Better Farming Series 13 - Keeping Chickens (FAO - INADES, 1977, 48 p.): How poultry make use of food and water: Energy feeds

Better Farming Series 13 - Keeping Chickens (FAO - INADES, 1977, 48 p.)

How poultry make use of food and water

		(introduction...)
		Energy feeds
		Body- building feeds: proteins
		Mineral salts
		Vitamins
		Clean water
		Special needs of chicks, laying hens, and table poultry

Energy feeds

47. Poultry feed must contain above all energy feeds. Often the farmer can himself produce these feeds. The main energy feeds are:

· Maize, sorghum, millet, rice

You can give these in the form of grain or of meal. Poultry like maize; they can eat a lot of it without harm.

· Cassava

You can give it in the form of meal, or boiled. You must not give too much. In 10 kilogrammes of feed there should not be more than 2 kilogrammes of cassava.

· Rice bran

In 10 kilogrammes of feed, there should not be more than 1 kilogramme of rice bran.

· Palm- kemel oil cake

This is both an energy feed which can replace maize, and a body- building feed which can replace groundnut oil cake. In 10 kilogrammes of feed there should not be more than 1.5 kilogrammes of palm- kernel oil cake.