Bantam Chicken

Bantam Chickens are most typically smaller backyard chickens that can be used for meat or eggs. Diets for backyard chickens are not very specific because they can and will eat almost anything. Bantam Chickens are omnivores so they can eat garden scraps, live snakes, bugs, dairy, wheat, maize, processed pellets, etc.

Most people that have Bantam Chickens choose to feed them sustainably by feeding them fruits/veggies from their gardens and grass clippings from their yard.

The proper diet for a Bantam Chicken that is laying eggs should include

1290-1315 kcal/lb EE

15.0-19.0% CP

3.60-4.20% Ca

.32-.54% Phosphorus

(www.aces.edu)

A diet found on an online chicken feed forum suggests that a chicken is fed (Daily)

1 cup plain greek yogurt

2 cups melon

1/4 lb. maize

Water, water, water- If a chicken does not have water for one day, it can die.

This diet is a proper diet because it provides

17.4% protein

1310 kcal/lb

6.92% Ca

0.39% P