I noticed you removed your ring when mixing. Very smart! The price per pound skyrockets when you add diamonds to your feed! 😂

I watched this a couple of years ago and have been using the recipe for my chickens ever since. I am very happy to know exactly what they are eating and they are thriving! Thank you for sharing this!

1 sack Whole grain Wheat (white or red) 1 sack Whole corn 1 sack Whole Oats 1/3 sack Soy meal She used 1/2 sacks of each and 1/6 sack of Soy in the video to suit her container. Calf Manna can be added, not much maybe 3 scoops I am guessing by the looks. Great video and love the pups!! 😀

She has done her homework well. She is a very bright woman. Thanks for all your work and advice ma’am

After all these years watching your videos , I finally did it I got 6 chicks hens and one turkey for thanksgiving. They were 5 days old when I got them and they are 14 days now .

After starting this feeding plan last fall, it has worked well over the winter. Now in March we are getting so many eggs we can't give them all away. They taste so much better and are strong shelled and after adding the fodder you recommend the yolks are a deep yellow to orange. We thank you so much for having a great KZfaq channel.

I wanted to share my favorite feeding method for whole grains. I put my feed in a bucket when I close the hens in at night, add water to 2 x the feed depth then feed on the ground next morning. Love this video, it started my experiment in whole grains and scratch. Keep on keepin on young lady!!!!

Just bought four hens. Dang, didn't realize I needed a biology degree to feed them! Good video.

Good video. I make my own feed too. I do not use Soy it might be a good protein source but growing mealworms is fairly easy. I freeze them then dry them. Mealworms are 50% excellent quality "animal" protein. Chickens are not Herbivores. They are very carnivorous. "Bugs" keep them healthy and prevent a Salmonella infection. Soy makes big eggs. Too much Soy can cause ova-duct prolapse. I prefer using dried mealworms for my protein source. I also grow #4 Russian Comfrey and enough corn for a year's worth of feed after it is dried. I do not use artificial fertilizers or pesticides of any kind. I do not use "organic fertilizers either. I use a different plot for corn every year

This video is gold. Makes so much sense to buy whole grains and beans and mix own feed.

Thank you for the video. The challenge is finding ingredients of the quality I want. Almost all corn and soy is GMO now. And even though oats and wheat are not (so far), the best oats are grown up north where they spray them with Glyphosate to dry them right before harvesting. Even organic oats can test positive for Glyphosate. I found a sprouting feed I really liked. But when shipping costs went up, they raised the cost to ship one 25 lb bag to $100+ which is just crazy. They clearly decided they didn't want to ship it anymore. Quality ingredients can sometimes be found locally. For example, there is a grower of organic wheat NW of OKC. They also grow field peas. Both can be sprouted and wheat berries can be grown into fodder. Flax seed is getting easier to find because more people are feeding it to their horses now.

I've been watching chicken videos a lot in the last year and this is definitely among the top 3 when it comes to chicken feeding.

Yes! Thank you! No one does this. I have been trying to find a video like this. I thought it was so weird how many people use crumble or pellets. I only use crumble now for the chicks but hate how it just obliterates itself. I am so excited to make my own layer feed instead of using that processed crap.

Thank you for all the information you have shared with us. And we love your videos. Thanks again, stay safe out there.

New subscriber here as well as new chicken owner. I appreciate this video, thank you for making it so I could give my chickens the healthiest life possible as well as giving my family the healthiest eggs possible.

Great video with a ton of info. Here’s what I plan to do. 4 metal trash cans for corn, wheat, oats and soy. 1 measure of each of the first 3 three and a 1/2 measure of the soy. Mix as I feed in a coffee can. More thorough mixing and less hassle.

Love your video! I will be sharing this for sure! We started out allowing ours to free-range and they rarely ate the feed. We lost 2 to hawks, and 1 to an owl (because that chicken would not get in the coop that night). So they are in the coop more now. We do let them out and are watchful. We just can't bring ourselves to have an animal constantly caged.

