For the maintenance of poultry, you must always have a very large list of different types of feed, they should contain a lot of mineral and nutrients, which contain components such as: fats, proteins, carbohydrates and all sorts of vitamins.
All feed can be purchased in stores, but they can also be prepared by yourself.
Of course, it is easier to go to the store, as cooking homemade food is much more difficult.
But over time, you can quickly learn this.
In addition, it gives you the opportunity to save your material resources, as well as you will know what goes into your prepared feed.
Below we discuss how to prepare food for both chickens and adult birds.
How is it all the same to prepare food for the chickens yourself?
If you properly maintain and feed the chickens, this will give you a good result. Firstly, the vitality of the chickens is much higher, and in the future you will get very tasty, healthy, dietary meat and eggs.
Before you buy food for chicks you need to think very carefully, because it is the food that has a huge role in their growth and development. Nutrition affects their growth, the taste of meat, as well as their survival and viability.
It is natural to purchase food in a specialty store. This is the easiest option and takes less time. Food can also be purchased at poultry farms.
This feed will contain all the most necessary for the chickens, and it will also take into account all the preferences of birds. In this diet contains a lot of useful vitamins, elements.
But you can also spend some of your personal time and prepare the feed yourself.
But in the home feed too must contain the whole complex of vitaminswhich is contained in the purchased feed. To do this, you can prepare the simplest feed for chickens, which contains the following components: cornmeal, wheat, barley and oatmeal, as well as sunflower cake.
In order to have protein in the feed there you need to add bone or fish meal, cottage cheese. This entire list must be mixed with fresh or fermented milk. And each chicken to give thirty grams of such food. It would also be nice to give each of them a drop of fresh yeast.
During the first two weeks, the coop room must always be light onBy passing these weeks, the lighting time can be reduced to fourteen hours a day. But the first days it is necessary to monitor their behavior so that they do not bunch up and strangle each other.
It is necessary to pour fine gravel in the feeders of the chickens in order for the food to be very well digested in the stomach of the chickens.
You also need to be able to prepare food for chickens after seven days from their birth.
Chickens should be fed constantly, and in addition to the basic food from feed and milk, they must also be fed dry food. Feed must always be available for chickens. But it is also necessary to ensure that the feed does not stagnate in the feeders, so that it does not oxidize or rot.
How can you feed chickens in the first days of their lives? For their food, you can use the above mixture, but you need to add to their diet fresh greens. For this, nettle, alfalfa or cabbage will do. You can also use grated carrots or twist it in a meat grinder.
In the first days, you can add about five grams per day to their diet, and then you can increase the number of carrots to 20 grams.
Veterinarians are still advised to use their food to feed the chickens, than purchased in the store. Since homemade food is much more useful than purchased.
After feeding birds with purchased food, there can be many problems: various diseases, weakness and other troubles. Also, it is impossible to drastically change the artificial feed for food prepared by yourself, this transition should be gradual.
What should feed the chickens in the first fourteen days of their lives?
When the chicken first appears in this world, they need to be fed. In the first days of a chick's life, boiled eggs, millet, or cottage cheese are added to their diet. But over time, feed must be added to their diet.
It should contain nutrients: peas, wheat and barley, but corn flour is a very good ingredient. It very well affects their development, skeleton, musculature, and the work of the gastrointestinal tract.
Required components, which are needed to prepare their own hands at home for chickens:
- The first ingredient is ground corn, it should be half of the total mass.
- The second thing to add is wheat, it should be about 16 percent.
- Next, you need to add to this mixture of cake or sprats, their share should be about 14 percent.
- The next component is kefir, but not very fat, its share is 12 percent.
- And the last thing you need to add to the mix is the remaining eight percent of barley.
What should feed chickens from fourteen days of their lives to a month?
At this time of its development, the chicken eats about 120 grams of feed.
To prepare your own food you need to use the following components:
- The first thing that goes into the feed is corn or corn grits, which makes up 48 percent of the total mass.
- The second thing you need to add is cake or sprat in the amount of 19 percent.
- The third that is used in the feed is wheat in the amount of 13 percent.
- The fourth ingredient is fish or meat and bone meal in the amount of 7 percent.
- The fifth component is fodder yeast in an amount of 5 percent.
- The sixth thing you need to add is fresh grass about 3 percent.
- The seventh and final component is feed fat, it should be one percent.
At this age, it will be right to give the chickens a slightly hydrated feed than completely dry.
What should feed the chickens from the month before slaughter?
During this period of his life, the chicken consumes about 150 grams of feed.
To prepare your own food using the following components:
- First and foremost in the feed is corn or corn grits in the amount of 45 percent.
- The second ingredient is cake or sprat in the amount of 17 percent of the total mass.
- The third component is wheat at 13 percent.
- The fourth component is fish or meat and bone meal in the amount of 17 percent.
- The fifth thing to add is 5 percent feed yeast.
- The sixth component is fresh grass in the amount of 1 percent.
