chicken feed
Example Sentences
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As desperation set in, long after residents had eaten all the chickens, they resorted to eating the chicken feed, grinding it down and making bread out of it.
From Seattle Times
Food and Drug Administration approved it for chicken feed in 2018, while EU approval for poultry and pigs is due later this year.
From Seattle Times
She isn’t the toddler hiding from a massacre while surviving on chicken feed after her parents were slaughtered.
From Washington Post
She says she helps defend the community from fires and resupplies neighbors with water, generators, gasoline, shovels and chicken feed.
From Seattle Times
We came after the era when vocational training was a requisite, but before the 2008 crash, when media jobs were rarer than hens’ teeth and salaries reduced to chicken feed.
From The Guardian
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