You have come a long way since I first started watching your channel. Your research has made you an expert. Good job girl!

Thanks for getting me started on this journey. I discovered that non genetically engineered soy and corn is very difficult to find. I did find a feed store just over an hour out of town and it is so much cheaper to buy grains from a farming community. It was less than half the price of all city Big Lot pet stores and a beautiful drive. I was so excited I wanted to share this with all of you. They also ordered non gmo corn for me and it was still reasonably priced but I gad to buy a 50 lb bag.

An incredible flow of facts & figures, apparently all off the top of her head! Absolutely unbeatable presentation!

I'm going with your advice as this is the best video I have watched. You know your stuff on feeding chickens. Thanks so much!

Thank you SOOOOOOO much! I’m just about to get chickens in about a month and I am so excited and want the very best for my hens that lay eggs because those are going into mine and my family’s body!!

So today I went to my local feed store to get what you recommended here and literally got laughed at. He told me that he sold chicken feed premixed and I’d learn the hard way that this won’t make a difference. Who does that?! Needless to say, I bought what I needed and mixed my feed.

I use BOSS mixed with wheat, oats, rye, and barley if I can find it. I also ferment their grain and sprouts in the winter.

You have to be careful with soy. Most of not all is GMO and “Roundup Ready”. As a Vietnam veteran fighting cancer and diabetes I do not allow chemicals of any kind on my farm

Great breakdown. I was mixing my own grain winter through summer and soaking it for three days, but when I took sick, I had my wife go back to the pellets. Thanks for the time you took to put this all together. Blessings, Jim

We used to give our hens this sort of higher nutrient rich, homemade food as well and they always laid well beyond the usual time when most hens would be considered past their prime egg laying years. Boy, I still miss the girls. ( City dweller now) God bless you out there, doing the right thing by your chickens 🐔 If I ever get the chance to get back to the farm, know that I will be using your feed recipe for my girls. 😁✌🏽🧓🏽

Thanks for the video!Much like you,I make my own mix for my "micro- Pterodactyls".Watching your videos has given me a few ideals on improving my mix though.I use a local whole grain pigeon feed (Excello) as the base of my mix.Though the grains are local, it is $30 for a 50lbs bag.It has a lot of Safflower, Sunflower ,Yellow and Austrian red peas .I then mix in a few scoops of 20% poultry feed.I recently started adding a scoop or two of Sweet Feed (which the hens really seem to like on its own ).I throw a daily ration of this mix into a 3 gallon container ,which I fill with water and let it ferment a day or two.My hens REALLY go crazy for this stuff!I'm going to have to find another source for my grains (other than local feed store),and try some Soymeal you suggested in your video.Thanks again for the video and the great ideals!

Do you think you should add diatomaceous food grade powder to this mix. For bugs and to keep the girls healthy.. I saw someone else add it ..I'm just curious your opinion and thoughts.. great video lots of information..I love your doggies. So cute..

My girls are in a slump so I'm gonna use this. Really Like your music at the end, Glory To The Light Of The World! Yes! 😁

Just had 9 pure bred Italian Maremma puppies born in So. WI . Ready in 6-8 weeks. 5 males, 4 females. Excellent Livestock Guardians.

You should be proud of youself for developing such an expertise on this subject. Watched a lot of videos trying to find a well balanced mix mix.m

Love your videos! We are new to chickens and have 4 hens 1 rooster. breed is Orpington. They're about 17 weeks and are getting ready to produce. Happy I found this video before they started!

You are a great source of information. I like all of your videos. Very diverse content. I love your eyes, so lovely.

I agree with boosting protein. Been at this 40 years. I use different mixes for different seasons. Winter : 4 way to boost their internal heat with Game Bird crumble (22%) misty earth and oyster shells are positively essential.

You truly enlightened me when I was contemplating on buying store layer feed. Thanks!

