Recipes for homemade layer chicken feeds

Once your chicks grow up
and start to lay, you want to change them off the
homemade
starter/grower feeds

and onto laying feeds with 16 or 17% protein.  Once again, I’m
listing several choices so that you get an idea of how to put together
your own feed recipe.  The numbers in the chart indicate a percent
of the recipe by weight —
to make a hundred pounds of feed, just pretend those numbers are in
pounds.


Generic
– 15-18% protein
Modern – 17%
protein
Modern (no
alfalfa) – 17% protein
High corn –
15% protein
No soybeans –
13% protein
Corn (shelled
or meal)
48.25 48.25 60 53.5
Soybeans
(roasted or meal)
30 30 8
Oats 5 10
Alfalfa meal
(can be eliminated in on fresh pasture.)
4 5 2.5 5
Fish meal
and/or meat meal
3 7.5
Aragonite,
ground limestone, marble, or oyster shells  (for calcium)
3 8.75 8.75 6.35 3
Poultry
nutri-balancer
3 3
Combination
of corn, milo, barley, oats, wheat, and/or rice
53.5
Wheat bran,
mill feed, rice bran, and/or milling byproducts
17
Soybean meal,
peanut meal, cottonseed meal, safflower meal, and/or sesame meal
15
Yeast and/or
milk powder (for vitamins)
2 3 2.5
Salt
with trace minerals (trace mineral salt or iodized salt supplemented
with 1/2 oz. of managanese sulfate and 1/2 oz. of zinc oxide.)
0.5 0.4 0.5
Bone meal
and/or deflourinated dicalcium phosphate
2
Wheat
middlings
15
Wheat 30
Cod
liver oil
1
Maine
herring meal (65% protein)
3.75
Meat
and bone meal (47% protein)
1
Kelp
meal
0.6


Stay tuned for the next
post about protein content — this is the one that will really help
you make up your own feed. 

This post is part of our Homemade Chicken Feed series.
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