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.
Typically, backyard and small farm chickens also eat food scraps from the farm household-basically anything besides beans, garlic, raw potatoes, onions, and citrus. You can feed them beans, garlic and onions but the eggs might taste funky. Raw potatoes can be poisonous to chickens.