CANDY'S EGG FOOD RECEIPE



INGREDIENTS:

6     Hard Boiled Eggs chopped (without shells) Boil 30 minutes in salted water
8C   Crumbled Corn Bread (chop in food processor )
2C   Cooked Seed Mixture
1C   Cooked Couscous
1C   Uncooked oatmeal flakes or shredded wheat biscuit
1C   Graham cracker crumbs
1C   Vegetables
      Add the Dry Ingredients

CORN BREAD PREPARATION:

2C flour, 2C cornmeal, 2C milk, 1/4 C vegetable oil, 1 egg, 2T baking power. Spray Pam into the baking pan and bake at 350 for 1 hour. You can add to this receipe any of the following seeds for flavor: poppy, caraway, lettuce, anise or sesame seed.

COOKED SEED MIXTURE:

Use all seeds or mix and match what you have on hand. Mung beans (sm. green), sm. brown lentils, sm. red lentils, quinoa, safflower seed, hemp seed, roller mix, hulled oats, brown rice, sm. pasta. You can cook a cup of each or more. I just boil the seeds until they become soft. I rinse them through a small mesh plastic strainer until the water runs clear. Let drain 30 minutes. You can keep this cooked seed in the refrigerator in an air tight container or put into small zip lock bags and freeze. Then you can use as needed.

VEGETABLES:

7:00 AM Feeding:      1C chopped broccoli,cabbage or Zucchini.
3:00 PM Feeding:      1C frozen peas (place in strainer & run under hot water).

Place them in whole or chopped in a food processor and mix in. In the latter they waste less. Hens that do not feed well will usually feed peas. It's easier on them. One pea and the chick is stuffed for the night. I find that my birds look forward to a little variation from the AM to the PM feeding.

DRY INGREDIENTS: Added at the end to the mixture above.

Add 1 T (tablespoon) of each of the following: Petamine, Powder Calcium or Grated Cuttlebone, Multiple Vitamins, Orange Flavored Cod Liver Oil, Bee Pollen, Brewers Yeast or Beer Yeast, Ground Hemp, Unflavored Gelatin, Spirulina, Garlic Powder, Kelp Seed (source of iodine), Liquid Vitamin C (ascorbic acid keeps the gut acidity level high & keeps the egg food from souring).

REMEMBER TO KEEP EGG FOOD MOIST BUT NOT WET. This receipe can be use all year round for breeding, weaning chicks and during the molt. Birds require good nutrition all year.