TYPES OF POULTRY DIETS
According to types of poultry and chicken, there are 5 types of poultry diets available in the world. the purposes of specific types of poultry diets or feed to achieve a target production and benefits. the five types of poultry diets are-
- Starter diets
- Turkey Growing and Finishing Diets
- Growing Diets and Developers for Leghorn-Type Chickens
- Laying Diets for Leghorn-Type Chickens
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1.STARTER DIETS
- Usually fed first 2 to 3 wk to chickens and 2 to 4 wk to turkeys.
- higher energy and nutrient contents vs. others, especially protein/amino acids, but Leghorn-type pullets are fed diets with lower protein until 6 wk or so.
- Include high doses of antibiotics to reduce mortality and initiate more rapid growth and also a suitable coccidiostat.
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2. BROILER DIETS
- Fed as a complete feed to meat-type birds – May be fed in crumbles or pelleted form.
- Higher vitamin supplementation to meet the added requirements for growth under the stressful conditions encountered in the average broiler operation.
- May contain 3 to 5% added fat to increase the energy content and the protein content is adjusted to maintain an optimum protein: calorie ratio.
- Fortified with antibiotics and should contain a coccidiostat
- Generally, two types: grower diets, fed from 3 wk to 6 wk of age, and finisher or withdrawal diets, fed from 6 wk to market age.
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3. Turkey Growing and Finishing Diets
- Similar to broiler diets and fed as a complete feed to meat-type birds.
- Generally, use diets with a different CP content for 4- 8, 8-12, 12-16, 16-20 wk, and over 20 wk of age.
Growing Diets and Developers for Leghorn-Type Chickens
- Designed to be fed to the replacement stock from 6 wk to sexual maturity.
- Two types: 1) Complete feed, mash, or pelleted – Generally lower in protein than starter diets, and 2) Mash concentrate – Fed with varying amounts of grain to meet the needs.
Laying Diets for Leghorn-Type Chickens
- Diets fed to mature hens during egg production
- Two ways/types: 1) complete feed – mash or pelleted, and 2) mash concentrate to be fed with a specified amount of grain or mixed with grain & soybean meal.
- The salt content may be decreased to reduce the incidence of wet droppings
- Cage fatigue? – Perhaps, the result of a Ca deficiency? If so, the Ca content should be
- increased, or provide a Ca source on a free-choice basis.
- Hens producing hatching eggs? – Should be fed a more highly fortified feed (especially, vitamins) than hens kept merely for commercial egg production.
- Increase protein and vitamins during the period of stress or slumps in egg production. Also, use a higher dose of an antibiotic or a combination of antibiotics?
What are the different types of poultry?
According to feed ingredients, there are 3 types of poultry are available in the market
- Pellet feed
- crumble feed
- Mash Feed
According to types of poultry, poultry feed are classified into 5 types
- Broiler starter
- 2. Turkey Growing and Finishing Diets
- 3. BROILER DIETS
- 4. Growing Diets and Developers for Leghorn-Type Chickens
- 5. Laying Diets for Leghorn-Type Chickens
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This is Ramzan Ali (DVM), founder of poultrymania.com which is an informational blog about poultry.I have been trying to provide the latest poultry update about the disease, nutrition, vaccines, medicines, and so on others since 2018.
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