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Manage Chicken Feeding Schedule

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Raising broiler birds..Tips and Tricks! food/water/health/safety

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The presenter explains the feeding regimen for the broiler chickens. They are fed for 12 hours during daylight and then have 12 hours off, which helps manage their rapid growth. He estimates the daily food consumption for a group of 50 birds to be around 5 pounds of feed, and proportionally less for fewer birds (e.g., 2.5 pounds for 25 birds). The significant amount of manure produced (at least 4 pounds per day for 50 birds) is highlighted as a key benefit for soil enrichment.

Goal: Learn about the broiler chickens' feeding schedule and food consumption rates, which are crucial for their growth and their role in soil fertilization.

Tools and materials

  • Feeder
  • Chicken Feed Meyer Hatchery (implied)

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so this morning I wanted to speak to you a little bit about feeding and the appetites of these birds and how much food you can expect to feed these birds per day we're at a point now where we're not feeding them constantly okay so we're feeding them 12 hours on and 12 hours off it just so happens that we start feeding them in the morning the Sun Goes Down we don't feed them all night long so what we do with these birds is we're gonna move them today and our little mobile coop and I'll show you how we move them food consumption wise they're probably consuming somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 pounds of food per day at this point now 50 Birds 5 pounds of food if you had 25 Birds probably two and a half pounds of food per day they're producing at least four pounds of manure on the yard here and I have them right here in front of my house just to show you that if you do this right you're not gonna have smells you're not gonna have a bunch of flies you don't see flies buzzing around my

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