What to Feed Chickens

We buy chicken feed from a local feed store: it is organic and costs just under $16 for a 40 pound bag. It is ground corn meal, oats, etc and the girls never get tired of it. You can also give them treats…chickens can eat almost anything (this page from BackyardChickens has good suggestions). Our girls love cooked, leftover corn on the cob, fresh tomato…their favorite food is yogurt. We get unsweetened, full-fat yogurt from a cowshare and when some is left at the end of the week the chickens get it.

I just pour some out on a piece of cardboard or slate tile…or let them dip their beaks into the container which is hilarious. The Buckeyes will put their entire heads in, even covering their eyes with yogurt. The only time I’ve heard a chicken sneeze was when she got a beak-ful of yogurt.