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Fiber in layer’s feed

Fiber in layer’s feed – a practical approach based on raw materials’ varying patterns

Published: October 20, 2011
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Introduction This congress takes place in a typical corn-soya-region of the world, which means that corn and soya are the basic raw materials for all type of poultry feed. But in a lot of countries we see much more and different raw materials being used in poultry nutrition and especially in those diets for layer breeds in rearing and production. There is no doubt that especially layers perf...
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Robert Pottgueter
Lohmann Breeders
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Amritham Sreenivas
12 de enero de 2015

This is sreenivas from shreyas farm chennai regarding the fibre content it is usually 6-7% in the feed as per our calculation but do not know in actual we add sunflower cake,gaur meal,soya,dorb,gndoc. as it varies seasonally and also addition of cotton seed but in genral only soya sunfower dorb maize rice broken gives a constant production mail 

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Robert Pottgueter
Lohmann Breeders
21 de abril de 2020

The described problems with sunflower products are somehow old fashioned - and may be based on too high inclusion of sunflower-products into layer diets. With a real well balanced diet and not too high level of sunflower products a lot of benefits can be seen in practice; especially in non cage feeding of layers - and as a top of this in feeding hens with full beak.

Wishing you all the best!
Robert

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Mark jones
27 de enero de 2021
Good information
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