Layers Pellets
0% GM Ingredients

5KG
£3.99

From birth chicks require a constant supply of chick crumb, at least 6 weeks on crumb during warmer months, and 8 weeks during the winter.

From then you can feed growers pellets, or layers pellets. Feeding corn alone will result in fatty birds, as it doesn't contain the balanced diet of the chicken pellets.

Your average POL hen will consume somewhere between 100 - 150gm of pellets per day, more in winter, less in summer - especially if she has free grazing. (Grass and worms are the most natural diet!)

Make sure the feed is a minimum of 16% protein- this will ensure good feathering, strong eggs and generally healthier birds. Remember, it takes approx. 80% of the birds protein to make an egg...

Grit and Oyster shell - what's that all about then...

Chickens, as we know have no teeth. Grit and shell are used and stored in the birds crop, where they "roll" the food around to make it more easily digestible - smaller peices.

Providing shell also provides much needed calcium to give good hard egg shells. There are differing opinions on whether to use the grit. Personally, I figure if your birds are free rangers and have access to the good quality feed and natural dirt, they wont need the oyster / grit. If your birds are in a run always, then adding a pot of grit could make the world of difference when it comes to your egg shell quality.

So - it may be worth having some in a pot - they''ll use it only if they need to!

MIXED CORN
0% GM Ingredients

5KG
£3.99

Mixed Shell / Grit

5KG
£3.99

Feeding your chickens kitchen scraps....

There are many people who strongly reccommend this, and equally as many who advise against it. Chicken pellets do provide your birds with a nutritous and complete diet so there is no "need" to change their food, however pellet feeding is a relatively new invention, and chickens -man's longest domesticated animal has always lived alongside and eaten as man does.

Try to keep it reasonable if you are scrap feeding your birds

Do.. Veges (cooked or raw), Pasta and Rice, Bread (moderate qty), occasional fish, seaweed, worms a plenty, egg shells - as much as you can!

Don't - raw potato, too much fruit, milk or cheese (birds are naturally lactose intolerant) meat