Feeding your chickens

DuMor is our favorite brand of feed. Southern states is cheaper on there feed though. Here is the following feeds by age DuMor brand:

Baby chicks 0-10 weeks- starter/grower

Medium size chickens- 10-18weeks- grower/ finisher

Mature chickens and for laying hens- layer pellets or layer pellets mixed with crack corn


In the evenings we give ours a scoop of Scratch to keep them happy.
Also, occasionally a hand full of Oyster shell to keep the eggs from being too fragile.

Egg shells that are washed and crushed can be fed to them instead of oyster shells.

Never let a chicken eat raw egg. They will be more likely to crack their eggs. 

Some people feed their chickens table scraps. This is fine but I wouldn't give them things like onions, sweets, spicy nor raw foods. This will cause the eggs to taste bad.

Some stores carry bags of treats and such for chickens these are fine.

Ours absolutely love chunks of apple.