Things You'll Need
- Large mixing bin with cover
- Small shovel
- 100 pounds cracked corn
- 50 pounds ground soybeans
- 10 pounds alfalfa pellets
- 10 pounds dry oats
- 10 pounds ground bone meal
- 5 pounds poultry vitamin powder
- Feed scale
- Feed pans
Instructions
Place your mixing bin on a flat surface. A 100-gallon rubber horse or cattle trough is large enough to mix and store your prepared chicken feed. Set your shovel against the trough to keep it close as you prepare your feed.
Pour your cracked corn in the bottom of the trough, layering the soybeans on top. Mix the two ingredients thoroughly with your shovel. Corn and soybeans provide enough fat and protein to allow your chickens to grow and thrive.
Add the alfalfa pellets, oats and bone meal to the tub and use the shovel to mix them into the corn and soybeans. The alfalfa pellets and oats add greens and fiber to the feed mixture, while the bone meal adds essential phosphorous and nitrogen.
Sprinkle the poultry vitamins over the feed and stir gently with your hands to incorporate. Poultry vitamin powder contains all the essential vitamins and minerals needed for optimal health in your flock and can be purchased from your veterinarian or local feed store.
Cover your bin to keep out pests and moisture, and feed the mixture to your chickens on a daily basis. Five chickens will eat approximately 2 lbs. of feed per day, so measure out the proper amount of feed on your scale and place it in your feed pans each morning to provide proper nutrition to your flock.