kind of OT-making chicken feed

Super Steve · Dec 3, 2013

When I was a kid we made our own chicken feed using corn, soybean meal, wheat,concentrate, and oyster shell but for the life of me I can't remember how much of each we put in. Does anyone know roughly how much of each I should use? Eithe how many "scoops" of each or pounds to make a 50 or 100 lb mix?

And to keep it tractor related, I used the tractor and hammermill to crack the corn and wheat

Thanx, Steve.

randallinMo · Dec 3, 2013

This would be a "ball park" 16% laying ration, using the ingredients you mentioned:

975 pounds corn
560 " wheat
440 " SBM
25 " oyster shell

Total 2000 pounds. You can figure the percentages from this. I"m thinking the percent protein would be just a little higher than 16%.

Super Steve · Dec 3, 2013

thanx that should work, the concentrate will help with the protein

WCS · Dec 3, 2013

what is "concentrate"? vitamins and minerals? the soybean meal is there for the protein so I don't think you need another source of protein.

notjustair · Dec 3, 2013

I just give mine the feed I grind for hogs. It is about 16% and includes the mineral concentrate. They lay lots stronger on that than commercial feed.

60 acre hillside · Dec 3, 2013

If I understand this sounds like a balanced ration and no additional ingredients need to be added/

JMS/.MN · Dec 4, 2013

"concentrate" is sometimes a regional definition. Growing up, concentrate was something we bought to mix in hog feed, mostly vitamins, minerals, bone meal, blood meal, protein, etc. Years later, when I met my wife"s family from northern MN, "concentrate" was the mixed (corn, oats, soybean meal, vit, min, etc.) feed that they bought cuz they just raised hay. In other words, all the grain mix that they fed. Grain was not raised in that area.

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