Peck & Thrive Supercharged Chicken Forage Mix – Nutrient-rich blend to supplement backyard poultry diets.

Minimum: 500+ Seeds

Fresh Greens for Natural Foraging

Chickens do best when they get to act like chickens, scratching, pecking, and grazing instead of just eating from a feeder. This diverse forage blend combines grains, legumes, leafy greens, and root crops into one planting built to encourage exactly that, while supplementing your flock's diet with real vitamins, minerals, and fiber straight from the soil. Whether it's a backyard run, a chicken tractor, or a rotational paddock, this is a mix built to enrich both the birds and the ground underneath them.

Who Grows Peck & Thrive Supercharged Chicken Forage Mix?
The backyard flock owner wanting healthier, more active hens with natural foraging behavior.
The chicken tractor and rotational grazing user needing a fast, regrowing forage planting.
The homesteader wanting to reduce feed costs with real pasture supplementation.
The permaculture and regenerative gardener building soil health alongside poultry forage.

What This Diverse Forage Blend Actually Is
This mix combines fast-growing grains, nitrogen-fixing legumes, and deep-rooted crops selected for backyard poultry forage and soil improvement. It grows quickly in most soils and climates, with many components regrowing after light grazing.

• Grains and quick cover: Annual Ryegrass, Perennial Ryegrass, Buckwheat, Flax, Millet.
• Nitrogen-fixing legumes: Forage Pea, Red Clover, Alfalfa.
• Durable grazing base: Creeping Red Fescue, durable and full of fiber.
• Leafy greens and roots: Florida Broadleaf Mustard, a spicy, pest-deterring green, and Daikon Radish, with deep roots that break soil and offer mineral content.

In the Coop & Run

• Rotational grazing: Sow across multiple areas and rotate flock access to let sections regrow.
• Chicken tractor forage: Grow ahead of a mobile coop's path for fresh forage on arrival.
• Soil-building support: Let deep-rooted crops aerate compacted ground and add organic matter.
• Feed cost reduction: Use as a genuine supplement to reduce reliance on purchased feed.
• Natural foraging behavior: Encourage scratching and pecking with a living, varied planting.
• Low-forage season backup: Plant ahead of seasonal gaps to keep fresh greens available.

Planting Chicken Forage Mix

• Start method: Broadcast evenly across prepared ground, lightly rake in, and water thoroughly.
• Timing: Plant in spring or fall depending on climate.
• Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade.
• Soil: Well-drained, loamy or average garden soil.
• Germination: Sprouts in 5-10 days under ideal conditions.
• Growth period: Allow 2-3 weeks of growth before letting chickens forage.
• Regrowth: Many species regrow after light grazing; rotate access as needed.
• Watering: Water thoroughly at planting; established stands tolerate variable moisture.
• Hardiness: Grown as an annual planting, reseeded between rotations or seasons.

Before You Close This Page
This is forage built to do double duty, feeding a healthier, more active flock while building real soil underneath them. Peck & Thrive Supercharged Chicken Forage Mix combines grains, legumes, greens, and deep roots into a planting that regrows under grazing and keeps birds foraging instead of just eating. It's easy to plant, quick to establish, and just as useful in a backyard run as a full rotational paddock system. Grow the mix that lets your flock forage, explore, and thrive the way they're meant to.