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growing field peas /wheat/barley/oat mix for chickens

At least around here, if you mix all those, the peas would have already matured, escaped the pods, and germinated into a new crop by the time the grains were ready to harvest.
 
It's a good idea and it makes great feed. Use the varieties common to your area but you are going to have to swath it for the very reason mentioned. Lots of folks do that for cattle and pig feed.
Mix of the grains will vary depending on moisture available throughout the year and the terrain of your fields. In hollows that stay a little damp, you will get lots of peas and not much wheat, the reverse on drier knolls. Your mix at harvest will be different than what you planted.
 
We used to grow a pea / oats mixture for dairy feed
We would cut them while both oats and peas were green to avoid too much shelling.
We needed to cut them with a mower conditioner with a crimper. Without crimping, the peas would not dry in the windrow.
They made great feed, much heavier for a given volume than alfalfa, very high protein, the cows loved it.
 
I have grown 1000 s of acres of each,but only once in the same field did I grow oats and peas. You will need to swath if cropping any combination. If weed control (chemical) is required you are severely limited with the combo crop. Also if you have present or add much nitrogen for the wheat,barley,oats then your peas tend to be all vine and not much pea seed. This can be difficult to swath. Somehow I don't think you are talking big acreage here, but even 5 acres could be pretty frustrating without the right equipment. Grow seperately, mix and feed.
 
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