What should be noted when mixing chicken daily rations?

There are many kinds of chicken feed; which feed should be the main one? How can it be mixed scientifically and rationally while also being low in price?

1. First, you must understand what nutrients the chickens you raise need. Because the requirements of various chickens differ, such as light-layer chickens, heavy-layer chickens, or meat chickens, chicks, older chickens, or breeding chickens, the nutrients needed by various chickens are not completely the same in quantity and quality. @#@230@#@ farmers should, according to chicken breed

and size, consult the corresponding materials to determine the required nutrients.

2. You need to know which type of feed produced locally is more abundant, lower in price, and sufficient in supply.

3. A well-mixed daily ration should not only meet the chicken's requirements in quantity, but also satisfy the chicken's needs for growth, development, and egg production in nutrition, with good palatability and low cost.

4. When calculating the daily ration, you must master the nutritional theory and practical methods for chickens, calculating both the cheapest feed and a complete daily ration.

5. The standard for judging whether a chicken daily ration is well mixed mainly depends on feed conversion efficiency. The higher the feed conversion efficiency and the shorter the raising period, the lower the cost will be.

6. Feed in crumb form is better; if it is too finely ground, the chicken's feed intake will decrease. Low-energy pellet feed produces faster weight gain. For young hens, pellet feed should be restricted to avoid becoming too fat before laying. For adult hens, mixed mash is best to avoid eating too much and becoming too fat. However, in summer, small

cage-raised hens may use it appropriately, which can increase feed intake.

7. Different breeds and different strains of chickens use different formulas and cannot be treated uniformly. During beak trimming, flock transfer, transport, or disease outbreaks in the flock, feed the so-called fortified feed of good quality containing vitamins and antibiotics, to prevent disease occurrence through feeding management.

8. When determining the protein content in feed, both the energy level in the daily ration and the balance of various nutrients must be considered. Such as protein and amino acid balance, crude fat and crude fiber content in the daily ration, vitamin requirements, mineral supplementation; trace elements and antibiotics are generally added

in the form of additives to the feed; only then can the selected and mixed daily ration be considered complete.

9. Moldy or spoiled feed must not be fed to chickens; such feed can easily cause aflatoxin poisoning. Appropriate mold inhibitors should be added to the feed.

10. The variety of feed combinations should be many, but the main types should have a certain proportion, and you should have a clear idea when combining them.

Cereal grains account for 40%-60%, with 2-3 kinds providing energy; bran and middlings account for 10%-30%, with 1-2 kinds, providing energy and B vitamins; oilseed cakes account for 10%-20%, with 1-2 kinds, providing protein; minerals account for 2%-8%, with 2-3 kinds, used to supplement calcium and phosphorus; dried grass meal accounts for 3%-5%; animal-based feed accounts for 3%-15%, with 1-2 kinds, to supplement protein and the essential methionine, cystine, and lysine; additives account for 0.05%-0.25%, added in proportion to supplement vitamins and antibacterial, anticoccidial, and deworming drugs; salt accounts for 0.3%-0.5% of the daily ration.