what's up Homestead homies it's off grid with Doug and Stacy I'm Stacy and I'm Doug and today we guys we're going to talk to you guys about the homestead chicken food our secret ancient Chinese recipe uh that we perfected over the four years of being from zero knowledge City Slickers to uh Professional Home stutters yeah right [Music] share this uh formula with you guys we're going to teach you how to regulate or determine the amount of protein that's in your chicken food so your um eggs can be stronger taste better and everyone can be happy yeah just remember you want six at least 16 to 177% total protein in your feed anything above it is awesome so 16% is the minimum yeah that's what you need to have at least for your eggs to be yummy so here we go okay guys this is our chicken feed mix and this is how we feed our chickens so I have this little chart that I usually keep in a notebook um it's the protein content of a lot of different things I might use flax seeds I generally like to have all the time they can be a little more pricey it's like out here in Missouri $29 for a 50lb bag but it will last a long time because I'm not going to use that much of it 37% protein brewers brewers yeast if you do want to use it it's definitely great you don't need that much either black oil sunflower seeds is something that I always try to have try to grow your own would be a great way to do it and you get a lot of sunflower seeds if you do grow them peas and beans um like split peas um different kinds of beans like lentils are awesome they're very high in protein what I do is you can go to the ding um The Ding and Dent stores and you can get like bags of split peas I mean for 10 cents 25 cents um beans things like that dried beans and it works good to kind of supplement every once in a while just to kind of give them something different to eat because they do get sick of eating the same thing sometimes sesame seeds they're higher in protein but they are a little more pricey um I don't get them as much but some of you guys might want to the other thing that is wonderful because it will um it's 15 to 12% depending on what kind you get is different types of Wheats the hard red wheat is higher in protein than the soft white um I know here I can't get it at our feed store I'm going to have to wait until Springtime so I do like to supplement and put that in their feed so sometimes if I know if it's getting at the end of the season and I'm running out I might get another bag or two just to help me get through winter barley it's 12% protein you can do Rye you can do regular oats you can do whole oats the whole oats of course are going to have more protein in them and that's another staple that we have all the time here corn um definitely want the whole corn 9% it's very high in energy um and high in fat and it's definitely something you need to feed your chickens in winter time um Millet our chickens love Millet here I love it and then we have a lot of guies and it is the ghillies or guies it's the Guinea's favorite food um you can train a guinea on Millet actually um and then Milo is another one it's 9% protein and it's something else that I might do so look at some of these in the chart and some of them that are comparable in the amount of protein if you can't find one maybe get the other one and you want to mix and match so sometimes if I can't find Millet I can do Milo if I feel like switching I can switch it up sometimes maybe your chicken might like something more than another one so just kind of check it out and see but generally for us here I always do the whole oats always I always do the Millet corn pretty much in the summertime I will do the cracked corn a little bit more they seem to like that a little bit more in it as opposed to the whole corn that's more of a winter type one to keep them warm and full of energy um and I do barley once in a while um I like the barley and then the wheat I usually go with the hard red wheat I don't do this off white as often but you can even mix those too um I'm going to show you a kind of a little chart how to figure it out but between all these you want your feed to end up to be about 16 to 177% protein now here's your example so all you do to figure out how much protein you're going to have in your feed because you want to have 16 to 17% total is you get your pounds of your legumes your seeds um and then let let's say I did 20 lb and then you times that by the percent protein that I just showed you in the chart here and here let's say it was 15% protein and that gave me 3% protein okay so then I'm going to put that all together so let's say I'm doing about 100 100 lb so we have a big huge trash can so you can kind of take it off of whatever you have if you only have a few chickens then maybe you could do 5 lbs or you can do 10 lbs whatever you want to do so let's say I did 30 lb of whole oats so it's 30 times my 15% cuz that's how much it is in protein 0. 15 you make sure you put the decimal point in the front there so that gives me 4. 5% then 20 pounds of black oil sunflower seeds so it would be 20 * 26 because that is 20 um 26% protein so that's 5.
2 then the 30 lb of millet it's 2. 7 % 20 lb of corn 1. 8% then I did 5 lb of flax seed 1.
85 then it gave me my total protein of those things there are 16.
