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    Need help making homemade chicken feed - rye, oats, and barley

    @Folly's place Ah, you're right, that's a bit confusing! So, I have a set of nutritional requirements that should be met for either chicks, pullets, or layers. After calculating the amount of nutrients in a mix of ingredients, I compare the quantity of nutrients to that in the requirements...
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    Need help making homemade chicken feed - rye, oats, and barley

    Kind of late, but I thought I could be helpful on this topic. Using only these three ingredients, I've done some math and and figured out where the nutrients are particularly deficient. Barley is the best of these three grains in terms of ratios of protein and nutrient density. For a mix with...
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    How much fat is too much?

    That makes sense! I just found this article that indicated a diet with a maximum of 3.5% fat content should prevent occurrences of fatty liver syndrome. Thanks for the confirmation! :)
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    How much fat is too much?

    I want to formulate my own chicken feed. I've been looking into and reading about chicken nutrition, mainly the publication "Nutrient Requirements of Poultry: Ninth Revised Edition, 1994", chapter 2: Nutrient Requirements of Chickens. This seems to be the most easily available to the public...
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