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.
In terms of chick feed there is two types, either layers pellets or growers pellets. Obviously layers pellets are for egg producing birds and growers pellets are for chickens that are destined for the dinner table. Chicken feed pellets are normally 3mm in diameter, this is half the diameter of the standard 6mm fuel pellet.