How Many Will Your Bird Feed? - Herb Fed Poultry (2024)

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How Many Will Your Bird Feed? - Herb Fed Poultry? ›

On average, a laying hen eats about ¼-pound of feed per day or 1.5 pounds of feed per week. If you're buying a 50-pound bag of feed, it would feed your chicken for about 33 weeks. If you have four hens in your flock, eating about 6 pounds of feed a week, you'll go through a 50-pound bag of feed about every 8 weeks.

On average, a laying hen eats about ¼-pound of feed per day or 1.5 pounds of feed per week. If you're buying a 50-pound bag of feed, it would feed your chicken for about 33 weeks. If you have four hens in your flock, eating about 6 pounds of feed a week, you'll go through a 50-pound bag of feed about every 8 weeks.

100 layers require 12.5kg of feed per day.

Whole Chickens and Cornish Game Hens

A whole 3 to 4-pound chicken will feed 4 to 6 people, depending on ages and appetite. For Cornish game hens, which are very small chickens, count on one small (1.25 pounds) game hen per person or half of a larger (2-pound) game hen.

If you are trying to be economic. A large chicken, about 4Lbs could feed two adults and two children. In my younger days I would eat a whole medium chicken along with Biryani rice, curry sauce, yoghurt and salad. The answer to this depends on how much you think is a reasonable quantity per person.

Look for a 4 or 5 pound whole chicken if you are feeding just one or two people. This will be enough for dinner and some lunch sandwiches or salads the next day. If you are serving more than 4 or 5 people, you should prepare two whole chickens to plan for enough food.

The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) Healthy U.S.-Style Eating Pattern recommends the average person eat 26 ounces of poultry (including chicken) per week. Per day, this would be roughly the same as eating 3.5 ounces of chicken breast.

However, there is a simple figure to provide you with a solid starting point: 1/4 of a pound per fully grown chicken per day. This means each chicken will eat approximately 1.5 pounds of feed in a week.

Feed for Meat Chickens

Don't feed broiler varieties of chicken feed to laying hens, since the excess protein can be detrimental to their health.

How many bags of feed for 100 broilers in 6 weeks? ›

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Chickens can gain weight rapidly, so overfeeding your chickens can cause them to gain weight and potentially become obese. Increased body weight in hens is one of the main causes of footpad dermatitis, a complicated condition that causes severe necrotic lesions and painful inflammation.

Best Practices to Feed Chickens

There are many chicken owners who only put the feed outside twice a day. This is actually a really great way to feed your chickens while cutting down on the pest population. By keeping food and water out of your coop, you'll likely keep mice, rats, and other pests out of your coop.

Feed that is stored in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight has a shelf-life of approximately 6 months from the date of manufacturing. Feed should never be stored directly on the ground, concrete, or metal as those surfaces draw moisture and may cause mold growth.

Dine a Chook recommends a high-protein chicken feed

We are always happy to advise you on how to care for your chickens, and what to feed them. For laying hens, we recommend a crumbed or pelleted feed (not a grain mix!) with a minimum of 17% protein and 4% calcium.

I'd serve no fewer than 10 chickens, which means four parts per person. 5 chickens would mean two parts per person, which might be enough for most, but you can't control what people serve themselves.

As a general rule, a coop should give each chicken about 4 square feet of space. Chickens need room to scratch and dust bathe. Make sure the coop you choose for your hens allows for ample space for them to move freely. Overcrowded coops can lead to unhealthy conditions and raise the risk of disease among your hens.

How Much Feed Do My Chickens Need? Your chickens should have a constant supply of food throughout the day. Chickens will eat when they need it and should go to bed with a full crop as they need lots of food to produce eggs. A fully grown chicken will typically eat about 120 grams of layers pellets a day.

An adult, laying chicken will eat about 1.75 lbs of feed a week. That translates to about 3.5-4 ounces (about 1/4 lb.) a day which roughly measures out to about 1/2 cup of feed per chicken per day.

What to feed chickens by age chart? ›

Meat and bone meal poultry pellets have a good mixture of protein and minerals, especially calcium for stronger egg shells. For an average sized adult chicken, you will need to feed them approximately 120 to 140 grams per hen.