Category Feeding and Watering

A frozen waterer is never just a frozen waterer. A hen drinks roughly twice as much water as she eats feed by weight — the numbers are in our guide to how much chickens eat and drink a day —…

Short answer first: feed starter from hatch to about 8 weeks, grower from 8 weeks to 18 weeks, and layer feed only once your hens are laying, or right at 18 weeks if the first egg is clearly days away.…

Here is the number worth knowing before you buy anything: a laying hen eats about a quarter of a pound of feed a day. But with an open pan or trough feeder, a real share of that feed never reaches…

Short answer first: a laying hen eats about 1/4 pound of feed a day — roughly 110 to 120 grams. In a scoop, that comes out to around 3/4 to 1 cup of pellets depending on pellet size, but weigh…