Thanks for the info! I will be mixing my chickens food as soon as my chickens get a little bigger, my chickens are only 2 months old right now.

Love your videos! Fermenting would increase your available nutrients by half again. I'm going to have to try it ;).

That little dog fight at the end was too entertaining. I had to back up and focus solely on what you were saying! 😂

I watched your video almost 6 years ago and have been feeding them just like that all this time. Thank you.

I think small sprouted beans and seeds are good as well.

More people should consider growing buckwheat. It's small seeds that chickens can eat without grinding just added to whatever other feed they get. There's a way to grow maggots using rotten meat in a bucket with holes for the maggots to fall out on the ground for the chickens to eat. I'm sure there must be other types of larvae that can be easily grown to provide protein.

Thanks for helping feed my 9 Filipino orphans. I am in the process of buying them a farm and teaching them. To grow and store their own food

when i had chickens for eggs i did much like you do. i never gave my chickens anything soy. i used red wheat, flax, oats, barley, corn only when it was to keep them warm. i kept all grains in separate 30 gallon drums and in or under water. the wet grains allowed the birds to digest the grain before they pooped it out. as far as the extras go i also added shredded dried red beets, rehydrated. i was selling 50 dozen eggs a week and some days i would get 10 dozen a day. i used a cement mixer to mix it all. i also raised ducks and fed them pretty much the same mixture.

Nice video. I like how I have no idea whether you made it all up or not. No matter. Time to feed the chickens!

You need to find yourself a modestly sized cement mixer. I got mine used for a very reasonable price and it makes mixing feed a breeze.

Super informative video. Im analytical to begin with, so its nice to gain some knowledge in better understanding each part of the feed. We are new to chickens, got 15 about a month ago, and its nice to have this info

I REALLY enjoyed this and happy to find you again after something like 4 years. Your video is very informative, easy to understand FULL of great information.....even with the loud trucks and playing dogs :o) I can't wait to try this after I get my chickens. Thank you so much!!

Really great video. Agree with your whole grain philosophy versus milled feeds from farm store.

Very interesting and informative. Have you considered small additions of either Brewer’s Yeast or Blood and Bone, I keep about 30 chickens and 30 ducks, in Australia it’s difficult to obtain fish or meat meal and a grain diet may sometimes be deficient in B group vitamins, notably niacin. Thanks for your thoughts.

Chickens know what they need to eat. Just like cats, and children. :). I free feed oyster shells, and offer greens and meat as supplements. Before I even reach their pen, they are either interested in what I have to offer or not. They must smell the food from 20 feet away. It is interesting observing what they eat and how much. Thank you for the tips.

Very interesting! Very informative! Much food for thought... :) You really did your homework! Chickens are my next project. You can also get a cheap electric cement mixer to mix the stuff and it does a much better and less tiring job than by hand... :) It's good for the dog food too. I have a whole bank of the mixers that I use for compost/soil/sand/minerals/etc. for the raised beds and to actually mix concrete too... One person can mix up a surprising amount of concrete for big projects using 5 little cement mixers in a row just workin' their lil' ol' hearts out. And it's cheap, cheap, cheap. All you need is a pile of sand, a pile of gravel and bags of cheap cement. Sure beats having concrete delivered!

❤❤❤ I appreciate this so much!! Thanks so much for putting in the work to show us this!! So helpful. Was this recipe done with organic ingredients? It seems difficult to find these bulk items available organically. I don’t want to feed my hens GMO’s or glyphosate when the whole purpose for me is to have high-nutrition eggs, that won’t cause cancer.

Where I live I can collect a mix of seaweed, barnacle shell and grit from the beach which saves a lot. I fed my 3 old hens whole wheat soaked 24 hours on the ground in their chicken tractor every evening when I move the tractor and collect the eggs. Doing this all fall and winter I am now harvesting their feed from what they planted. For spring and summer i have switched to bird seed mix and flax seed which is growing fantastic and I hop to harvest in the fall.

