Broilers are one of the most popular home breeding birds. Their meat is a popular and most affordable product on the shelves of any supermarket. But every farmer or simple owner who wants to get a high-quality result when growing broilers sooner or later faces the problem of feeding them. The Internet space provides a lot of tips for raising small broiler chickens. Today we will talk about what is feeding broilers after 1 month at home.
Feeding broilers after a month
A little information
Proper care and the right approach to feeding young broilers is the main condition for their productivity. Popular wisdom says: "You are what you eat." This is true not only for humans, but also for poultry.
If a caring owner adheres to all the recommendations for raising livestock, then after long work he will receive a good return in the form of a large amount of light dietary meat. So, what are boilers fed at home?
General recommendations for the daily diet
In large poultry farms, professionals monitor the nutrition of this popular poultry. But this does not mean that in order to quickly feed large livestock, it is necessary to have a special education. At home, it is also quite easy to organize acceptable conditions for broilers.
For rapid growth and weight gain, chickens must be provided with food enriched with vitamins and essential minerals throughout their life. This is the guarantee of their health. The bulk of the necessary trace elements, which experienced owners advise to include in the broiler menu, are in the following list of products:
- vegetables and fruits;
- corn;
- waste food.
Farmers also recommend diversifying the diet of chickens with potatoes and all kinds of root crops. It is extremely easy to get them at home, while it will be possible to save on special feed. Both potatoes and homemade vegetables are rich in both minerals and vitamins that are so necessary for the growth of the chicken body. Sometimes it is advised to give potatoes and vegetables to broilers only after they have been boiled. The meat, which is the ultimate goal of broiler farming at home, is muscle. For a bird to gain muscle mass, it needs a diet rich in protein, which is found in foods such as:
- milk and its by-products (return and whey);
- a fish;
- various insects (May and Colorado beetles, for example)
Herbs and plant stems are a favorite treat for broilers. Feeding chickens with dandelions, nettles, peas, alfalfa and clover will not only benefit but also a lot of fun for the birds. And there is no better set of nutritious foods for chickens than fruits. This does not mean that the best fruit should be given to poultry. Usually broilers are picky representatives of the household, so slightly spoiled pears and apples that people will not eat will go for them. You should try to include them in the diet of birds every day of summer, so you get an excellent result in the form of a healthy bird.
Broiler feed varieties
At home, you can feed pets not only with the above products. If it is not possible to regularly provide the bird with fruits and vitamins, it is quite acceptable to buy a special feed mixture. It is also useful for fast growth and weight gain. Feeding the following types of mixtures will saturate the body of birds with all the necessary trace elements.
- Starter feed. It is advised to use it for feeding day old chickens. You can continue to use it until the young age of 1 month. This type of food is rich in proteins, which are "building blocks" for the still immature bodies of chicks.
- Feed for fattening. It contains all the elements important for growth and weight gain by chickens. It is advisable to feed already two-month-old individuals with such food. Experienced owners claim that the use of this type of mixture promotes rapid maturation and maturation of broilers. You can switch to it immediately after the chicks reach adolescence.
- Finishing feed. This type of feed was developed for adult broilers. It is mainly used in poultry farms, but if the farmer has the desire and opportunity, you can use it at home. It already contains much less protein than the starter feed. At the final stage, it is no longer so important for the bird, because the main period of growth and weight gain has passed, which means that this product is fed when the main goal of growing (muscle mass) has already been achieved. The finishing feed contains a large amount of vitamins in combination with minerals that nourish the body of chickens and help to maintain their health, which is of paramount importance for poultry in adulthood.
These 3 main types of feed mixtures are widely used by poultry farmers and are regularly used by them.
What is suitable for food
How to feed monthly broilers? We have already understood that a properly organized diet is important for each bird age. Of course, you can make feeding broiler chickens traditional, like feeding other chickens, but in this case, the main goal of gaining weight will remain unattainable. Novice farmers need to understand that every day of a bird's life should bring weight gain, and for this it is necessary to properly organize the feeding of the chicks. So what to feed broiler chicks in 1 month?
After reaching 30 days of age, broilers are no longer fed starter feed. Although some extend its use up to 2 months. Experts recommend transferring pets either to the second type of the aforementioned feeds, or to connect natural ingredients. This will only play into the hands of the owners and significantly improve the taste of poultry meat. The diet of a chick that has reached the age of 1 month must be enriched with crushed grains or a mixture thereof, which will include:
- oats;
- wheat;
- barley;
- corn;
- peas.
In order not to get confused in the allowable proportions, experienced poultry farmers combine equal parts of these ingredients, mixing with broth and adding fish oil, sometimes with cottage cheese.
If you cook yourself
Anyone who decides to cook their own feed for chicks according to all the rules will be helped by the following recipe: mix a quarter of wheat with a quarter of barley, add a tenth of peas, 20% corn, 20% soybeans and 5% sunflower meal. Add fishmeal to everything (it is very useful for birds), crushed chalk (as a source of calcium), vitamins, yeast and shell rock. As an additional treat, you can use grated zucchini, pumpkin, and food scraps (for example, potato peel).
Such a rich lunch is extremely healthy for the young, but it will not be enough. Greens are vital for broilers. At home, it is not at all difficult to get it. You need to give it to the chickens as much as you can collect. At this age, the leaves of beets and cabbage, radishes and lettuce will be useful, green onions are also especially rich in vitamins. This will help keep your pets immune and alert.
To make it easier to provide chickens with green shoots of herbs, they often equip their lives in special broiler cages that can be transferred from place to place. Their location is changed every day so that the pets always have access to fresh greens. There is a video on the Internet on how to build them correctly. At home, this is a very convenient thing and it will last for many years, during which it will be possible to grow more than one batch of broilers.
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Summarizing
At any age, meat is fed intensively. Feeders should always be full. In the chicken coop or fence in which the birds live, fresh water must be present every day to maintain a normal metabolism. In the life of birds, there should be free walking, during which they can search for useful worms and insects, choose the most delicious grass.
The process of feeding broilers that have reached one month of age has the main goal of gaining weight and strengthening the health of the bird. If you adhere to all the above recommendations on how to feed domestic broilers per month, everyone will be able to grow a large livestock, whose meat will have a rich taste and a set of nutrients.