A Starter Feed Is A Protein-Dense Variety Of Chicken Feed Designed For Baby Chicks

 

Starter Feed

A vital component of a chicken's diet is grit. Although they lack teeth, chickens have an exceptional digestive system compared to most other animals. Instead, to aid in the breakdown of their food into a form that can be digested, hens must ingest tiny stones, pieces of gravel, or other foreign objects that end up in their gizzard. Without some sort of Starter Feed in their gizzard, food may not break down effectively, which may cause intestinal obstructions, inadequate nutrition, discomfort, or, in the worst case, death.

It is not strictly necessary if your chickens just consume commercial layer pellets or crumble, as those feeds are made to decompose more quickly. However, if they have access to any other forms of food, such as scraps, grains, grass, weeds, etc., they will need the grit to assist their body properly digest it by breaking it down. Starter Feed is worth putting out just in case your hens need it because it is also cheap and lasts for a very long time.

Produced in the form of a fine crumble to reduce feed waste, enhance digestibility, and prevent separation of the feed, guaranteeing a constant intake of nutrients. A high-protein, high-energy diet to help meat chickens grow quickly. In order to balance the protein level, lysine and methionine are supplied. Vitamins and minerals are present, which are vital components for growth. Stringent quality control criteria were followed during production for both the finished product and the entering raw materials. Created using a variety of high-quality raw materials and formulated in accordance with the most recent findings in poultry nutrition.

Wheat, maize, sorghum, bran, pollard, a blend of protein meals (cottonseed, soybean, canola, sunflower, blood, and animal meal), vegetable oil, limestone, a mould inhibitor, sodium bicarbonate, salt, choline chloride, amino acids, and a vitamin and mineral premix.

Base raw resources could gradually alter with the seasons. Weight gains between days 7 and 28 were comparable for turkey poults Starter Feed diets (days 1-28) including hulless oats (with or without -glucanase) at 100, 200, or 300 g/kg, with the exception of the 300 g/kg hulless oat diet. Feed conversions were lower with the hulless oat diets, regardless of treatment with -glucanase. The addition of -glucanase enhanced feed conversion, with the exception of the 200 g/kg hulless oat diet, however the impact was minimal.