A poultry feed supplier provides food for domestic chickens, ducks, and Fish. Modern poultry feed consists of a mix of grains, protein supplements, mineral supplements, and vitamin supplements, tailored to the specific needs of the birds based on factors like age, weight, and production goals. These suppliers play a crucial role in the poultry industry by ensuring chickens, ducks, and Fish receive the necessary nutrition for growth, egg production, and overall health.
- Poultry feed is used by farmers as the main source of nutrition for poultry birds, including broilers, layers and day-old chicks (DOCs).
- Modern poultry feed is developed by specifically choosing and combining ingredients to provide a high quality diet that preserves both the health of poultry birds and increases the production of end products such as eggs and meat.
- The basic nutrients needed by poultry birds for development, reproduction, maintenance and health includes minerals, vitamin, carbohydrates, proteins and water.
- Poultry feed is made with a combination of various inputs such as soybean seeds, soybean meal, maize, fish meal, sunflower meal and rice polish.
- There are primarily four distinct types of poultry feed provided to chicken at various life stages and in three distinct forms. These are starter, grower, layer and broiler poultry feed.
- The poultry feed conversion rate is recorded around ~1.5x in Pakistan – the lower the rate, the better it is.
Pattern as per Poultry Bird's Age