutorial is great, thanks.
If you buy a bag of the black oil sunflower seeds and plant the seeds will they grow? I know some seeds you buy won't come up if you plant them. Thank you very much for posting this. I have been watching your videos and seeing how you care for your animals and garden and have been learning new things. I know each person learns when things succeed and when do not. It's a learning curve and that is how we learn. I'm moving from Texas to Oklahoma and need to research the land, wildlife and the soil. I know things are much greener there and would like to be self sefficient. I have a caner and jars and have been working on my pantry. I won't have a garden till I'm fully moved but it's on my mind. I would like to see the land and how the rain flows so it's not a mud hole or swamp in my garden.