Make Your Own Organic Chicken Feed & Save Money!

In this video I discuss how I recently sourced organic grains from Azure Standard and the ingredients I used to make my own whole grain organic chicken feed. Click the link below to learn more about Azure Standard.

Social Media:

Influential books I've referenced:

Tools I use:

Soil Amendments

#howtomakechickenfeed #savemoneyonchickenfeed #organicchickenfeed

[slrs]

The chicken feed I buy is MUCH less expensive than that, but I cannot guarantee that it is as healthy or lasts as long as yours. The birds may eat less of your mix...that is the question I want answered. Also, I hope you feed grit with all that whole seed as the birds need grit to "chew" it up.

[mayshomesteadchronicles]

Thanks for sharing this man! Very clear and precise info. Thanks for not beating around the bush and making us watch unnecessary chores, etc before seeing the content mentioned in your title haha

[oftin_wong]

A mixture of grain is better than layer pellets ..may not be cheaper but your chickens will be healthier
I cook 5 grains so it swells up and is more digestible
Cracked corn
Barley
Wheat
Sorghum
Brown rice (in at the end)
Then I add raw black sunflower seeds too when I feed them
I cook up a couple of weeks worth at a time and keep it refrigerated

[victorybeginsinthegarden]

In my experience if you mix flaxseed in that will help improve egg production over winter I would feed it to them on the side. My birds don't like it mixed in with the food but when I feed it free choice the munch in it and i noticed the egg production increased and stabilized also lots of greens over the winter too will help with egg protection

[tammybenadventures]

Getting my first chickens ever and definitely making this and watching all your videos thanks so much!

[melissabowers]

Giving this a try! My girls had the peas, but every other recipe I’ve found has them. If you have a corn free version I’d love to have it!

[chrisdaniel]

Do you think grinding the grains would make it more of the nutrients bioavailable to the chickens? Do you add any diatomaceous earth or ground oyster shells to your mix?

[dbluehorsedeboe]

Is there anything at tractor supply that is worth giving chickens?

[plantbasedprepper]

The Peas to Barley replacement dropped your Protein from 19% in Peas to 10% in Barley. How did you keep your protein at 17%?

[alicenakajima]

I just started buying grains for fodder from azure as well and have been contemplating trying their shared chicken feed recipe on their website. What protein percentage does your mix have please?

[gaisweet]

how much was the shipping cost, add that in with the feed cost. to give a true amount that you spent on the feed, plus having to mix it all.

[teenagefarmer]

Good video. I'm not in on the whole organic thing. But it was cool to see thanks for sharing.

[OctoberSeven-xg]

U didn't mention the sunflower seed to mixture

[MD-tpzy]

have you tried feeding your chickens coconut oil? I heard it makes for healthier chicken

[garethcurtis]

The only thing i worry about making a home made feed is that the chickens will just pick out the bits they like, where as with the pellets or mash they can't obviously do that. Assuming thats not your experience though?

[heatherspears]

Just switched my chickens to this, today is the 4th day and they’re not eating everything. Did you have any issues when you switched?

[fastrivers]

That's expensive. It may be cheap for organic feed but we buy a 50lb bag of layer mash at our local bulk feed store for $13.

[andrewgonzales]

How did the mix workk out for the chickens ??

[triggerray]

Main problem with this is the insane level of trouble it is to order through Azure Standard. I followed your recipe and tried to order everything a month ago. The Chicken Wheat, Animal Feed was out of stock so I checked back daily and after 2 weeks was able to add 2 bags to my order. A week later I received email saying my order was in and the cutoff has closed so I could not add to it. Everything was on my order at the cutoff date so we were good with a full order. Next email says "Thank you for ordering with Azure Standard! The truck has been packed and is on its way to your drop. We hope you are pleased with your products." HOWERVER, 4 days later another email saying they were only shipping part of the order because they sold it to someone else at the warehouse. YEP! that's how appreciated my efforts were. So I called customer service who said that is their policy and regardless of how many times I order or see confirmation it doesn't matter and I would be lucky to ever get it. That combined with meeting someone driving a Honda Accord in strange parking lot to accept delivery (no joke!) but their truck broke down and no one could tell me when I was required to be at this strictly regulated drop off means your video is a good idea but promotes a very bad supplier.

[alexbeach]

Curious to what the shipping cost was for all of that?