Well, Dad wanted me to talk about the change in chicken feed we implemented recently. Hi, I'm Ella, one of the care takers of our animals and I do the research behind the feed given to our animals to make sure they have proper nutrients.
We have about 40 hens and this past winter our egg count drop to an average of 7 a day. We were barely able to keep up with our own egg consumption, let alone have enough to provide for those who usually bought eggs from us.  This lead me to do a bit of research on homemade chicken feed.  I found calculator very helpful on monitoring protein and fat levels (I'll put the link in the comments). I found a bunch of grains and seeds chickens can eat including: corn, oats, sunflower seeds, millet, split peas, flax seed, wheat, sesame seeds, barley, etc.. Chickens should have a steady diet of about 16% crude protein, with a little more protein during molting season but not exceeding 21%. When finding the proper mix for my birds I gave them a few samples to my chickens and observed how they ate them. Then built my feed. My feed consists of cracked corn, oats, alfalpha pellets, sunflower seeds, and a Layer Omega-3 mix. The end results of our homemade chicken feed was outstanding, within a couple of days our egg count went back up to about 20 eggs a day, our chicken health soared and above all they were really happy about their food! 

One morning before we let out the birds for the day 2 roosters got our of our rooster pen. Our rooster pen is where we put our overflow of roosters before butcher. Having too many roosters is not good for your hens, depending on the breed of rooster its about 1 rooster to 15-25 hens. We have 2 roosters out with the hens, Hei Hei and Maui.  We choose them out of the other roosters because they seemed to respect the hens more. Well, back to the story, Silas accidently let 2 roosters out into the rest of the barn with the hens and our good roosters. Silas was mad that they escaped and left the barn. A little while later Matthew and I (Ella) went into the barn to make sure the hens were not getting pestered and to attempt to get them. When we entered the barn the hens were all happily in the front part of the barn while the 4 roosters were in the back fighting. Hei Hei and Maui had both fought the roosters to protect the hens and after their dominance was asserted the other 2 roosters came willingly back into their pen. We were unsure that they were going to protect them up until that day when they protected the hens from the other 2 roosters.