Basic information
Chicken feed is formulated to provide balanced nutrition based on the bird’s purpose. While each brand is nutritionally similar, each company produces its own proprietary blend, so each will use different ratios of similar ingredients to meet general nutrition guidelines over many years now the poultry feed industry has researched and refined the essential nutritional requirements of poultry, from chicks to adult, from chickens to quail, turkey and others. The feed that they produce is formulated to maximize the growth and egg laying potential of each bird
Needless to say this is a huge improvement over the primitive ways birds are being fed in the olden days and the major reason was the way they were being reared then. Back in the ‘old days’ chickens would have to survive on what they found in the barnyard and any offerings from the farmers’ wife
Processes
Poultry diets are composed primarily of a mixture of several feedstuffs such as cereal grains, soybean meal, animal by-product meals, fats, and vitamin and mineral premixes. These feedstuffs, together with water, provide the energy and nutrients that are essential for the bird's growth, reproduction, and health, namely proteins and amino acids, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins. The energy necessary for maintaining the bird's general metabolism and for producing meat and eggs is provided by the energy-yielding dietary components, primarily carbohydrates and fats
Feed ingredients for poultry diets are selected for the nutrients they can provide, the absence of anti-nutritional or toxic factors, their palatability or effect on voluntary feed intake, and their cost. The key nutrients that need to be supplied by the dietary ingredients are amino acids contained in proteins, vitamins and minerals. All life functions also require energy, obtained from starches, lipids and proteins
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Classification
Feed ingredients are broadly classified into cereal grains, protein meals, fats and oils, minerals, feed additives, and miscellaneous raw materials, such as roots and tubers. These will be discussed in separate headings below. More information on measuring the nutrient composition of ingredients and the process of formulating poultry feeds is available in the section on feed formulation
Composition
1. Cereal grains
The quality of cereal grains will also depend on seasonal and storage conditions. Poor growing or storage conditions can lead to grains with a lower than expected energy content or contamination with mycotoxins or toxin-producing organisms such as fungi and ergots Genetic and environmental factors also affect not only the content of nutrients in grains but also the nutritive value, which takes into account the digestibility of nutrients contained in an ingredient in the target animal
2. Energy
Energy is not a nutrient but a property of energy-yielding nutrients when they are oxidized during metabolism. The energy value of a feed ingredient or of a diet can be expressed in several ways. Thus, a description is presented below of terminology associated with dietary energy values, including units of measure (digestible energy, metabolised energy, etc.), because metabolised energy values are most commonly used to define the dietary energy available to poultry, several procedures for determining metabolizable energy values, by using bioassays or estimates based on proximate analysis, are described. An example of the disposition of dietary energy ingested by a laying hen and some general considerations regarding setting dietary energy concentrations of diets follow
3. Protein meals
All feed contains protein. The amount of protein will vary based on the age of the bird or type of bird. Protein is provided from both vegetable and animal sources, such as oilseed meals, legumes and abattoir and fish processing by-products. Vegetable protein sources usually come as meal or cake, the by-product of oilseed crops. The main oilseed crops include soybean, rapeseed/canola, sunflower, palm kernel, copra, linseed peanut and sesame seed
After the oil is extracted, the remaining residue is used as feed ingredient. Oilseed meals make up 20-30% of a poultry diet. Inclusion levels do vary among formulations for different species and for the same species in different regions. The main vegetable protein sources used in Australian poultry diets are soybean and canola. Other sources like cottonseed, sunflower, peas and lupines may be included in poultry feed formulations if these are available at a reasonable price
Many oilseeds and legumes contain anti-nutritive factors. Some of these anti-nutritive factors can be destroyed by heat and are used in heat-treated meals. New cultivars of some oilseeds and legumes have been developed that are naturally low in anti-nutritive factors (ANF), permitting higher levels of the unprocessed grains to be included in poultry diets without ill-effect
4. Amino acids
There are usually some amino acids, lysine and methionine are the commonest
5. Vitamins
Most often A, E, D3 and B12 plus trace mineral elements such as phosphorus and copper sulphate
6. Enzymes
To help with digestion and of course fibre in the form of the grain in the product. Note!!! Some feeds may have other additives such as Omega 3, but this varies brand to brand. This added Omega 3 increases the egg’s Omega 3 count, making eggs healthier for people to eat
Our services
1. We educate our customers on how to give best diet to their layers
2. We deliver goods directly to customer’s location within 24hours
3We give accurate guide to poultry beginners
4. We enlighten our customers on how to maintain our products for long lasting use
5. Our company have installer team that install our cages and equipment
6. We have engineers that help our customers to build suitable poultry house
Frequently ask questions
Q: What is the effect of good feed on birds?
A: It aids chickens’ growth
Q: Which method of rearing layers is the best?
A: Without any doubt, battery cages remain the best method of rearing layer birds.
Q: Where can I get battery cages in Nigeria?
A: Vanke Machinery and Equipment is the number one supplier of battery cage in Nigeria and its environment
Q: What is the reason for raising layers on cage?
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