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  • From: anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] organic chicken feed
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:07:32 -0700 (PDT)

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
>
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