Free-Range Chicken Homemade Feed Formula Sharing, a Practical Guide for Poultry Farmers

The free-range chicken is a common type of poultry in daily life and is very popular in the market, and to raise free-range chickens well, you have to feed them good feed, so what are the homemade feed formulas for free-range chickens?

The most basic feed ingredients needed to prepare free-range chicken feed are: corn, soybean meal, free-range chicken compound trace elements, free-range chicken compound vitamins, methionine, choline chloride, salt, calcium hydrogen phosphate, limestone powder, soybean oil.

The total amount of feed mixed each time should not exceed one month's usage, so as to avoid long-term storage reducing the content of nutritional components, especially the content of vitamins. Storing feed for a long time in summer also makes it prone to mold, especially high-energy broiler feed, which is extremely easy to spoil under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions.

1. Brooding period (0-4 weeks of age), unit %: corn 55.5, crude protein 19.5, No. 4 flour 7.0, wheat bran 3.0, soybean meal 21.0, fish meal 3.0, corn gluten meal 5.0, yeast powder 2.0, calcium hydrogen phosphate 1.2, limestone powder 1.0, salt 0.3, premix 1.0. The nutritional content is metabolizable energy 11.83 MJ/kg.

2. Growing period (5-8 weeks of age), unit %: corn 58.5, crude protein 17.4,, No. 4 flour 10.0, wheat bran 3.0, soybean meal 17.0, fish meal 2.0, corn gluten meal 4.0, yeast powder 2.0., calcium hydrogen phosphate 1.2, limestone powder 1.0,, salt 0.3, premix 1.0. The nutritional content is metabolizable energy 11.94 MJ/kg.

3. Fattening period (from 9 weeks of age to market), unit %: corn 61, crude protein 16.3, No. 4 flour 10.0, wheat bran 4.5, soybean meal 11.0, fish meal 1.0, corn gluten meal 4.0, yeast powder 2.5, calcium hydrogen phosphate 1.2, limestone powder 1.0, salt 0.3, premix 1.0. The nutritional content is metabolizable energy 12.25 MJ/kg.