So you have got your chickens and now you are questioning exactly what to feed them? A great question, to which the noticeable solution is: food.
However what, I hear you cry, do chickens eat? We could address that concern by to start with learning how they consume.
Poultries are omnivores, which is a Latin acceptation "to feast on".
Threatening creatures remain in the main opportunistic eaters, which suggests that they will eat anything that is handy or seems appealing at the time. Significantly like you and I actually. What ever takes their fancy?
Chickens feed themselves in the wild by eating seeds, pests, grubs, insects, tiny mice and reptiles. Due to this routine and also to maintain your chickens pleased (which is essential if you desire them to be healthy and balanced) you must always let you chickens" run around" as commonly as you can.
By allowing your hens to do this you will be able to keep your hens food cost down and also as a side effect, there will certainly be less bugs in your garden to eat your veg!
There are a few questions that you have to ask on your own before you start maintaining poultries;
Why do you intend to maintain chickens?: For eggs/meat/pets
Are you mosting likely to spend loan on maintaining hens or do it on the inexpensive?
Make you very own food or acquire in?
Only you can answer those questions, but lets say that it is a little everything: you are going to keep poultries for a couple of eggs for breakfast, acquire a little bit of food as well as feed them your scraps; which I suppose is exactly what a lot of yard chicken keepers do.
A couple of tips on acquiring food: go to a proper shop. By that I mean a farmers go shopping that offers "feeds" failing that buy your food at an active animal shop. The reason for this is that you do not want stale or out of date tasty poultry and an active shop will certainly have a good turn over of food supply ... never ever buy hen food that is on sale due to the fact that the factor that it is on sale is due to the fact that more then most likely it is aging. Likewise do deny way too much food at the same time to ensure that it ends up going sour in your store.