Nutritional Composition of Major Livestock Feed Ingredients
Do you want to formulate feed for your animals but don’t know the nutritional composition of some of the feed ingredients? Well, recently, I stumbled on a document that contains …
What is Concentrate Feed & How to Mix?
What is Concentrate Feed? According to the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO, 2000), Concentrate feed is the feed used with another to improve the nutritive balance of the …
Top 5 Reasons Why Inbreeding is Bad in Animal Production
Breeding is an important topic in livestock production and farming. Though some livestock farmers don’t value breeding, it remains the tool to improve the animals on your farm. Breeding is …
Livestock Farming – Definition, Benefits and Types
What is Livestock Farming? Livestock farming is simply the management and breeding of domestic, livestock or farm animals for the purpose of obtaining their meat and products (milk, eggs, leather, …
Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) in Livestock Farming
Feed Conversion Ratio is a topic of great importance in livestock farming, most especially commercial animal farms. Feed takes about 70 percent of the total cost of production in poultry …
Free Online Broiler Feed Calculator
A broiler feed calculator is a tool that is used to calculate the amount of feed that is required for a particular number of broilers. This information is important for …
Green Chicken Poop: Causes & Solutions
Most poultry farmers get worried on sighting green poop in the chicken pen or coop. Well, you shouldn’t get worried in some cases. Diarrhea in chickens and other poultry birds …
Day Old Chicks Price Today & Where to Buy
Day-old chicks, also known as DOCs, have become an increasingly demanded hatchery product by poultry farmers. The current price of day-old chicks is affected by some factors. These include the …
Beginner’s Guide to Raising Broilers from Start to Finish
Broiler chickens, also known as meat chickens, are a type of poultry that are raised for their meat. They are often reared commercially in large numbers.
Grower Feed Formula & Nutritional Composition
What is Grower Feed? Grower feed is the type of feed given to laying chickens from when they are 8 weeks old until they are ready to start producing and …