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.
• To subscribe to the Free Press for chicken feed, click here.
  — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 Jan. 2024
• Even within the Apple juggernaut, $30 billion isn’t chicken feed!
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
• Mill is also on the hunt for partners to buy its chicken feed.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Feb. 2023
• 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
• The egg business is volatile, with avian flu affecting flocks some years and with the price of corn (chicken feed) fluctuating.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Charlotte Backus waited months for the chance to send her kitchen trash through the mail, so that a company in another state could turn it into chicken feed.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 29 Dec. 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024