Poultry Feeds For Layers Birds From Day Old (Day 10) to Their 70week

Good day guys, I have often been asked to give an estimate of the feed layer will feed on during their 70 weeks they will be staying in your farm.  That’s what I want to talk about today, we charge for information like this but I am giving for free on Greenhealthyfarm.com today. You can just appreciate me by commenting on my blog.

Assumptions:

The following assumptions will be taken into consideration

• We will be making the estimation for 100 layers
• The birds will be healthy all through their life time to consume on the standard daily quantity needed for growth and reproduction
• Each bag of commercial feed is 25 KG
• At 70 weeks, they will be sent to the market as ‘old layers’

THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE QUANTITY 100 BIRDS WILL CONSUME FOR DAY 1 TO DAY 140(20 WEEKS)

Age of birds End of week	Feed Consumption Kg/bird	Quantity / 100 birds Kg     /  25kg bags
2 weeks(starter mash)	0.20	20	4/5 bag
4 weeks(starter mash)	0.40	40	1  3/5
6 weeks(starter mash)	0.65	65	2  3/5
8 weeks(starter mash)	0.85	85	3  2/5
Total 8 weeks(starter mash)	2.10	210	8  2/5*1
10 weeks(grower mash)	0.90	90	3  3/5
12 weeks(grower mash)	1.00	100	4
14 weeks(grower mash)	1.10	110	4  2/5
16 weeks(grower mash)	1.15	115	4  3/5
18 weeks(grower mash)	1.15	115	4  3/5
20 weeks(grower mash)	1.30	130	5  1/5
Total 9-20 weeks(grower mash)	6.60	660	26  2/5
Total 1-20 weeks(starter & grower)	8.70	870	34  4/5*2

• From the table, 100 pullets will consume 210 KG of Starter mash which will be 210kg/25kg = 82/5 bags of chick mash.
• 100 pullets will also 660 kg of grower mash between 9 -20 week which is about 262/5 bags of grower mash
• After 20 weeks when the bird would have started laying above 5% of the total no of bird (i.e. 5 eggs daily) it is standard practice that 200 layers will consume 25 kg of feed daily, that means ,100 layers will consume ½ a bag (12.5 kg )daily.

Based on the following analysis, below is a summary of the total number of feed 100 birds will consume in 70 weeks

Type of feed	Age range	Analysis	Total in bags
Chick mash	Day 1- 8 weeks	See *1 in the table	8 2/5  bags of chick mash
Grower mash	9 weeks – 20 weeks	See *2 in the table	34 4/5 bags of grower mash
Layers mash	21 weeks – 70 weeks	½ bag × 7 days × 50 weeks	175 bags of layers mash
TOTAL IN BAGS			2181/5 BAGS OF FEED

So guys, that’s it