What Is Poultry Feed?
Poultry Feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds. Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm.
What Poultry Feed Contains?
Poultry feed is made with a combination of various inputs such as soybean seeds, soybean meal, maize, fish meal, sunflower meal and rice polish. There are primarily four distinct types of poultry feed provided to chicken at various life stages and in three distinct forms.
What Are The Types Of Feeds?
We can conveniently classify feeds into three main types: (1) roughages, (2) concentrates, and (3) mixed feeds. Roughages include pasture forages, hays, silages, and byproduct feeds that contain a high percentage of fiber.
What Nutrients Are Used In Feed?
Nutrients are elements in feed that are used by the animal for growth and production. Nutrients are normally divided into five categories: Water, protein, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins.
Why Is Feed Important?
Feeding has a direct impact on the growth rate, production capacity and health status of the animal. Feeding is key for a profitable and sustainable farming. The cost of feeding has long been recognised as the major cost and the largest cash expense in animal production.
Poultry Feed Prices In Ghana:
CHICK STARTER – GH¢116.00
GROWER MASH – GH¢107.00
LAYER MASH – GH¢116.00
BROILER STARTER – GH¢140.00
BROILER FINISHER – GH¢135.00
TURKEY STARTER – GH¢141.00