TOPIC NO.

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LIVESTOCK/POULTRY
FEEDS AND FEEDING
 LIVESTOCK
feeds and feeding
 What is Livestock?

✢ refers to one or more domesticated animals

✢ Animal raised to produce commodities such food
✢ usually four legged animals.

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 What is feeds?

✢ also called animal feed

✢ Food developed for livestock and poultry

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 Types of feed

1. Starter Feed
✢ is given to 10 to 20 kgs.

2. Grower Feed
✢ given until the pigs reach a weight of 60 kgs.

3. Finisher Feed
✢ up to 80 to 90 kgs ready for the market

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 What can you feed to your pig?

✢ Commercially prepared swine rations from markets.

✢ Vegetable, fruit or bread scraps
✢ Restaurant leftovers
✢ Forest Products
✢ Alcohol distilling residues

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 What you shouldn’t feed to your pig?
✢ Any meat products
✢ Any carcass
✢ Any fish products and bones
✢ The excreta (droppings) of any mammal or bird
✢ Household, commercial or industrial waste

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 Formulation Feed
Creep Feed
✢ baby piglets’ first and most important dry food.

✢ contains 20% protein that is highly fortified with milk

Rice Bran Broken rice maize Soybeans

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 Formulation Feed
Wheat bran Ipil Root Crops Fruits

Vegetables Green Soya bean plant Cola-cassia/Pandalu

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 Formulation Feed
Chayote Banana Stem Pumpkin Bottle gourd

Winter melon Clover Alfalfa Berseem Mulberry

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 Traditional Feed Processing
2 Types of Traditional Processing:

1. Mixing all the different feeds together .

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 Traditional Feed Processing
2. Cooking the different raw materials together

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 Feeding Forest Products
Pig feed can also be prepared with forest products

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 Daily Feed Requirements

Dry/pregnant Sows and Gilts

✢ require 2.5kg a day of sow and weaner meal.

✢ Give an extra 1kg/day one week

✢ Give lactating sows 2.5 kg a day of sow and weaner meal

Boars
✢ Give boars 2.0 kg a day.

✢ regularly used increase this to 2.5 kg

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 Daily Feed Requirements

Piglets
✢ Give creep pellets 0.5 - 1.0 kg a day from day 7 up to

weaning time (21 days) per piglet.

Feeding of Growing and Finishing pigs
✢ Pigs weaned at 3 - 5 weeks of 11 - 13 kg body weight should

continue being fed on the starter diet until they reach 18 kg

live weight.
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Daily Feed Requirements

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Feeder Trough Size

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 Drinkers

All pigs need sufficient clean drinking water.

✢ A pregnant sow requires 10 - 12 litres of water per day.

✢ A lactating sow requires 20 – 30 litres of water per day.

✢ A growing pig requires 6 - 8 liters of water per day.

✢ A boar requires 12 - 15 liters of water per day.

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 POULTRY
feeds and feeding
 What is Poultry?

✢ are feathered animals such as chickens, ducks, geese, etc.

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 Chicken Feed Terminology

Pellets:
✢ Chicken feed is made into pelletized form for ease of use

and decreased waste.

Crumbles:
✢ Pellets that have been reduced to chick size pieces for ease of

eating.

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 Chicken Feed Terminology

Mash:
✢ is basically unprocessed feed

✢ used for chicks or adults and it can be fed dry or wet.

Fermented:
✢ been mixed with water and allowed to ferment naturally.

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 Chicken Feed Terminology

Medicated
✢ been treated with a coccidiostat to help chicks to overcome

any possible attack by coccidian protozoa.

Un-Medicated:
✢ Chick feed without a coccidiostat.

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 TYPES OF POULTRY FEED
1. Starting poultry feed:
✢ all mash ration to be fed to chicks up to the age of 8 weeks.

✢ you use from the point of hatching

✢ chicks will eat this from hatch until they are six weeks old

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 TYPES OF POULTRY FEED
2. Growing poultry feed:
✢ after 8 to 20 weeks or until laying commences.

✢ slightly less protein at around 18%

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 TYPES OF POULTRY FEED
3. Laying poultry feed
✢ after 20 weeks onwards or after laying commences.

✢ less protein (typically 16%)

✢ general does not contain as many vitamins.

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 Nutrients in your Feed
✢ All feed contains protein.
✢ There are usually some amino acids
✢ Vitamins
✢ Enzymes to help with digestion
✢ other additives

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What can you feed on your chicken?

✢ Complete feed for at least 90% of diet

✢ Limit to 10% of treats

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Treats that chicken love:

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Food Chicken Should Avoid

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 Thanks!
Any questions?

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References:
httphepigsite.com/articles/how-to-farm-pigs-feedings://t
https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/chicken-feed/
https://www.purinamills.com/chicken-
feed/education/detail/what-to-feed-chickens-chicken-treats-to-
feed-and-avoid

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Credits
Prepared by:
Basañez, Ara Maechill C.
Arriesgado, Diana Rose

II-G2 BTLED-H.E

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