I need poultry feed recipes for broilers, breeders (males and females) and replacement chickens (female,males)

Question

What are the ingredients and percentages for producing poultry feeds for broilers (0 weeks to 6-8 weeks), replacement breeders (0 weeks to 20 weeks) and production breeders (20 weeks to 82 weeks). And where can I get hard to get ingredients?

Answer 1

If you really want to make your own chicken feed it is not that hard, especially if they are free range. Chickens can get about 20% of the feed value they need from grass and protein from eating bugs and worms. If you are not going to go free range, it'll be a little more critical to get the protein correct, but still no big problem. try these sites for a more natural way of feeding your chickens. I lived on a farm in Nigeria and raised my own chickens for meat and eggs. I had to make my own feed from corn and ground nut cake (peanuts with the oil removed). They ran loose during the day and I put them up at night. I raised some great healthy chickens.

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http://www.lionsgrip.com/topics.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2107349_make-chi...

Answer 2

You can buy the feed already made you know. For the chicks, you need a starter feed specially formulated for young chicks. For the laying hens, you would want to use a laying mash which consists primarily of fine ground corn. The roosters would need a pelleted feed for production roosters but I really dont know the exact ingredients. Sorry.

Answer 3

If you have to ask this question, you are not likely in the business of preparing these feeds for poultry, so you will pay a lot of extra cost as compared to the mills who are in that business.

A lot of the art of providing these mixes comes from evaluating just those things that are available at reasonable prices right now, and what will give an adequate mix of nutrients.

That is a full time job for someone, because nobody uses a fixed formula without respect to availability and cost.

One often shorted ingredient is a supply  of lysine, available in oats and rice and soy. It is shorted because it is costly.

Inadequate lysine is not as great a problem if you are going to use them for broilers. But for growing breeding birds you should ensure they get that adequate supply of lysine. We fed chickens as breeders and found it necessary to supplement commercial ration with oats.

For pigs too. this is a limiting factor of growth. Ruminants make their own, and pigs that eat cow dung never have a deficiency.