Broilers - growing at home, feeding from chicken to slaughter

When broilers appear on the farm , growing at home, feeding and antibiotic bottling become the main issues. The diet and amount of food for all breeds are approximately the same, but you will have to select the composition and introduce vitamin supplements by trial and error.

Feeding broilers at home

Breeds intended for short-term cultivation are meat and need high-quality and abundant food for the first weeks of life. Only two months are needed to feed the meat broiler at home, so the balance and the complex here are in the first place. In the question, what to feed the broilers, the variant with mixed fodder is considered obvious and justified. However, some risks will have to be taken into account here.

1. Unfair producers often sin by replacing natural amino acids and proteins with synthetic ones. The problem is that this synthetics mixes poorly with the rest of the composition and after the feeder has been emptied the white powder remains on the bottom.
2. If you select food among the products of proven manufacturers, it will cost a pretty penny.

How to feed broilers at home?

The growth rate of the chicken broiler depends on the daily volume of the portion. To feed from the first days it is necessary up to eight times a day, a week later five times more portions. There are two systems for fattening chicks.

1. The cycle from the purchased chicken to the finished broiler is divided into two phases: the first part of life uses the so-called starter feed, then the bird is transferred to the finish line.
2. For a large farm, a variant with three fattening phases is suitable: the first three weeks are used prelaunch feed, which allows to significantly strengthen the immune system of the bird. After that, the feeding takes place according to the scheme above. Depending on the age of the bird, the feed consumption for broilers is calculated, there is a table with the ratio of age and size of portions.

Approximate rates of dry fodder consumption by broilers at different age periods

age of broilers, days	amount of feed per day, g
1-5	15
6-10	20
11-20	45
21-30	65
31-40	85
41-50	100
51-60	115

Diet of broilers

Whichever feeding option is chosen, ready-made or cooked, the birds will have approximately the same ingredients in the ration. Each of them contributes to the harmonious development of the body of the bird.

1. The most part is corn. It gives a quick set of weights, microelements make the body stronger and more resistant to diseases.
2. Sprouting the vitamin component helps the germinated barley. This additive is responsible for the balance of the elements, enough for a fifth of the total weight of the poultry feed.
3. A good increase in the weight of the body of the hens is given by the introduction of yeast.
4. Improving the health of poultry and the quality of meat can be achieved by introducing a mixture of minerals into the broiler feed. It's about salt, chalk, and other additives.

Fodder for broilers with own hands - recipe

If the decision is made to prepare food for broilers by oneself, the composition must necessarily be supplemented with protein. It is introduced by the addition of bone or fish meal, the protein will provide alfalfa or herbal flour.

1. The three main questions when buying broilers: growing at home, feeding, the right diet. In the starting period of feeding about half of the diet consists of corn and its flour. Another third falls on wheat and sunflower cake. The rest is divided into three: bone meal, pressed yeast and grass meal with fodder fats.
2. The composition of the final feed for growing at home is somewhat different. Here, corn is only 40-45%, another 30% is equally divided into sunflower meal with bone meal. The amount of grass is reduced by a third, instead of it, the percentage of yeast and fats is increased to 3%, the remaining consists of crushed wheat.

Feeding broiler chickens at home

We must not forget about the first and the main rule of growing broilers: they should have a lot of water and feed and freely available. Feeding of broiler chickens depends on the growth of weight and age of the bird: if initially on one chicken had 5 g of grass and its weight increased tenfold, then the portion should grow to 50 g.

1. In the first five days on average, all broiler breeds need 15 grams of feed. One chicken is about 65 g for the entire period.
2. Further up to 20 days the norm grows to 35 g per day. Cultivation continues with the starting composition, one chicken will need half a kilogram of feed.
3. From this moment and the entire first month of life a bird a day relies 65 g of the mixture. On the eightieth day, the portion is increased to 100 g.

What to feed broilers in the first days of life?

The answer to the question, what to feed the broilers the first day, consists of two parts: it is important not only to provide food in free access, but also to drink the bird with special preparations. In the first days of life, there is a chance of losing a bird due to infectious diseases. Preparations "Enroflon", "Farmazin" or "Vetom" give up to five days and thereby solve this problem.

1. The first four weeks of growing access to food should be permanent. Optimal is the mixed feed "PK-2". For a day there will be about seven meals.
2. From the third day of life, you can add green complementary foods, and from the week of age offer chicks to twisted carrots. Separate into the feeding troughs pour shredded shells and chalk.
3. An excellent addition to the basic diet at home is a mash. It consists of crushed wheat, finely sliced ​​grass and fish oil and chalk additives. The bird is given a mash before the main feeding and is cooked just before serving.
4. To get large chickens, you can add to the diet of cottage cheese. More affordable option - to prepare a mash on sour milk.

What vitamins to give broilers?

We should not forget about the feeding that broilers need: growing at home involves feeding with nutritional supplements in the form of natural and pharmacy vitamin cocktails. On the fifth day of life a green onion pen can be introduced into the bird's diet. Approximately one gram, then increase the dose to six. Onion destroys intestinal parasites and replenishes the body's need for sulfur.

Later on the beds will appear sorrel, cabbage, which are mixed with grain. There they send nettle, dandelion. Pharmaceutical vitamins for broilers "Aminovital" are added to the water of the bird. In the composition of amino acids, and all the necessary trace elements. In the preparation "Chiktonik" a complex of probiotics, it is suitable for chicks and adult individuals.

How to feed broilers for rapid growth?

To rebuke the growth of the bird and provide healthy tasty meat help vitamin supplements, mixed with stimulants. The growth stimulator for broilers "Microstymulin" enhances the immunity of the bird, acts as a preventive drug against infections of all origins. "Avesstim" spray, and thus prevent more and airborne diseases.