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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] organic chicken feed
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:17:43 -0400

My contributions to this topic begin at
http://themodernhomestead.us/article/Feeding.html
--lotta info/ideas on offer there.

See also current issue of Backyard Poultry magazine, where my article on home feeding is one of the lead pieces.

~Harvey

I'm considering having chickens in the near future, and want to avoid
GMOs and other questionable ingredients in their feed. They don't need
to be certified organic, as least not anytime in the foreseeable future,
but I just want clean, healthful eggs and meat for us, as well as
healthy birds, of course. Is there an economical (for a small flock)
commercial organic feed (or at least non-GMO, and no animal by-products)
available in New England, or an economical alternative by mixing one's
own feed ingredients? Can you even get non-GMO corn commercially? I have
way too little land to raise my own ingredients unless there may be
something that you'd use only a little of. How long would say, 50# of
feed last for a 10-12 bird flock (layers)? ~Barbara



--
Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by
Chelsea Green Publishing.






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