Complementary and alternative medicines such as tea tree (melaleuca) oil have become increasingly popular in recent decades. This essential oil has been used for almost 100 years in Australia but is now available worldwide both as neat oil and as an active component in an array of products.
Conventional Grain and Legume Feeds for Chickens. Most grains in commercial feed for poultry (corn, legumes, and small grains such as wheat, rye, oats and barley) are easy for the homesteader to grow. I grow âHickory King,â a. vigorous, large-ear feed corn.
Corn will not over-heat chickens! If that was the case chickens everywhere would be over-heating since most chicken feed is loaded with corn and can have up to or around 1400 lbs of corn to 2000 lbs of feed.Also the Dent/ Field corn is not sweet.oarse sand, parakeet grit, or you can buy chick grit at MPC, but it's the same thing. Scratch has cracked corn, other coarsely chopped grains and usually some whole grains, like millet, in it.