Poultry Feed Formulation: How to Make your Own Poultry Feed (HD)

how to produce your own chicken feeds chicken feed accounts for more than 80 percent of the cost of poultry production right now the increasing cost of feeds is driving many poultry farmers out of business making your own feeds would cut down costs while increasing the profit margin of your poultry farming in this video i'm going to show you how to make your own chicken feed success in the poultry farming business mostly depends on feeding quality feed and feed formulation system for proper growth egg production and good health poultry birds require energy in order to obtain the desired growth rate you must have to purchase and provide highly nutritious poultry feed except for adequate and quality feeding you can't run your business properly as a poultry farmer you should always produce and sell fresh and healthy birds and quality eggs for producing quality eggs and meat you have to feed your birds quality feed this will also help to get maximum returns from your poultry farming business if you are planning or you are already into poultry farming and you wish to hit it big then your poultry birds feeding is something you should take very seriously some farmers are now reducing feed rations served to their birds due to the high cost of feeds some of the feeds out there are adulterated as a result many poultry farmers in different parts of the world want to know how they can make their own feeds in order to cut down costs of production feeds account for more than 80 percent of production costs a farmer who manages to bring down this cost to about 60 to 50 percent will make good returns in the poultry business in the past conventional thinking has been that farmers cannot make their own feeds and especially to feed foreign breeds of chickens but i came to understand that this mindset has constrained efforts of the more enterprising farmers who have the needed skills to make their own feeds in fact some farmers are already formulating their own high quality feeds on the farm and do not rely on commercial feeds whose cost keep rising every day besides the quality of some feeds is so poor that poultry farmers using such feeds incur unnecessarily huge losses farmers who formulate and make their own feeds at home or farm save a lot of money which is a great help for those doing commercial production now i'm going to show you how to make your own feeds and cut down production costs formulating broiler feed broilers have different feed requirements in terms of energy proteins and minerals during different stages of their growth therefore it is important that farmers adapt feed rations to these requirements for maximum production young broilers have a high protein requirement for the development of muscles feathers etc as the broilers grow their energy requirements for the deposit of fat increase and their protein requirements decrease they require high protein content in their starter rations than in the grower and finisher rations broilers should have a feed that has between 22 to 24 digestible crude protein dcp the following guidelines can help the farmer to make the right feed at each stage of growth formula for 100 kilograms of broiler starter feed one to four weeks 57.2 kilograms of whole maize 17.2 kilograms of fish meal 20 kilograms of soya bean meal 5.8 kilograms of lime 140 grams of premix eg veet and minerals toxin binder and growth enhancers amino acids to add 70 grams of lysine 70 grams of threonine formula for 100 kilograms of broiler finisher feed greater than 4 weeks may is 44 kilograms soybean full fat 34 kilograms ground nut cake 2 kilograms brew a dry grain 12 kilograms mesophyll 4 kilograms bone meal 3 kilograms methionine 0.25 kilograms or 250 grams lysine 0.25 kilograms or 250 grams vitamin mineral premix 0.25 kilograms or 250 grams salt 0.25 kilograms or 250 grams you should add 10 20 grams each of toxin binder coccidiostat and growth enhancers like zinc bacitracin the above feed formula contain metabolizable energy of kcl kg equals 3038.80 calcium content of 1.19 and crude protein of 21.05 percent important tips on feed preparation when making homemade feed rations it is important to do experimental trials isolate a number of chickens feed them and observing their performance if the feed rations are right the broilers will grow fast and the layers will increase egg production at least one egg after every 27 hours farmers should be very careful with the quality of feed ingredients or raw materials poultry especially chickens are very sensitive to feeds that contain mycotoxins which are present in most of the raw materials never use rotten maize to make chicken feed buy quality fish meal from reputable companies if local fish meal is used you must be sure of its quality it is very important to mix all the micronutrients amino acids and premix first before mixing with the rest of the feed poultry feed formulation ingredients differs from place to place it depends on the availability of raw materials used in making poultry feed some places use different ingredients to supplement the needed nutritional requirements for the birds disclaimer poultry feed formulation website and its staff will not be held responsible for any damages caused by the provided fee formula it is just a sample guide for you to make your own poultry feed if you liked this video please subscribe to our channel and hit the bell button to be notified for our future videos thank you

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Length: 7min 19sec (439 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 30 2020