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Chicken Feed – Chickens Like Variety Too!

Posted by admin | Posted on 10-04-2011

Category : Chicken Care

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If you are planning to make some room for raising chickens in your backyard, the two most important things you will have to consider are a spacious coop and pocket friendly chicken feed. There are some things to consider when you’re looking for chicken feed.

Diet

Chickens are usually fed with either pellets or layers’ mash and most of the time, pet chickens are happy with either of these. It is important to feed your chickens with something that they love to eat. The type of chicken feed you choose plays an important role in healthy flocking.

Nutrition

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Almost Anything Can Be Used As Chicken Food For Your Quirky Friends

Posted by admin | Posted on 21-02-2011

Category : Feeding Your Chickens

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Well not quite anything, but a chicken is a bird and birds eat a wide variety of foods. In nature birds eat everything from fish and other birds, to insect and even mammals. chicken feed is much simpler, but chickens can digest all sorts of treats.

Some birds can use a specialized body part that is known as the gullet. This is an area in above the stomach that holds bits of stone for grinding harder foods into smaller pieces. This allows for the birds to digest almost any kind of food imaginable.

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