How to Make Poultry Feeds at Home to Lower the Costs of Production


Homemade Poultry Feeds

Homemade Poultry Feeds

This agribusiness article will provide you formulas on how you can make your poultry feeds at home and this will help you lower cost of feeding your poultry birds, which will maximize your farming profits in poultry.


Making Feeds for Broilers

Before we go further, firstly we should outline some of nutritional information which has to be taken into consideration

  1. Maize: Provides Carbohydrates
  2. Sunflower: Source of plant Protein
  3. Fish Meal: Provides animal Protein
  4. Methionine: Acts as growth promoters
  5. Lysine: Acts as Fattener
  6. DCP (DI-calcium phosphate): Used for bone development
  7. Broiler: Premix vitamins
  8. Stock Feed lime: Acts as blood promoters
  9. Iodised Salt: Provides Iodine


Broiler Feed Formulas

Broiler Starter (50KG)

To locally make your broiler starter 50 kilograms at home, you should firstly buy the required ingredients as indicated below and mix. You should mix the following ingredients after buying them;

  1. Maize 34kg
  2. Methionine 0.2kg
  3. Soya cake 10.5kg
  4. Broiler premix 0.2kg
  5. Fish Meal 4 kg
  6. Lysine 0.2kg
  7. DCP 0.3kg
  8. Stock feed lime 0.2kg
  9. Iodised Salt 0.4kg

Broiler growers (50KG)

To locally manufacture 50 kilograms of broiler growers, you should buy and mix the following ingredients;

  1. Maize 31kg
  2. Full Fat Soya 10kg
  3. Stock feed lime 0.25kg
  4. Sunflower 5kg
  5. Lysine 0.25kg
  6. Fish Meal 2kg
  7. Methionine 0.25kg
  8. DCP 0.5kg
  9. Broiler premix 0.5kg
  10. Iodised Salt 0.25kg

Broiler finisher

To make 50 kilograms of broiler finisher at home, you should buy and mix the following required ingredients;

  1. Maize 35kg
  2. Soya 6kg
  3. DCP 0.5kg
  4. Sunflower 8kg
  5. Salt 0.5kg

Much as we have given in detail as how you can produce 50 kilograms of broiler chickens at home, which will help you lower cost of feeding your poultry birds, it should be taken into consideration that this is not the only formula for producing these chicken feeds.

Now let's have a look on second formulas for achieving similar results of 50 kilograms of broiler chicken feeds.


Second Formula to Use

Broiler starter

To achieve similar results using the second formula for 50kg broiler starter feeds, you should buy and mix the following required chicken feds ingredients;

  1. Maize 30kg
  2. Broiler Premix 0.170kg
  3. Soya cake 17.5kg
  4. Methionine 0.335g
  5. Bone/Fish meal 0.12k g
  6. Stock feed lime 0.7g
  7. Lysine 0.2kg
  8. Iodised Salt 0.175g
  9. MCP 0.2kg
  10. Toxifin( Toxin Binder) 0.5kg
  11. Zinc Bacitracin 0.1kg

Broiler grower

For broiler growers, you should buy and mix the following ingredients using the second formula to achieve 50 kilograms of broiler growers;

  1. Maize 32kg
  2. Soya cake 17kg
  3. Toxifin( Toxin Binder) 0.05g
  4. Bone/Fish meal 0.06kg
  5. Stock feed lime 0.06kg
  6. Zinc Bacitracin 0.05g
  7. Lysine 0.1kg
  8. Methionine 0.15kg
  9. Iodised Salt 0.160kg
  10. MCP 0.2kg
  11. Broiler Premix 0.170kg

Broiler finisher

For the broiler finisher, you should buy and mix the following ingredients to produce a 50 kilograms;

  1. Maize 34.5kg
  2. Soya cake 13.88kg
  3. Broiler Premix 0.170kg
  4. Stock feed lime 0.7kg
  5. Lysine 0.130kg
  6. Methionine 0.145kg
  7. Iodised Salt 0.175kg
  8. MCP 0.2g
  9. Toxifin( Toxin Binder) 0.05g
  10. Zinc Bacitracin 0.05g


Storage

Having homemade your broiler feeds, you should always store your feeds in a dry cool place. Not in a plastic as this may reduce the quality of the feeds you have made.


For Ducks, Village Chickens and Guinea Fowl

Use any of the following ingredient formulas to homemade 50 kilograms.

First formula for achieving a 50 kilograms

Non laying

You should buy and mix the following required ingredients;

  1. Maize 30kg
  2. Wheat bran 5kg
  3. Soya full fat 4kg
  4. Sunflower 9.55kg
  5. Stock feed lime 1kg
  6. Standard layer Premix 0.1kg
  7. Iodised Salt 0.1kg
  8. Toxfin 0.25kg

Laying

For laying birds, you should buy and mix the following ingredients at home to achieve a 50 kilograms of feeds;

  1. Maize 30kg
  2. Sunflower 5kg
  3. Carophyll 0.025kg
  4. Soya cake 9.9kg
  5. Stock feed lime 3.35kg
  6. Limestone Grit 1.425kg
  7. Standard layer Premix 0.1kg
  8. Iodised Salt 0.15kg
  9. Toxfin 0.05kg

Using second formula

For non laying

You should buy and mix the following ingredients to achieve a 50 kilograms of homemade feeds

  1. Maize 24.1kg
  2. Maize bran or wheat bran 5kg
  3. Sunflower cake 4kg
  4. Soya cake 15kg
  5. Stock feed lime 1kg
  6. Chick starter/Grower Premix 0.1kg
  7. Toxfin 0,1kg
  8. Iodised Salt 0.2kg
  9. DCP 0.5kg

For three months onwards

You should buy and mix the following ingredients to achieve a 50 kilograms;

  1. Maize 30kg
  2. Carophyll 0.6kg
  3. Maize bran or wheat bran 7.5kg
  4. Sunflower cake 7.5kg
  5. Soya cake 2.5kg
  6. Stock feed lime 1kg
  7. Toxfin 0.1kg
  8. Iodised Salt 0.3kg
  9. DCP 0.5kg


Which Poultry Feeds to Give and When?

Broiler starter

This is given to your broiler birds from day 1 to 21st day to broiler chickens.

Broiler grower

This is given to broiler chickens from 22 days to week 5.

Broiler finisher

This is given from week 5 to point of sell of your broilers.


In conclusion, this agribusiness article has uncovered in detail home chicken feeds formulas which can be used at home for producing a 50 kilograms of chicken feed, which can lower the cost of production in your poultry farming business.

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