My chickens won't eat pellets, and they are getting fussy about the crumbles. You are right about the crumbles, too much of it turns to dust and is wasted. I have been feeding them oats, barley and scratch mix since they were old enough to have it. I do give them oyster shell. I feed hand pulled clover greens if it's bad weather and they stay in the run, and in winter I buy kale and feed them that. Otherwise they forage all spring, summer and fall. Eggshells I wash and dry in the oven with the pilot light is always on and they dry, Then I grind them in mortar and pestle. Great video, excellent info, thanks very much, good job!

I do mix my own feed even though I have not the complete control. I buy milled grains bag that are freshly ground twice a week, i do not know the correct percentages, it has corn wheat sunflower and barley in, then I buy concentrate bags which is sunflowers, soybean meal, minerals, it all comes down to about $.21/lb. I add calcium carbonate for the hens as i cannot find oyster shells anymore. The chickens for mean (standard barnyard chickens, not cornish) that I have raised, on 10 we just processed, only 2 had fat on their bellies.

Let me just say I love your video. Very informative. I don't like soybean so I will definitely be looking for an alternative. Do you have the right ratio of each grain written out somewhere? Thank you for educating us.

Check out turkey starter. It's high in protein. I haven't purchased and in years, but that is what I used when raising wood ducks. BTW: Great Video.

Lady, you have a great idea about how much you need to feed the chickens and at a low cost.

You could bake up some cornbread with some Cheyenne pepper it forces them to drink more water witch help them a little extra especially in the winter I was tutored about this by a little old granny.

Love this video! The pups in the background are an adorable bonus!

Great video and I do plan to start feeding my chickens on whole grains. HOWEVER, a diet of 30% wheat at 15% protein, 30% corn at 9% protein, 30% oats at 9% protein and 10% soya at 60% protein only actually comes out at 15.9% protein overall, not the 30% you quote. Have I missed something?

You have good knowledge about requirements of poultry, about 3.5-4% Ca for laying hens and for broiler (meat Breeds) you need to give maximum 0.8-0.95% Ca. Available Phosphorus must be aroind 0.45%. You are presented very practical knowledge and you have good command on feeding and nutrition of chicken. Even now formulations are mainly based on digestible Amino Acids

Love Your knowledge , thank you for explaining all that very helpful.

Dang...you gave so much great information in this video...thank you! I definitely have to save this one for reference material in the future :)

Gravey Davey I agree. She does have gorgeous eyes

Amen, thank you for your in depth instructions. We are just trying to live like God intended it.

i saw the comment on sprouting the grain. it's unbelievable how much more nutrition the birds will get this way.

Excellent teaching video, I had a quick question, are whole pinto beans too big or can I crush them to make bite sized pieces? Buying the pellets is hitting me in the wallet also, I come to really love and value my 2 hens and want them to get the best diet as possible by creating my own, the other question was my molasses that I use for cooking, is this ok to use? Thanks for helping me be the best chicken mama in town. You are sweet to share all your knowledge young lady. Hugs from Roseville California

Great video and useful information. Interested to see how you sprout your grains (or perhaps ferment them?)

I feed mine beef dog food mixed with scratch , plus I let them scratch in the yard ( 2 acres) . the neighbor works at a camp and brings all the scrap food .Yes they are healthy I have 1 hen who is over 13 yrs old

I really appreciate the details provided in this video. Thanks for sharing.

Great video. Very interested in getting started making my own feed. Thank you for sharing.

18:45 We use a concrete Mixer from Harbor Freight for mixing ours..lol

Thanks for the tips. Smart and beautiful person you are .

Why don’t you use black oiled sunflower seeds? I enjoyed your presentation. I’m going to start making my own feed. Thank you.

Love the dogs! Thanks so much for this video. Exactly what I was looking for

Great video. I'm willing to pay extra for non gmo feeds. Soybeans are almost impossible to get in non gmo.

