What to feed chickens and ducks
In winter, when you can not let go of poultry to walk, to nibble the grass and hunt for worms, there is a question of a balanced, low-cost feed. How to build a bird's diet so that he was varied to contain all the nutrients and ravaged poultry farmer? Referring to the experience of FORUMHOUSE users.
chickens
In our member portal Pletnev 338 laying hens and 17 roosters. In these volumes is important to feed costs commensurate with the number of eggs laid by a hen. Pletnev has estimated that the cost to feed a hen should be 23-26 rubles per month (in 2011 prices - approx. ed), despite the fact that it carries 18-24 eggs per month.
Pletnev (Member FORUMHOUSE):
Here in the forum, some poultry farmers write - laying hens must be fed fish, meat, cod-liver oil. Your egg will cost a minimum of 55-60 p / dozen.
In the winter diet of the economy, which has developed Pletnev for their chickens, enters the cheapest fish or fish oil, animal feed and meat waste. Total per night per kurogolovu accounts:
- Fodder - 45 grams.
- Boiled potatoes - 65 grams.
- Hay / straw - 12 grams.
- Chalk, coal, gravel - 5 grams.
- Fish or meat waste - 3 grams per day.
Mash of these ingredients chickens receive thrice a day. Grain chickens Pletnev gives once a week: laying hens should not fattening.
Velem (User FORUMHOUSE):
All are corn and wheat in the cold is better to completely give... Chickens on fat.
At -3-5 degrees (in a henhouse 5 - 7 +) chickens daily rushSupplying 20-24 eggs each month. The only thing: the light in the house is lit from 7 am to 12 am. It turns out that the cost of a dozen eggs - 10.5 rubles, in the summer, at the expense of free greens, even cheaper.
Is this a good diet? Does it contain the right ratio for all layers nutrients? Textbooks on poultry breeding say that the winter diet should be high-grade and the most nutritious.
According to rough estimates, it should be so (per bird per day):
- Grain - 50 grams.
- Wet mash: crushed wheat, oats or barley - 50 grams.
- Sunflower or flax seed cake - 7 grams.
- Hay flour - 10 grams.
- Ground chalk - 3 grams.
- Bone meal - 2 grams.
- Buttermilk or whey - 100 grams.
- Sol - 0.5 grams.
Half bird mash give in the morning, half day, at night - the grain. leftovers from your table as in poultry diets in winter welcome. So, cracked wheat bread can be easily replaced.
Believe me, all the chickens love it.
Seljanka (User FORUMHOUSE):
Chickens like anything, it is important not to overfeed them only.
Many poultry farmers were surprised to see on this list salt - become commonplace to assume that salt bird is strictly forbidden. However, it is not.
Aplicator (User FORUMHOUSE):
Salt - an example of a die-hard, that "I'm doing the right thing, the rest - no." The salt can be a bird! Just the amount of salt in the bird's diet is less.
We can clearly see that the composition of any good fodder: there is salt, although, of course, the percentage of it is less than in the compound feed for pigs or cattle. The complete absence of salt are not welcome.
With potatoes, which in the majority of poultry farmers for free, from your garden, it's not so simple. Of course, a great temptation to feed the birds in winter mostly these universally respected root crop with the addition of some flake.
kolega12 (FORUMHOUSE User):
Fed every day boiled potatoes mixed with forage - is this normal? Or is it not worth it? If no potatoes, winter golden eggs will become.
Many poultry farmers produce chickens in the winter potatoes, but boiled. Raw potatoes and chicken - a direct path to the worms. But, of course, a large part of potato in the diet of chicken is not welcome, especially chicken-laying hens. The more potatoes, the more fat is gaining chicken (which is fat, not meat), and the worse it is carried. Because of obesity, reproductive system of the chicken is faltering.
Another point: instead of water often produce chickens poultry winter snow, it's wrong. In winter as in summer, hens must have continuous access to water.
Sometimes in the winter chickens Forward Country Jordania, they eat everything in its path, including "a quarter basin of sand." Unprepared poultry farmers may even become scared.
Variunia (User FORUMHOUSE):
I have five birds per week ate a whole huge bunker feeder - a mix amp with a variety of grains, gnawed broom nettle and a broom tree, upside litter of 23 cm to the bottom floor, apparently in search of food residues, and was gone a quarter basin sand. They have a party must have been.
As it turned out, "hanging ice dams Week" explained chickens lyutymi frosts. The following week, it was warm, and the hens ate only the fifth part of the diet. In this case, the dose was impossible to control: the feeder is designed so that the chickens eat, as they want, and the woman lives in the city and come to their chickens every day. But this experience confirms that in the cold chicken breast needs to be strengthened, especially in the grain.
ducks
It's believed that duck - one of the most profitable types of poultry. They quickly reach the desired weight, moreover, is often "graze" in the water, thereby reducing the cost of their feeding by 40%. But in the winter, in the absence of the reservoir, the situation is changing.
While the ducks begin to lay eggs, they are fed three times a day, as soon as the start, they were transferred to four meals. Here is a rough winter, the daily ration for one duck:
- Bran - 25 grams.
- Boiled potatoes - 100 grams.
- Beets, carrots, pumpkin - 50 grams.
- Vitamin flour - 50 grams.
The sad and, unfortunately, often the story: thoroughbred ducks are fed a good forage (6-ka for broilers), boiled potatoes, and they sometimes eggs, bring fishing with minnows and perch, and in general - in the house continuous buffet and ducks do not grow and do not gain the winter and 2.5 kilograms. What's wrong with a diet?
Likely to all diets soThe problem with ducks, it is necessary to replace them with more productive.
Aplicator:
You feed the ducks so not cheap feed, and you have this result??? Yes, it is the horror! That would be me so fed musk, probably by a month the boy would be at 5.5-6 kg, without irony, I say! With this feeding pekinka to 60 days gaining almost 4 kg!
Here is how he feeds his ducks Aplicator:
- Up to a month - SC5.
- After a month - PC1, 50% mixed "with anything", e.g., swine forage; mixed or crushed wheat + + corn and barley.
Aplicator:
Add corn to the mixed fodder senseless slaughter before the first period.
In addition, corn - quite expensive food, more rational will buy feed-yedinichku, which is already included.
Whole, whole grain ducks better not to give - or crush, for a day or soaked in cold water.
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