Flock Block

I had purchased a flock block from the feed store in town a while back for the chickens and it was great.  It's basically a hard block of seeds that the chickens have to peck at to get the food off.  I liked it because it covers me if their food runs out before I notice or just keeps them doing something other than going nutty.  There are loads of recipes out there so I decided it would be a fun thing for us to make now that we know the chickens like it and it's way cheaper to make your own.  The comercial ones are nice though because they last a long time and I know of folks who use them when they go out of town.

I looked at a few recipes and very loosely followed one from The Chicken Chick.  She uses marigold petals which I don't keep on hand (might look for them at the co-op though).  Here's what we used in no particular order:

Feed (what they normally eat out of their feeder)
Scratch (basically just seeds)
Oyster shells
Oats
Polenta
Cinnamon
Maple syrup
3 eggs with shells crushed and added in too
shredded apple
shredded carrots (yellow baby carrots that no one really liked)

No measuring just dumped and stirred and pressed into oiled pans that weren't holding baking soda in the basement.  It was very fun to make and the girls were very excited to make a treat for the chickens.

They also enjoyed giving them their treat and the hens LOVED it! Glad we have two.  This was also a great way to utilize a surplus of eggs that we have right now:)

Zebra, Goldie, and Red enjoying their treat.  

Then Ada checked for eggs and Emma helped me fill up their food.

Thanks for the help girls!!