Recipes for homemade layer chicken feeds
Once your chicks grow up
and start to lay, you want to change them off the homemade
starter/grower feeds
and onto laying feeds with 16 or 17% protein. Once again, I’m
listing several choices so that you get an idea of how to put together
your own feed recipe. The numbers in the chart indicate a percent
of the recipe by weight —
to make a hundred pounds of feed, just pretend those numbers are in
pounds.
| Generic – 15-18% protein |
Modern – 17% protein |
Modern (no alfalfa) – 17% protein |
High corn – 15% protein |
No soybeans – 13% protein |
|
| Corn (shelled or meal) |
48.25 | 48.25 | 60 | 53.5 | |
| Soybeans (roasted or meal) |
30 | 30 | 8 | ||
| Oats | 5 | 10 | |||
| Alfalfa meal (can be eliminated in on fresh pasture.) |
4 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | |
| Fish meal and/or meat meal |
3 | 7.5 | |||
| Aragonite, ground limestone, marble, or oyster shells (for calcium) |
3 | 8.75 | 8.75 | 6.35 | 3 |
| Poultry nutri-balancer |
3 | 3 | |||
| Combination of corn, milo, barley, oats, wheat, and/or rice |
53.5 | ||||
| Wheat bran, mill feed, rice bran, and/or milling byproducts |
17 | ||||
| Soybean meal, peanut meal, cottonseed meal, safflower meal, and/or sesame meal |
15 | ||||
| Yeast and/or milk powder (for vitamins) |
2 | 3 | 2.5 | ||
| Salt with trace minerals (trace mineral salt or iodized salt supplemented with 1/2 oz. of managanese sulfate and 1/2 oz. of zinc oxide.) |
0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | ||
| Bone meal and/or deflourinated dicalcium phosphate |
2 | ||||
| Wheat middlings |
15 | ||||
| Wheat | 30 | ||||
| Cod liver oil |
1 | ||||
| Maine herring meal (65% protein) |
3.75 | ||||
| Meat and bone meal (47% protein) |
1 | ||||
| Kelp meal |
0.6 |
Stay tuned for the next
post about protein content — this is the one that will really help
you make up your own feed.
| This post is part of our Homemade Chicken Feed series. Read all of the entries:
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