20 Creative Ways to Cut the Cost of Chicken Feed

If you have a dozen chickens and you're feeding them organic, non-GMO commercial grains, you're going to spend well over $100 a month just on chicken feed. But as Justin Rhodes says in this video, we've only had grain for chickens for about a century, and chickens have been around for thousands of years.

This is very good news because it means there are lots of other things you can feed to your chickens–things that you can get for free from around your homestead. Here are 20 creative ideas:

1. Soil Building Plants
2. Homestead Predators
3. Mice
4. Cover Crops
5. Weeds
6. Garden Trimmings
7. Extra Crops
8. Berries & Grain Crops
9. Nut Trees
10. Fruit Trees
11. Garden Pests
12. Pond (Fish & Duckweed)
13. Soldier Flies
14. Sprouted Grains
15. Compost & Worms
16. Food Scraps
17. Grass & Hay
18. Other Farm Products (Milk, Organs, Bones)
19. Chicken Eggs & Feathers
20. Fermented Grain

Watch the video below for details on exactly how to acquire these things.

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