Description and composition of ready-made feed for chickens, creating a mixture with your own hands

When growing broilers or laying hens, the use of compound feed for chickens is a mandatory element of the technology. Balanced in composition and having a high nutritional value, such feeds allow to achieve normal growth, reduce the risk of diseases and digestive disorders in young chickens. All this allows you to grow a healthy and productive bird in the future.

Composition of feed for chickens

Such combination feeds consist of the following components:

• cereals;
• samp;
• meal;
• finely ground fish bone meal;
• chopped grass;
• yeast used for feed purposes;
• common table salt;
• lime materials.

In addition, vitamins and minerals necessary for the bird must be added to the compound feed..

Advantages and disadvantages

The main advantages of using compound feed are as follows:

• the formation of a healthy body in young animals;
• high nutritional value;
• no need for additional supplementation.

The disadvantages of such feed mixtures include:

• high price;
• to avoid the death of young animals, you have to carefully select a certain brand of compound feed;
• the naturalness of the compound feed is sometimes questionable. In this case, you have to focus on a trusted manufacturer.

List of the best feeds

Depending on the age of the chickens in which the formulations are used, all compound feeds are divided into three categories:

• starting - up to 14 days of age;
• growth - at the age of 14 to 30 days;
• finishing - used for young animals, starting from the age of 30 days.

Start

This starter compound feed is used for young animals from the first days of their life and during the next 2 weeks. It contains components such as finely ground kernels of corn, cereals and legumes. Often this feed contains chalk, flour from ground bones, amino acids, and vegetable fats.

Its daily consumption rate is 10-25 grams per head of young animals. To increase the effectiveness of such a feed, crushed boiled eggs, cottage cheese with a low percentage of fat, and green grass mass are additionally added to it.

Sun

Such compound feed is used for feeding young animals aged from 14 to 30 days. It contains the same ingredients as the Start brand. Additionally, green mass, proteins are not added to the mixture, since it is completely balanced. This brand differs from others by its high price.

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PC-5

Compound feed PK-5 is produced in 3 types: starting; growth; finishing. Thanks to this variety, it is used to feed young animals of all ages.

Its main ingredients are finely ground corn and wheat grains, soybean meal, rapeseed cake, rapeseed oil, corn gluten, sugar beet molasses, pork fat, soda, vitamin supplements, various amino acids necessary for chickens, phosphate, finely ground rock salt.

PC-6

The PK-6 mixture is intended for feeding broiler chickens over 30 days of age. The mixture includes the following components:

1. Wheat and corn flour;
2. Sunflower cake.
3. Soybean meal.
4. Fine flour from fish bones.
5. Vegetable oil.
6. Limestone.
7. Vitamins essential for chickens.
8. Minerals.
9. Salt.

PC-2

This brand is used for feeding chickens aged from 30 to 60 days. The mixture consists of such components as corn, wheat, sunflower meal, meat and bone fish meal, fat, salt, limestone, vitamin-mineral-protein premix, antioxidant, antibiotic, coccidiostatic, probiotic.

Growth

Such compound feed is used for feeding young animals of 2-4 weeks of age. Its composition includes:

• proteins of various origins;
• finely ground cereals;
• amino acids;
• special additives;
• vitamin and mineral complex.

To increase the nutritional value, vegetable oil, meat and bone meal are added to the compound feed of this brand.

Finish

The basis of such a feed is made up of components with a significant protein content - such nutritional value is necessary for normal feeding of grown poultry.

The compound feed of this brand contains a large amount of wheat flour, various types of oil cakes, legumes, fodder yeast, meat and bone fish meal.

Purina

This type of combined feed mixture is used for young broilers. It consists of such components as cereal flour, soybean and sunflower meal, vegetable fats, lime materials, proteins, vitamin and mineral complex. A certain composition is selected for each age of the young.

There are 3 main brands of this combined feed mixture - Start, Grower (growth), Finisher ECO. Of these, the first two are the most popular.
Purina Start, used for feeding young animals at the initial stage, consists of such components as:

1. Corn and cereals.
2. Soybean and sunflower meal.
3. Fats
4. Proteins.
5. Limestone flour.
6. Vitamins.
7. Macronutrients.
8. Amino acids.
9. Cellulose.

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Also, this compound feed contains probiotics, various essential oils. Purina Groer brand includes:

1. Maize groats.
2. Wheat flour.
3. Soybean cake.
4. Soybean oil.
5. Sunflower meal.
6. Enzymes.
7. Limestone, ground into flour.
8. Salt.
9. Monocalcium phosphate.

To maintain immunity and strengthen the body of chickens, coccidiostatics, various minerals and vitamins necessary for young poultry are also added to such a mixture.

Making feed for chicks at home

In order to reduce the cost of raising chickens, mixed mixtures are often made by hand. The composition of the mixture depends on the age of the young animals being fed:

Before the age of 14 days, the mixture should consist of:

• 50% - ground corn kernels;
• 20% - finely ground wheat flour;
• 10% - fat-free kefir;
• 11% - sunflower cake;
• 9% - medium-ground barley flour.

For chickens at the age of 14 days, homemade compound feed is prepared, observing the following proportions:

1. Medium-ground corn flour - 50%.
2. Sunflower seed cake - 20%.
3. Milled wheat - 12%.
4. Fish bone meal - 8%.
5. Yeast - 4%.
6. Shredded grass mass - 2%.
7. Return powder - 3%.
8. Fat - 1%.

How to give feed to chickens correctly

Correct feeding of young poultry depends on its age:

1. Newborn chickens are fed 8 times a day, at the rate of 15-20 grams of feed per chick.
2. Starting from 3-4 weeks of age, the daily rate of compound feed for the chicken is increased to 100 grams.
3. 5-6-week-old chickens are given compound feed at the rate of 120-140 grams per head.

Failure to comply with these standards and overfeeding or underfeeding of chickens can lead to negative consequences - indigestion, stunting, excessive exposure to environmental factors.

How to choose food?

The choice of the brand of compound feed depends on the age and on the type of bird. So, feed suitable for laying hens, in terms of nutritional value, are not effective for young broilers. The most applicable are universal types of compound feed.