Which is the amount in grams of daily food for laying hens?
Here is an answer from our Spanish community, by Giovanni Cabrera Ortega from Chile:
Hello,
It is advisable to provide between 110 and 120 grams of food for pondering chickens per day, but this has to be broken down as follows:
Base energy (wheat, corn, wheat middlings, corn middlings, soybean, oats, etc), between 68 to 82 percent.
Base protein (fish meal, middlings and other bone), between 12 to 19 percent.
Do not forget to place seashell (or crushed egg) to 1.5 or 2 percent salt by 1 percent.
It depends on what stage your chickens are, and the values I give you are for reference:
They may vary depending on the mix. Observe that this does not consider at all these famous concentrates, which are otherwise made of fish meal. I do not use them specifically because they change the taste of eggs (If you crush an egg, you will notice that it smells like fish), so I myself prefer to formulate rations. A very important advice: youll notice that I mentioned at the base oat protein. But beware: this should only be provided in a maximum 15 percent, over that 68 to 82 percent.
Giovanni Cabrera Ortega
hello,
Thank you to specify the age of Laying hens nutrition, strain, the region where farming and whether environmental factors are controlled atmosphere under control, once the required information I could answer more accurately.
Phoenix-Abdelfetah
Good I agree about Laying hens nutrition Mr. Oyedele comments but increase little bit that the breed of the birds (white leg horn/Brown),
productivity of the bird and egg outputs over egg mass etc.