Get your flock off to a healthy, strong start with our expert guidance and nutritional poultry feeding programs.
If you are raising baby chicks, your year will be filled with many fun milestones for your family to celebrate. We are happy to be with you at each step. Download this guide to raising backyard chickens for simple, actionable tips as your chicks grow.
If you’re into backyard flocks like we are, you love sharing know-how with others. Check out our advice on nutrition, coops, composting and more.
Our chicken feeds are formulated for healthy birds and nutritious eggs. Try us. You’ll see the difference for yourself.
We’re behind the national movement to make backyard flocks part of family life everywhere. Our support, products and enthusiasm are with you all the way.
Your chickens are a daily reminder that food is a gift from nature. Chickens have been delivering groceries to home long before grocery delivery was ever a thing. It’s one reason backyard flock owners love their girls. And why we love ours. At Purina, we ensure the right balance of vitamins and minerals in their food so flock owners can enjoy nutritional, delicious eggs.
Incubating eggs is a 21-day project that can be successful with care, vigilance and planning.
Laying hens require 4 grams of calcium from their chicken feed to lay eggs with strong shells. Learn more about how to provide enough eggshell calcium in their diet from Team Purina.
Provide your hens and they'll provide for you by following these three tips for quality eggs.
How do chickens digest food? How does the chicken digestive system differ from a human’s? Learn how a hen’s feed and nutrition becomes an egg.
Introducing the Purina professionals behind the research at the backyard coops at our farm.
Director of Process Research
Multi-Species Nutritionist
Senior Scientist – Purina Animal Research Center
Director of Veterinary Services