Before introducing this local chicken feed company I need to make the caveat that the giveaway is restricted to this company’s delivery area which is basically from Olympia up to Bellingham and includes the peninsula and greater Seattle area. I’m sorry for anyone out of that range!
I’ve been using this chicken feed since the insanity of trying to make my own chicken feed last summer. What I love about it is that all the ingredients come from a fairly local area but even as I write this the proprietor is sourcing ingredients from even more local sources. Yet another thing I love about this company – one of the blends contains no corn or soy at all. I’m ok with using some corn in the winter to fatten the birds up and help them weather the elements but corn is not a part of a chicken’s normal diet and soy is something I want in no way, shape or form in my family’s diet.
The only way I can truly get soy out is to raise my own chickens on a soy free feed and be sure that any meat we eat is 100% grass fed or wild. So I heart Scratch and Peck Feed from the bottom of my soy-free heart. Here is some info on them:
My name is Diana Ambauen-Meade and I own a local, small feed company called “Scratch and Peck … an eggsellent feed company” www.scratchandpeck.com.
I offer Certified Organic chicken feed in Starter, Grower and Layer Blends as well as my own proprietary whole grain Non-gmo Grower and Layer blends.
Both brands of feed are soy-free and the organic feed is also corn-free. Please take a look at the Products page on my website for the full lists of ingredients.
I am in the process of studying the feasibility of building a feed mill in which I will produce various feeds with grains sourced directly from Washington State organic farmers.
Locally sourced, locally milled and soy-free will be my focus.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to email me at drameade(at)gmail.com or call me at 360-981-8597
So to enter the drawing, which is for 2 five pound bags of chicken feed (that’s right, there will be 2 winners!) please comment to this post and on Sunday, February 21 at midnight I will close the drawing and announce a winner sometime the next day. The winners will be chosen using www.random.org’s truly random number service. Again, feel free to comment but do let me know in your comment if you are outside the delivery area to make the process a little easier on me.
Good luck!
5 responses so far ↓
1 Shannon // Feb 19, 2010 at 4:43 pm
I’d be keen. I don’t mind soy but we are also trying to cut back on the corn dependency and stick to grass fed only.
I finally got to check your blog out and its great – we met at Evan’s party at Whirlwinds a few weekends ago and I am taking your suggestion of a white wall to warm that bed.
2 Laura // Feb 19, 2010 at 11:04 pm
I would love to score some soy and corn free bags of chicken feed… what a great resource to have now!! I was just at the feed store yesterday in Bellingham having a lengthy discussion with the sales clerk about the different kinds of chicken feed. I am right in Wallingford, so definately in the delivery zone
3 Sheila // Feb 20, 2010 at 3:09 am
I’ll be getting chicks for the first time next month and can use feed. I remember collecting eggs from my cousins’ henhouse as a kid in the summer. One time I forget to wear shoes and I still remember like it was yesterday- 30 years later–the squishy poo between my toes! Yuck! But lots of fond memories I hope to impart on my young daughter, too. Thanks for supporting city chickens, Annette! Your hens are lovely, by the way. :0)
4 beth morrison // Feb 21, 2010 at 2:25 am
Thanks so much for posting this, I didnt even know they existed. We have 22 hens and 2 roosters and we are always looking for ways to mimic what they would eat when not in captivity. We give them fresh grass clippings, whole grains as a treat (though I would like to see it as a food source since reading this), weeds with lots of dirt on them from the garden and my son loves to find them grubs and roots to snack on.
Beth (snohomish)
5 admin // Feb 21, 2010 at 3:03 am
Shannon – it was lovely meeting you!
Laura – good luck – there are many kinds of chicken feed to be sure. I tried making my own last year but it cost too much money.
Sheilah – yuck! How fun for you with those little fuzzballs. Your daughter will be in love.
Beth – I’ve come to believe that chickens really just want bugs. We just quarantined the girls about a month ago when they started destroying the lawn this winter so they are eating the feed and alfalfa hay. I give them table scraps and they are tractored over wheat grass cover crop some sunny days to till it in for me but whenever I sneak them out they head right to scratch for bugs. They used to spend lots of time eating grass but right now that is not so important to them. It’s interesting. This summer I’m planting amaranth & greens for them. They naturally eat a lot of seeds. I gave them my mustard seeds last fall and they went crazy for them.
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