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.
chickens thrive on a varied diet that includes grain forage greens and protein free ranging chooks can get some of their protein from insects slugs snails worms and grubs poultry that are confined to a pen will need to get protein from another source in addition to kitchen scraps