Saturday, September 23, 2017

Chicken Feed Formula

Chicken Feed Recipe or Formula


Problematic on Chicken Farm is the prices of chicken feed is too expensive make farmer can’t get benefit from their farming. For large farming they can negotiate the price of chicken feed from industry directly so they can have low price for chicken feed. Big farming still can have high benefit of their farming even their product also can down too low for sell in huge party, if they don’t have market theirown.

To produce chicken feed by yourself, you need several raw materials as follows:

  • Corn and soybean meal: May be many base raw material to produce chicken feed but the usual use soybean meal and bran. Corn and soybean meal can provided in huge quantity and bran is a waste of rice mill that still content high protein.
  • Fish-meat or Meat meal: Additional protein for chicken feed need animal protein that can be taken from fish-meat or meat meal. Beside animal protein fish-meat and meat meal also provide calcium and phosphorous says about 2 percent on it. If you buy in shop you can get fish-meat powder.
  • Additional Calcium and Phosphorous: Chicken feed formulation still need additional calcium and phosphorous from other source.
  • Salt is add about 0.2 to 0.5% for poultry diet.
  • Lipids supplement: Lipids is important for poultry diet to increase energy utilization in your poultry by reducing the passage rate. Lipid also reduce heat increment.
  • Yellow pigment: yellow pigment is use to make egg yolk color, if no yellow pigment on your poultry feed then egg yolk can have pale color, this is not interested, but too much yellow pigment can make all organ color become yellow. The best pigment color is from corn or maize, because this is a natural yellow pigment.
  • Other additional additives like antibiotics can be added to control diseases and stimulate the growth of chicken. Different country can be different name of antibiotic for chicken sold in the market.
Bran

Maize bran

Fish meat powder

Calcium powder

Nutrient Composition of Chicken Feed


The percentage of stater and grower are little different for stater and Grower. For Grower chicken need carbohydrate content higher than stater but stater need higher protein than grower.

Here are the compositions, the unit is on weight % of each component:


Coarse ground grain (corn, wheat, barley, oat groats, etc)
  • Stater = 45.5
  • Grower = 49
Wheat bran, mill feed, rice bran, milling by product, etc:
  • Stater = 12
  • Grower = 18
Soybean meal, peanut meal, canola meal, pea meal, sunflower meal, sasame meal, lentil meal, chickpea meal, etc.:
  • Stater = 28
  • Grower = 18.5
Fish meat, meat meal, bood meal:
  • Stater = 5
  • Grower = 5
Alfafa meal or other vegetable meal:
  • Stater = 4
  • Grower = 4
  • Vitamin supplement: as enough need by poultry feed this any their own formulation of each type of vitamin product.
  • Salt with trace minerals: 0.5 % for all chicken feed.
  • Bone meal, deflourinated dicalcium phosphate need 2% for all chicken feed type.
  • Ground lymestone, marble, oyster shell, etc. Need 1 – 2 percent.

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