Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>]

I use wild bird seed for my chickens.  It is a mix with sunflowers, millet, 
wheat and sorghum.  There is no corn or soy in it and I feel that is the best 
I can do.  I give them kitchen waste as well and they are allowed to free 
range during the day.  Anna

--- On Mon, 6/14/10, Barbara Money <bmoney9@verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Barbara Money <bmoney9@verizon.net>
> Subject: [Livingontheland] organic chicken feed
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, June 14, 2010, 12:22 PM
> Hi all,
> 
> 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)?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Barbara M
> Foster, RI
> 
> -- 
> "Animals Are A Gift"
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