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Recipes for homemade layer chicken feeds

Once your chicks grow up and start to lay, you want to change them off the homemade starter/grower feeds and onto laying feeds with 16 or 17% protein.  Once again, I'm listing several choices so that you get an idea of how to put together your own feed recipe.  The numbers in the chart indicate a percent of the recipe by weight --- to make a hundred pounds of feed, just pretend those numbers are in pounds.


 Generic  - 15-18% protein
 Modern - 17% protein
 Modern (no alfalfa) - 17% protein
 High corn - 15% protein
 No soybeans - 13% protein
Corn (shelled or meal)
48.25
 48.25
 60
 53.5
Soybeans (roasted or meal)
30
 30
 8
Oats
5
 10

Alfalfa meal (can be eliminated in on fresh pasture.)
 4
 5
2.5
 5
Fish meal and/or meat meal
 3


7.5
Aragonite, ground limestone, marble, or oyster shells  (for calcium)
 3
 8.75
 8.75
 6.35
 3
Poultry nutri-balancer
3
 3

Combination of corn, milo, barley, oats, wheat, and/or rice
 53.5



Wheat bran, mill feed, rice bran, and/or milling byproducts
 17



Soybean meal, peanut meal, cottonseed meal, safflower meal, and/or sesame meal
 15



Yeast and/or milk powder (for vitamins)
 2

3
 2.5
Salt with trace minerals (trace mineral salt or iodized salt supplemented with 1/2 oz. of managanese sulfate and 1/2 oz. of zinc oxide.)
 0.5

0.4
 0.5
Bone meal and/or deflourinated dicalcium phosphate
 2



Wheat middlings


15
Wheat



30
Cod liver oil



1
Maine herring meal (65% protein)


3.75
Meat and bone meal (47% protein)


1
Kelp meal


0.6


Stay tuned for the next post about protein content --- this is the one that will really help you make up your own feed.  Meanwhile, check out our poop-free, automatic chicken waterer.


This post is part of our Homemade Chicken Feed series.  Read all of the entries:


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