What is Chicken Feed?
Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese, and other domestic birds. Before the twentieth century,
poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm.
How To Make Chicken Feed In South Africa
How to make Chicken Feed for Layers
- 100 kg Wheat
- 100 kg Oats
- 100 kg Corn (Milieus)
- 60 kg Soybeans
- 10 kg of Calcium (make your own powdered calcium from egg shelves)
This is a very basic recipe and you will get the most eggs from your farming operation. It’s been tested and works well.
How to make Chicken Feed For Broilers
- 100 kg Corn (Mielies)
- 70 kg Soybeans
- 10 kg Oats
- 10 kg Crushed Luserne
- 10 kg Bone or Fish meal
- 5 kg Calcium
- 7 kg Poultry Nutri Balancer – You can buy this at most Agricultural Shops.
A lot of people are against bone and fish meal so here is an alternative recipe for chicken feed.
How to make Basic Broiler Feed
- 100 kg Barley
- 50 kg Wheat
- 50 kg Corn (Mielies)
We have used this recipe many times and our chickens were ready to sell at around 75 days. (2.8 kg in weight – that is way too big, but we like selling BIG chickens.
What is the formula for making chicken feed?
Corn 60%, bran 10%, bean cake 22%, fish meal 6%, bone meal 2%. (2)60% yellow corn, bran, 5% locust powder (or alfalfa powder),
13% fried soybeans, 10% peanut cake, 0.9% calcium lactate, 0.1% probiotic, ammoniated Choline 0.3%, Venus vitamin 0.04%, trace elements 0.16%, table salt 0.5%.
What is a good mix for chicken feed?
Making layer feeds involve mixing grains such as cracked corn, wheat, split peas, oats, and kelp powder.