DIY Chicken Flock Block
These DIY chicken flock blocks are easy to customize with stuff you already have on hand. And you can bake them in different size pans, depending on how you like to feed your flock! *This post may contain affiliate links, which means I may receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through a link.*
Chickens are just hardwired to always be looking for food. They are always looking for that next treat, aren’t they? That’s where a hanging flock block comes in handy.
Have you ever bought one of those huge flock blocks and your girls loved it but it was so big it got ruined? I’ve bought a few over the years and loved the idea of them but mine either got ruined by rain or eaten by mice. So I decided to make my own. I’ll show you how I did it.
First the wet ingredients
- 4 Eggs
- 1/2 cup Molasses
- 1/2 cup Bacon Grease
- Egg shells (I save the shells from whatever eggs we cooked for breakfast to add in. It adds extra calcium)
Next the dry ingredients
- 1 cup Chicken Food
- 2 cups Scratch (Check out how I make my own here!)
- 1/2 cup Mealworms (You can find those here)
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Cayenne
- 1 cup Shredded Carrots ( I used dried carrots that I had in food storage but fresh would work well too)
- 1 cup Black Oil Sunflower seed (You can find those here)
- 1/2 cup Oats
- 1/2 cup Flax seed
- 1/4 cup Whole Wheat Flour
- 1/2 cup Cornmeal
- 1/2 cup Craisins
Next add your wet ingredients to your dry ingredients. I baked mine in a mini bundt cake pan because I wanted to be able to hang them with a string. But I have also baked them in muffin pans. I wanted mine a smaller size so there was less waste. Bake them at 350 for 15-20 minutes. You could try baking them in a smaller bread pan or bundt pan if you wanted bigger ones and just increase the bake time. Watch your flock blocks in the oven until they are a golden brown. Let them cool in the pan for awhile or they will fall apart when you take them out.
It’s funny but as they were baking, one of my kiddos said they smelled good. I said, well, you probably wouldn’t want to eat them! My chickens went wild for them, though. I like that they are small and I can put a couple out each day and store the rest in a sealed container.
If you enjoyed this post, you might like my DIY Chicken Scratch. You can check that out here! Happy farming!
