Feeding Chickens – What’s Good and What’s Not : laying chickens

Chicken feed: pellets or mash?

The mainstay of pet chickens’ diet is usually either pellets or layers’ mash and most will accept either quite happily. The choice is more yours as to what works out best for your pocket.

We have experimented with both but opted for mash in the end. When we tried pellets, we thought that the chickens were getting through an awful lot, but gradually started discovered huge stores of pellets outside the run that had obviously been carried away by the local vermin population.

Another reason for choosing mash was pure practicality. We prefer to buy… Continue reading →