Help With Broiler Food?

[U_Stormcrow]

Thank you @aart @Ridgerunner @Torinik - as long as someone derived some value of it, I'll call it time well spent. Very best to each of you.

 

[allenw]

Dicalcium phosphate is a common feed ingredient in the US and there are six types of wheat all with different uses and characteristics.

I've mixed a few batches of hog feed, real close to chicken feed when you compare requirements, as well as bought feed, even sold some for awhile. I raise wheat also.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Dicalcium phosphate is a common feed ingredient in the US and there are six types of wheat all with different uses and characteristics.

I've mixed a few batches of hog feed, real close to chicken feed when you compare requirements, as well as bought feed, even sold some for awhile. I raise wheat also.

I know dicalcium phosphate is common in hog, cattle, dog, and sometimes cat food in the US - but some of the biggest feed producers (i.e. Purina) here in the US don't use it in their chicken feed, even though its used in most of their other product lines. Would you happen to know any major US brands that ARE using it in their chicken feed? I'm curious if its use might be regional here - perhaps more common in the central or midwest?

OTOH, its much more common than oyster shell around the Mediterranean, the EU generally, India and Pakistan, from what I've seen.

 

[allenw]

Purina is the only company I have seen advertising oyster shell in their layer feed.