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

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

53. You should mix vitamins in poultry feed if the birds are kept in a yard.

Otherwise the birds get vitamins by eating grass. Vitamins are given in very small quantities.

The farmer cannot produce them.
You have to buy them.

Vitamins can be bought in shops or from the animal husbandry centres.