feeding broilers from start to finish?

[chooniecat]

I am having a hard time bringing up info on feeding broilers from day olds to 8 wks. old. I was once told start and end with 20percent. I currently use Dumors starter (20 percent) on my layers for a few weeks so basically same for meat bb's? these will be free range til the end.:/thanks

 

[digitS']

That's it:

Meat Production Broilers
0 to 4 weeks Starter 20% to 23%
4 to 8 weeks Grower 19% to 20%
> 8 weeks Finisher 15% to 18%

Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Many start and finish with the 20% Starter and don't keep the birds past 8 weeks.

Steve

edited to add: And, many cannot find Finisher locally, anyway.

 

[chooniecat]

thanks-saved the site suggested-although thats where I get in trouble cause its a lot of blah blah blah blah and from what I am grasping there are several ways of thinking on the feeding of meat bb's. I will see how this first bunch turns out(only 11) and live and learn.