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rmanney
In the Brooder
Y’all are the best! And I have so much to learn.OK,
I'me going to have to make some assumptions here, since the mill hasn't provided the nutritional assays of the ingredients. I'm assuming they mean bicolor sorghum for "milo", its used sometimes for other things (some of the millets, which vary considerably in their nutritional profiles), I'm assuming a high protein soy meal (that may be wrong), I'm using the Feedipedia averages for corn (which according to actual experts, like @Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay , gives corn more credit than its due - and I'm inclined to agree), and I'm using whole oats. and I'm using "soft" wheat - its a bit cheaper, but much lower in overall protein.
Putting all those things into the calculator I made from Feedipedia data, and NOT compensating for water content ("as fed", which should reduce these figures around 10%- ish), here are my outputs:
Protein: 17.03, Fiber 4.19, Fat 3.07 (remember, these all get reduced about 10% to account for moisture in the grains). Your Methionine is low - you REALLY want a Nutribooster type addative here, such as Fertrell's product, your Lysine is good, Threonine is borderline, and Tryptophan is fine. FOR ADULT LAYERS Your Methionine is low. Yes, worthy of emphasis.
I would definitely not use that for feeding hatchlings/adolescents, and I would definitely provide a side dish of calcium - calcium diphoshate or dicalcium phosphate, not oyster shell, if you can get it. Or, like I said, the Fertrell Nutribooster.
Hard "Winter" Wheat would improve outputs, reducing corn and replacing with almost anything else is an improvement, soy or wheat the greatest improvements.
and if you are looking for an "all flock" type formulation, yes, in addition to fixing your amino acid profile to increase the Met relative to the others, the total protein should be at least 18% (preferably after accounting for moisture), meaning almost 20% on a dry matter basis.
Those are my thoughts, anyways, as someone who is NOT an expert. Just better read than many.
Since this is from a farmers co-op in Oklahoma, the ingredients are all things we grow around here. The milo is red milo grain, and the wheat is hard red wheat. Does that improve the feed’s nutritional value any?
I’ll see if I can find nutribooster. Should I mix it in to the feed or have it available separately? Will it fill in the gaps, or do I need to also add salt?
Thanks so much to you folks for being so helpful and sharing your knowledge!!