If you’re raising chickens for meat or eggs, this all-in-one feed is an ideal solution. Packed with the necessary protein for strong eggshells and vibrant feathers while being free from harmful chemicals.
This chicken feed is designed specifically for adult laying hens, providing essential calcium and amino acid-rich nutrition to support optimal egg production and boost egg quality. Furthermore, probiotics and omega fatty acid supplements promote gut health for maximum performance and maximum egg output.
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Natural Foraging Behavior
Chickens in the wild are social birds who live in flocks under a social hierarchy known as the pecking order. Chickens spend most of their day foraging for food by digging up insects and seeds that they find interesting, with this process known as foraging occurring more or less continuously throughout their day.
Factory farms feed chickens high-protein commercial feed with few or no vegetables, causing negative impacts on the environment and using up land that could otherwise be used to grow food for humans. Furthermore, this diet often results in abnormal behaviors among chickens such as feather pecking and cannibalism.
Add greens to their diet in order to encourage natural foraging behavior from your chickens and ensure maximum protein, vitamins and mineral intake from their foraging efforts. A quality poultry seed mix contains hardy perennials as well as self-seeding annuals that contain proteins, vitamins and minerals such as barrel medic, bok choy, chicory dandelion fennel lucerne silverbeet.
Non-GMO
Non-GMO chicken feed can provide your flock with access to nutritious grains while protecting it from exposure to hormone disruptors or antibiotics found in conventional feed.
Organic non-GMO feed often includes animal proteins like fishmeal that provide essential amino acids such as methionine, lysine and threonine; this makes chick starter feed particularly suitable as its protein requirements tend to be greater than other varieties of chicken feed.
Scratch and Peck Feeds Organic Layer Feed is an outstanding non-GMO chicken feed option that will give your flock all of the vitamins, minerals, proteins, and omega oils they require for optimal health and wellbeing. Free from corn and soy ingredients and featuring grains which encourage natural foraging behaviors – it makes an ideal solution for raising happy hens!
Organic
This organic chicken feed is ideal for egg laying hens as it contains extra nutrients that promote strong shells and darker yolks in their eggs. In addition, calcium and other minerals contribute to strong bones. Furthermore, this non-GMO and soy free chicken food can be fed dry or fermented.
At its core, organic feed benefits chickens and humans alike by not containing harmful chemicals or additives that may lead to health issues for both. Furthermore, its conservation benefits extend further; no runoff or leach into the environment due to no leaching into soil and water sources shared with farm land from it.
Organic chicken feed comes in pellet form to minimize waste and dust production while aiding with digestion. Furthermore, fermenting can aid with its digestion process.
Easy to Prepare
Chickens require a balanced diet that contains carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals in order to remain healthy and productive. Making your own poultry feed allows you to control costs while assuring that your flock receives all necessary nutrition. Unfortunately, however, creating your own poultry food requires both complex and expensive processes as well as knowledge of chicken nutrition.
Chicken feed comes in various forms, from mash and crumble to pellets. Pellets are small cylinders baked and hardened in an oven that contain the essential nutrients for certain stages in your flock’s development, such as baby chicks or laying hens.
Convenient to Store
When purchasing a bag of feed, it typically comes in one large, standard-sized bag that should last a considerable length of time depending on how many chickens and where you store it. It is essential to store it in its original bag as this eliminates confusion regarding type (mash, pellets grains or crumbles) as well as whether or not it should be fed to chicks, growers, layers, roosters or broilers.
Second, storing it in bags helps prevent moisture from spoiling it and leading to molds or fungal infections in your feed. Plastic or wooden bins also protect from rodent infestation, as these creatures could wreak havoc with your bag before you have even had the chance to use it!