- The seventh component is chalk in the amount of 1 percent.
- And the last eighth component is 3 percent feed fat.
It is more difficult to cook food naturally and takes a lot of time to do it, it's easier to buy it. But in the home food there are a lot of advantages.
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How to make food for adult birds with your own hands?
The need for feed in that when it is snapped up by birds, egg production increases. Poultry institutes have developed recipes for poultry feed. Therefore, we will list all the components included in the feed for adult birds:
- The first component is corn weighing 450 grams.
- The second component is wheat weighing 120 grams.
- The third component is barley in the amount of 70 grams.
- The fourth ingredient is sunflower meal in the amount of 70 grams.
- The fifth ingredient is chalk in the amount of 70 grams.
- Further, it is necessary to add this meat and bone meal in the amount of 60 grams, as well as fish meal in the amount of 50 grams.
- The seventh component is fodder yeast in an amount of 40 grams.
- The eighth ingredient is grass flour or fresh grass in the amount of 30 grams.
- The ninth thing you need to add is 20 grams of peas.
- The tenth component are vitamins in an amount of 10 grams.
- And the last thing you need to add is 3 grams of salt.
This recipe for feeding chickens in 100 grams of its composition contains 268 kcal of energy, as well as 17 percent of crude protein.
The poultry institutes have developed feeds for feeding poultry, depending on their age, species, and their productivity.
What does bird feed yeast include?
Yeast feed produced in order to poultry was not beriberi.
In order to do this, you need to take about 20 grams of fresh yeast, then they must be diluted in warm water at room temperature (water must be one and a half liters), then you need to add the flour flour mixture, all this must be well mixed and left at eight hours, in a warm place with a temperature of about 20 degrees Celsius.
After the fermentation process, the entire prepared mixture is added to minerals and vitamins. This feed should be given to poultry about 20 grams per day.
Before preparing homemade food by hand, you need to know that bird nutrition should be rich in proteins and amino acids. For its preparation, animal feed, sprats, cereals and legumes, fresh yeast and cake are necessary.
Meals for laying hens (ten birds per day) cooked with his own hands consists of the following components:
- The first thing to add is boiled potatoes from 400 to 1000 grams.
- The second thing you need to add is crops in the amount of 700 grams.
- The third component is silage, combined about 400-500 grams.
- Next, add or milk or sour about 200-250 grams.
- The next thing you need to add is ground grain about 250 grams.
- The sixth component is a carrot, ground in the amount of 200 grams.
- The seventh component is wheat bran in the amount of 100 grams.
- The eighth component is fish or meat waste twisted in a meat grinder in an amount of 100 grams.
- After that add the cake or sprats about 100 grams.
- Next, you need to add small hay about 100 grams.
- You also need to add chalk in the amount of 60 grams.
- Beetroot is a necessary component of about 50 grams.
- Next, add bone meal in the amount of 20 grams.
- And the last component is salt in the amount of 5 grams.
What are germinated grains useful for?
Regardless of the age of the poultry, it is useful to feed it with germinated grain, which is very rich in vitamin B. To do this, soak the grain, and then scatter it only in that place where the sun's rays do not fall.
The temperature at which the grains should be located should be about 23-26 degrees Celsius, in this state of rest, for several days, the grains remain to germinate. But it must be constantly hydrated.
Also in the autumn and winter seasons you can feed the birds with nettles or small hay from perennial grasses such as: alfalfa, clover. These herbs will enrich the daily nutrition of birds with carotene. In summer, these herbs are added to their diet, but only fresh.
In addition to this, laying birds can ultraviolet light using the necessary lamps. If there is an insufficient amount of vitamin E in the diet of birds, it can affect the egg production of birds, which is not desirable, and the appearance of sperm in males will worsen.
Vitamin E is found in cereals, sprouted cereal grains and green fodder.
With a lack of protein, you can notice in the herd a manifestation of cannibalism, which is not a very pleasant sight. Although a sign of this disease may be an overabundance of this element. Or the wrong diet, the wrong ratio of minerals and vitamins in the feed, as well as the lack of water and salt.
What could be dangerous shortage of carbohydrates and fats in bird feed? Due to the lack of these elements, egg production in chickens may decrease, feathers may start to fall out, or the birds will become fearful. Birds can give sweet foodwhich they like very much, which contain yellow and orange components.
What vitamins should be present in the diet of birds? Vitamins must be present in the feed in any case. Vitamin A is rich in carotene, it is found in carrots, pumpkins, cabbage, beets, tomatoes. If this vitamin is not enough, then the birds may lose their appetite, decrease egg production, sometimes discharge from the eyes and nose.
You also need to monitor the presence of vitamin B. This vitamin is responsible for the formation and strengthening of the shell. It is found in fish oil.
Also important is vitamin E, which is found in cereals. But it is necessary to remember that in the grain that has lain for more than half a year, the amount of vitamin is reduced to two or more times.
You should know that the birds themselves extract vitamins, but it all depends on the territory in which they are located.
