Thrifty Chicken Food

So yesterday we spent an hour or so walking around the corn field picking up ears that when combining had been missed.  I'm not sure why why the chickens aren't out there picking but maybe they're just lazy.  Today I have to run in get my pay check and then do some shopping.  It really makes me realize I need a new job when my fiance will work 3 days of overtime and make more then I will in a month...yea...to bad he is paying off his house and paying to fix up the barn.  I keep telling him when he brings me home a bunch of corn I need some more chickens since I just have bantam chickens and they don't lay worth crap they are good moms though.