Feeding Chickens

PaddyJules

We have just got 3 chickens for laying eggs. We are feeding them layer pellets and corn mix in a feeder so they have access to that all day. But I am unsure how much kitchen scraps to feed them. They pick away at the grass during the day and eat the pellets.

So should I feed them scraps once or twice a day and roughly how much should I give them. Today I boiled up potato peelings and mixed in some cooked veg and wetabix crumbs and moistened it with milk and added some crushed up egg shells. Is this ok?

Is it possible to overfeed them? Probably sounds like silly questions but I am totally new to all this so any advice would be great.

Askim

i like to feed pellets & grain ad-lib, but i like all wet food to be gone within hours, this stops it going sour.

i don't think you can over feed them, but bake the egg shells in an hot oven for 10mins, it will stop any disease being passed on

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darrcow

i feed my hens layers mash and corn in the summer and in the winter feed them flake maize mixed with hot water so it goes mushy. the hens get kitchen scraps when ever i have some left. but for some reason my black menorca hens wont eat veg trimming the hybrids,light sussex and marans will eat anything. always cook the egg shells so they dont get a taste for raw egg as they will start breaking the eggs to eat.

liamhana

boiling up peels, oven baking egg shells...they get better care than most humans!:)
I give ours Pellets in the morning while they're in their pen, and then later in the afternoon l let them roam around the garden pecking....they all lay daily & no their place in the pecking order (boom Boom!)