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Family
The best nutrition for your
backyard chickens
(BPT) - Raising backyard chickens has been a growing trend in the United States over the past several years. Con- sumers crave choice in their family’s diet, which often includes food they have grown or raised themselves. Rais- ing a backyard flock helps consumers have more control over the eggs their family eats, but bringing home chicks for a backyard flock is just the begin- ning.
The happiest backyard chickens have the healthiest diets, and the best eggs come from hens eating the most nutri- tious feed. Today, we are increasingly focused on the impact food has on our family’s health. Hobbyists like to feed their flock the way they feed them- selves: non-GMO, organic, soy-free,
omega-free and all natural.
Having a say in what goes into the
food their family eats is one of the main reasons people choose to raise backyard chickens. There are 2.9 million house- holds in the U.S. raising chickens, and 62 percent of backyard hobbyists antic- ipate adding to their flock in the next three years. Raising chickens is a way to extend food supply, and hobbyists don’t plan to scale back.
Providing healthy food for your family begins with the source. Nutre- na poultry feed makes it easy by using wholesome ingredients in its selection of affordable, homegrown, healthy poultry feeds. By providing your chick- ens with the highest-quality nutrition, you’re sure to have the freshest eggs for
that Sunday morning family breakfast. With companies like Whole Foods
Market reporting 426 percent growth in non-GMO sales from 2010 to 2014, it’s evident that consumers want to know what they’re eating. That’s why Nutrena also offers a USDA-certified organic line of poultry feed that is non-GMO.
The Nutrena poultry feed portfolio includes three different feed lines for each type of poultry hobbyist. Whether you’re starting your chicks, supporting your layers or raising meat birds, Nutre- na poultry feed offers the nutrition they need.
For more information about the full line of Nutrena feed, visit NutrenaWor- ld.com.
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