If you go to a store that sells feed, you can choose between cheap chicken feed and expensive, GMO-free chicken feed. The expensive stuff can be 100% or more expensive than the cheap stuff.
If you free-range your chickens, they can find the supplement nutrients from the field -- bugs, grass, leaves, and such. So you can get away with feeding them cheap feed.
If you want to save even more money, make your own feed by mixing commodity grains.
If you want to save even MORE money, plant the seed, harvest, dry, and feed the chickens. Some people just let the chickens forage in the planted fields.
In a lot of areas, if you free range your chickens, you soon won't have any. There are dogs, foxes, wolves, big cats, hawks, and more. Most individuals who raise chickens don't have enough land to raise chicken feed.
If you go to a store that sells feed, you can choose between cheap chicken feed and expensive, GMO-free chicken feed. The expensive stuff can be 100% or more expensive than the cheap stuff.
If you free-range your chickens, they can find the supplement nutrients from the field -- bugs, grass, leaves, and such. So you can get away with feeding them cheap feed.
If you want to save even more money, make your own feed by mixing commodity grains.
If you want to save even MORE money, plant the seed, harvest, dry, and feed the chickens. Some people just let the chickens forage in the planted fields.
In a lot of areas, if you free range your chickens, you soon won't have any. There are dogs, foxes, wolves, big cats, hawks, and more. Most individuals who raise chickens don't have enough land to raise chicken feed.