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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? 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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, 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 …
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.
Broiler chickens are a common breed of chicken that is raised in large-scale chicken farms and are typically slaughtered after 6 weeks. There are many reasons why broiler chickens do …