I Fed 10 Hens for 30 Days on the Amish $1.25/Week System - Here's What It Cost!

🔗 Cut Your Feed Bill With The Complete Notch Method I Use: https://www.levilapp.online/hens-feed We said never pay for chicken feed again and put a number on it - $1.25 a week. Here is the actual 30-day ledger for ten hens. Everybody in this corner of the internet will tell you they feed their hens for next to nothing. Almost nobody shows you the paper. So we kept one. Thirty days, ten laying hens, and every single ounce that went into those birds written down on the day it went in. What came out of the kitchen. What came off the ground. What had to be bought with money. All of it weighed, none of it estimated. The number that came out is not the number the arithmetic predicted, and the reason why is the part of this system that nobody explains. It is not complicated. It is not a trick. But once you have seen it you will never plan a flock the same way again, and you will understand exactly why your feed bill does not fall the way you expect when you start doing this. We also priced the ordinary way of doing it - what a sack of chicken feed costs on the shelf this month, tipped into the feed bin the way most people buy it - so you can see the two side by side and judge for yourself. And there is a bag-weight trap at the feed store that quietly costs careful people a quarter more per pound. We show you that too. If you have been told you can grow free chicken feed, plant a tree and feed them forever, or cut the chicken feed cost to nothing - this is the video that weighs those promises instead of repeating them. Some of it holds up better than you would think. Some of it does not survive January. This is not a confession and it is not a walk-back. When we published the original figure we said on camera that your number moves with your yard, your winter and your flock size, and that we were giving you the formula rather than a promise. This video is that promise being kept. What we cover: - The full 30-day chicken feed ledger, itemised and weighed - What kitchen scraps actually deliver, in pounds, not in theory - What a run's own ground contributes across a month - How much feed 10 chickens really eat, and what that costs at today's grain price - Why adding hens makes every bird more expensive, not less - The winter gap, and what it does to the annual figure - The three things this system does not cover, and what they cost to fix If you keep hens, or you are working out whether you can afford to, this is the arithmetic nobody hands you. CHAPTERS 0:00 The chicken feed bill nobody shows you 2:51 The $1.25 a week claim, and what it actually meant 4:44 Thirty days of chicken feed, weighed 6:48 Free chicken feed - what scraps and pasture really cover 8:04 Why more hens cost more per bird, not less 10:11 How much feed do 10 chickens eat in a month 12:10 What a sack of chicken feed costs this month 13:34 The feed store bag-weight trap 14:56 What this system does not cover 18:34 The real cost of feeding chickens per month --- More from The Amish Harvest: - The original $1.25/week claim, the one this video audits - Why a hen digs rather than pecks - the mechanism that makes the ground leg work #chickenfeed #backyardchickens #chickenfeedcost #homesteading #amish