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Growers Mash Feed Formula Complete Guide

Growers Mash Feeds are given to poultry birds or chickens as from 6-8 weeks and above when chicks can then be moved from chicks mash feed to growers mash feed.

Below is your growers mash feed formula along with the step by step comprehensive guide on how to formulate your growers mash feed for your poultry birds.

The truth about poultry farming business is that success in the poultry farming business mostly depends on feeding quality feed and feed formulation system. For proper growth, egg production and good health, poultry birds require energy.

In order to obtain the desired growth rate, you must have to purchase and provide highly nutritious poultry feed. Except for adequate and quality feeding, you can’t run your poultry farming business properly.

As a poultry farmer, you should always produce and sell fresh and healthy birds and quality eggs. For producing quality eggs and meat you have to feed your birds quality feed.

This will also help to get maximum returns from your poultry farming business.

If you are planning or you are already into poultry farming and you wish to hit it big, then your poultry birds feeding is something you should take very seriously.

Some farmers are now reducing feed rations served to their birds due to the high cost of feeds. Some of the feeds out there are adulterated.

As a result, many poultry farmers in different parts of the country want to know how they can make their own feeds in order to cut down costs of production.

Feeds account for more than 80% of production costs. A farmer who manages to bring down this cost to about 60 to 50% will make good returns in the poultry business.

As poultry feed or chicken feed often accounts for more than 80% of the cost of poultry production. Right now, the increasing cost of feeds is driving many poultry farmers out of business.

Therefore, making your own feeds would cut down costs while increasing the profit margin of your poultry farming.

Today, I’m going to show you how to make your own chicken feed.

Meanwhile, it is very important to also understand that whether you are formulating chicks mash, growers mash, broiler starter mash, broiler finisher mash or layers mash, you have to know and remember that feed formulas are usually given based on the needs of your birds so before a feed formula is recommended, it must meet the needs of your birds.

It is also very important that you consult an expert for proper guidance incase you get confuse with the process along the line.

Importance of Formulating your Own Poultry Feeds

Except a few feed manufacturers who keep to the standards in poultry feed formulations, many feed companies in the country make very poor quality feeds, a situation which has led to huge losses.

Poor quality feeds lead to a slow growth in chicken, low egg production, diseases or even death.

Making poultry feeds on the farm is one of the best ways to maintain quality and cut the cost of production.

The common ingredients are whole maize, maize germ, cotton seed cake, soya beans, sunflower or fish meal (silverfish).

In addition, farmers need to add several feed additives (micronutrients, minerals and vitamins) to make ensure their chicken have a balanced feed that meets their daily nutrient requirements.

Depending on the cost of raw material, farmers who make their own feeds at home save between 30 to 50 per cent for every 70-kilogrammes bag of chicken feed, depending on the source of their raw materials.

Read Also: Chicks Mash Feed Formula

Growers Mash Feed Formula

To formulate feeds, farmers have to use the Pearson Square method. In this method, the digestible crude protein (DCP) is the basic nutritional requirement for any feed preparation for all animals and birds.

The following are the DCP values for each of the common ingredients used in feed making:

Whole maize — 8.23 per cent
Soya — 45 per cent
Fishmeal (omena) — 55 per cent
Maize bran — 7 per cent
Sunflower — 35 per cent

Each category of chicken has its nutritional requirement.

Growers Mash Feed Formula

In case you need a feed formula sample to produce grower feed or grower mash for your grower cockerels or pullets, you can use the one below.

Here is a video of the audio tutorial version of how to formulate your own growers mash feed, kindly check it out:

An example of a Growers Mash feed formula is given below for a total of 1000kg (1ton) Growers Mash Feed Formulation:

Raw MaterialsQuantity Required
Maize400kg
Soya90kg
GNC80kg
Wheat Offals362kg
Bone Meal20kg
Oyster Shell40kg
Methionine1kg
Lysine1kg
Salt3kg
Vitamin3kg

N/B: Seasons can also affect/alter the formulation therefore always carry an expert along.

Read Also: Comprehensive Guide on How to start Cockerel Farming Business

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6 thoughts on “Growers Mash Feed Formula Complete Guide

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    • Agric4Profits

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  • Thank you. What is wheat offalls!

    Reply
  • Jedidiah Komagum Alony Grace

    Day 1-week 3
    Item Qty (kg)
    1 maize bran 30.0
    2 Broken maize 70.0
    3 fish meal 30.0
    4 cotton seed cake 30.0
    5 stocked feed lime 8.0
    6 premix G.P 0.2
    7 Methionine 0.2
    8 Di-calcium phospate 0.3
    9 salinomycin 12% 0.1
    10 salcurb 0.2
    11 enzymes 0.1
    12 toxin binder 0.2
    13 meat booster 0.2
    14 livestock salt 0.5

    Is the above the right formulation for starter feeds for broilers briler chicks?

    Reply
  • Mbaya pilasar sikumta

    I’m a small scale poultry farmer hoping to start formulating layers mash but limestone is not accessible in my location. Can you please help me know of a better substitute?

    Reply
    • Benadine Nonye

      Bone Meal or Oyster Shell can substitute Limestone for your poultry feed….
      Alternatively, you can ask other poultry farmers within your location the source of calcium they use for their poultry feed production as use that for yours as well.

      Reply

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