The cost of raising chickens is too high, and the feed is always unsatisfactory. This article will guide you through making your broiler feed to help you reduce your costs and improve your profit.
Why chicken feed pellets are so important to broiler farming?
As we all know, the biggest expense in raising poultry is feed costs. If you choose good feed, the growth rate of animals will be accelerated, and feed with reasonable nutrition can reduce the probability of animals getting diseases.
There are many kinds of chicken feed on the market. How to choose the right one? How to feed chickens with different nutritional ingredients in each cycle? Below, we will analyze the main types of chicken feed on the market, analyze their advantages and disadvantages, and come up with the most suitable feed form for home use.
Comparison of three most popular chicken feeds
| Type of chicken feed | Compound feed | Powder feed | Pellet feed |
| Advantages | Convenient, can be used directly | Cheaper and customizable | Less waste, easier storage, better digestibility and uniform nutrition |
| Disadvantages | Expensive and often lacks transparency in ingredients | Dusty, easy to waste | Cannot be done manually without machines |
So maybe there are two way for us to get home made poultry feed: the powder feed and the pellet feed.
So, what are machines for you to grind it or make it into a pellet? If you have a disc mill at home, you can directly use it to make powder feed. And the problem is obviously that, when you feed chicken, their wings will blow the powder everywhere.
So I still advise you can try pellet feed, which has a tight structure, and can add a variety of ingredients. But you also need a machine. And the poultry feed pellet making machine is really a good choice.
The main ingredients for making chicken feed
What are food from broilers? Here is a broiler chicken fattening period pellet feed formula for you to know its necessary food needs.
| Ingredient | Percentage | Weight | Cost (USD) (Estimated) |
| Corn | 55% | 55kg | $17.05 |
| Soybean meal | 25% | 25kg | $13.75 |
| Wheat bran | 10% | 10kg | $2.00 |
| Fish meal | 5% | 5kg | $5.00 |
| Premix | 2% | 2kg | $2.50 |
| Oil | 1.5% | 1.5kg | $1.80 |
| Salt | 1.5% | 1.5kg | $0.30 |
It is clear that the compositions are simple, and the raw materials are also cheap. How much did you pay for broiler feed, and what problems did you encounter? The truth is that making your own poultry feed will help you save more money.
How to make your feed at a low cost but with high returns？
Let us check what you will save if you have a feed pellet machine:
- You can buy the raw materials by yourself or use crops from your farm.
- You can save on feed packaging and logistics costs when you buy feed from a feed factory.
- The larger your breeding scale, the lower the breeding cost, because the cost of feed pellets.
- When you are proficient in making your own broiler feed, you will know the nutritional needs of chickens in each growth cycle, and your breeding efficiency will be greatly improved.
So the conclusion is that a poultry feed machine can help you achieve the goal of having low-cost feed and have higher returns, because you reduce the extra cost and can change the nutrition according to the period needs of the chickens.
The steps of making homemade poultry feed
If you use this machine, you just need to do two steps:
- Turn on the feed pellet-making machine, and make sure it runs well.
- Mix your raw materials and throw them into the hopper. (Remember to control the humidity it)
Here is a complete working process of the poultry feed-making machine. If you want to control your cost of buying feed pellets, consult me to gain a price.