Learn How To Raise Your Own Chickens
Choose the right Chicken Feed for your chicken
Keeping pets is extremely popular amongst us Brits, with over 30 million of us owning a pet. Making sure our cherished pets get the right food is so important for their health and wellbeing.
If your pet of choice is chickens, you’ll need to make sure you get the right chicken feed for them. There’s a variety of chicken feed to choose from so you can find the one your pet loves the best. You may opt for pellets, grit, crumb, maize or corn. The type of chicken feed you provide your chicken with will depend… Continue reading
Poultry and Corn Price Hikes Showcase the Need for Affordable Animal Feed
The month of May has proved trying for large chicken producers as several major companies have encountered significant losses due to an influx in the cost of corn.
According to the Wall Street Journal on May 9th, 2011, the price of chicken feed has surged while the price of chicken has stayed fairly steady; therefore instilling a gap between the cost of feeding chickens and the price paid for the chickens when they are sold to factories. The cost of chicken has risen a mere 3.7% compared to the cost of beef which has risen nearly 20% since last… Continue reading
DDGS Tests to Ensure Quality Feed For Livestock and Poultry : poultry house
With the price of corn steadily rising, other means in which to feed the nations’ two and four legged food sources are being pursued. Corn, once considered the unquestioned king of all eatable crops, has grown unpopular over the years as a human food product as both unnecessary and expensive to produce.
These days, it costs more to produce and refine corn than it can even sell for as food in the first place. Switching to producing ethanol based products is seen as both more cost effective and environmentally friendly.
DDGS stands for Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles. It’s a… Continue reading