How to Use chicken feed in a Sentence

chicken feed

noun
  • Ten bucks? That's chicken feed!
  • The project cost almost a million dollars, which isn't exactly chicken feed.
  • The winning rooster's owner takes home a $5 prize and a bag of chicken feed.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Members mail those grounds to Mill, which uses it to make chicken feed.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The main recurring cost will be the chicken feed, which a 60-pound bag could last about six weeks for four chickens.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 26 Jan. 2023
  • One day, the farmer heads out on a journey, taking along the friendly fox, two chickens, and a huge sack of chicken feed.
    Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The 330 million or so users on Twitter now are chicken feed for Facebook.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Higher prices for things like corn and soybeans, for instance, are driving up the cost of chicken feed.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Social media users claim to have found a new culprit for sky-high egg prices: chicken feed.
    CBS News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • One of the major components of chicken feed is soy, which is extremely cheap and widely used across the world.
    Matt Reynolds, Wired, 15 Feb. 2022
  • When candy corn first came out, roughly half of Americans worked on farms, and the treat was designed to look like chicken feed.
    Brandon Griggs and Christina Maxouris, CNN, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The company makes high-quality dog foods and treats, horse food, chicken feed.
    Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Nation/World Social media users claim to have found a new culprit for sky-high egg prices: chicken feed.
    Josh Kelety, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And with all due apologies to one of the best mascots in broadcasting history, that ain’t chicken feed.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2022
  • Candy corn was designed to look like chicken feed, since at the time candy corn first emerged, about half of Americans worked on farms.
    Noah Sheidlower and Radhika Marya, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Ukraine is a major producer of corn and wheat, which are components of chicken feed.
    Bloomberg News, oregonlive, 31 May 2022
  • Egg prices would have been higher even without the flu, Anderson said, because of the rising cost of the corn and soybean meal used for chicken feed.
    Dee-Ann Durbin, oregonlive, 16 Nov. 2022
  • That’s chicken feed compared with the more than 300 million tons of meat consumed around the world — a number that is only expected to grow.
    Linda Qiu, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • The insects will be fed waste from Morrison’s fruit and vegetable processing site in the U.K. and will replace soya as a source of protein in the group’s chicken feed.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Prices have soared as inflation pushed up the price of chicken feed, transportation, and labor, but the main factor has been an outbreak of bird flu.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
  • On the surface, that sounds like turning two lumps of chicken feed into one big serving of chicken salad.
    Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But there is no evidence that altered chicken feed is driving steep egg prices.
    Josh Kelety, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • One company burned the oyster shells for lime; another smashed them for chicken feed.
    Murray Carpenter, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • That's chicken feed for the boy's grandfather, J. Paul Getty (Plummer), an oil magnate regarded as the richest man in the world.
    Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Countless insects also hovered around chicken feeds and throughout the farm.
    Kristine Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • High demand for chicken feed is also a factor in rising costs, with some in the UK claiming chicken could soon be as expensive as beef.
    Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 10 May 2022
  • My grandmother was running around in the hot San Fernando Valley sun at 72, hauling big bags of rabbit feed and chicken feed around.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Officials said the bear had been visiting Ocala Springs Elementary School at night for weeks and eating chicken feed used by the school’s agriculture club.
    USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The studies cited in the video discuss feed efficacy and poultry breeding, not RNA sequencing in chicken feed.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That’s not chicken feed, especially for a guy on a budget like Huddy, an aircraft mechanic.
    Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 18 June 2018

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