Whole wheat over my way is about $9/bag, with the corn is another $7/bag with Koi is another $14/bag, which the proteins in the koi food is 36% protein alone. So generally, mixed it is costing me less than your $11. That is during winter season and some spring when it is still low and cold temps. I do remove the corn during summer and fall when temps are still around 75 degrees and start corn when it turns to 68 degrees at night fall. Now it is important to note, fodder must be grown out of the whole wheat for 10 days and fed to them. This reduces the amount of feed by A LOT! If you add fodder to this feed, you are literally giving them more than they will eat. whole wheat fodder is grown instead of given to them seed wise to make the wheat last longer and produce a much more efficient food. When it is grown out for 10 days, and corn and koi is placed on top of it, they tear it apart pretty good, and the benefits will show! You can even taste it yourself and the grass is a sweet taste and healthy for you who do juices. All this with the oyster shells, and my chickens are well fed. They know what they like to eat and so do worms and insects that eat all the left overs.

Can I feed peas and lentils? Along with the wheat oats barley corn mix? I wont use soybean at all nor canola And Everything I feed is GMO free. Thank you for the wonderful video!

Can you use dried peas instead of soy? They grow a lot of peas for split peas around here. They run them through a sifter and the ones too small for market fall through. Could these be used for chicken feed?

Deep in the chicken science. But. Very informative. Thanks for sharing what you had to learn.

very informative I think I know now more than before and understand I have to feed my chicken better then store bought food, I some times add meat leftover and fish leftover from out food to them. but your video added so much more knowledge. thank you

GREAT VIDEO !!! I subscribed immediately after watching/downloading this video. You answered a lot of questions I had about homebrew chicken feed. Looking forward to seeing your other videos. Keep up the good work, God Bless Y'all !!!.

Great info! I'm omitting soy and adding fresh meal worms. (In a separate platter, not mixed in obviously.) I love how you kept talking through the dogs fighting 😆

Thank you so much !! Great video, great info. Do you have any chicken raising books to recommend? How do you calculate for the protein?

I'm subscribing for several reasons, but mainly to look at those gorgeous eyes. Their absolutely beautiful!

Great info. Will try this. God bless you ma'am.

Can you list in your description section the exact type and items you showed putting in your mix, including that red pallet stuff. And you didn't add any of the egg shell powder so how much would you add of that. I just bought my first flock of 65 chickens and want to know how to make them the healthiest/happiest free range flock. Thank you and I'll go on FB too and follow you.

I've only watched a few of your videos. Pretty good stuff from what I've seen. RFDTV needs to pick you up. You'd make a good RFDTV series.

We get brown flax seed at the local feed store IFA. It's about $90 per 50lbs bag

Chickens love wet feed, dry ground pellet feed can be fed with a bit of water and they love it. I like to feed late in the day so they sleep full and wake up hungry , that way they dig and turn over more yard and garden soil looking for bugs , roots, and grass..

Love your video!! Thank you for sharing!

I would love to know your sources for buying the grains. Blessings ❤️

I mixed my own food when I had game birds. Used sunflower seeds and fodder for the protien . And calf mania at times . Used milo and some corn wheat barley sunflower seeds oats soy meal is hard yo find in my area . Used to feed it to pigs growing up.in Kansas .

Thank you so much for sharing your video! Can't wait to see how you sprout your grains😊Thank you!

Thanks for the GREAT INFORMATION!!! We have searched our area for the kinds of stuff you are talking about. Have not been able to find most. Hopefully we can find someplace to purchase.... thanks 🌻🐝🌻. Have a BLESSED DAY

Thank you.. great video. There is a lady adding quite a large percentage of black sunflower seeds to her mix. What's your opinion on that?

I love the beautiful colored eggs at the end of the video

Very helpful video it answered a lot of my questions. Thank you for taking the time to share info