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[casportpony]

Quote: X2!

-Kathy

 

[chickadoodles]

I have metal food grad barrels with locking lids that I put my chicken feed in because I don't have a door on my feed room yet.

 

[ozexpat]

Tell us more about your experience with Newcastle.
I'm guessing it's Exotic Newcastle. Do you know the strain? Beach's or Doyle's?
Does it seem like the native fowl are immune or resistant?
It seems like your property is loaded with it. It's my understanding that vaccinated birds are carriers so does that mean you'll have to vaccinate forever?

The diagnosis was differential, based on circumstantial evidence.

I routinely vaccinate for both types of Newcastle Disease and infectious bronchitis, Massachusetts Type and Connecticut Strain as well as La Sotta and N1 - rotating vaccines quarterly so they get both vaccines every six months. It comes in 1000 dose vials so I share it with my neighbors.

When we were thrown into turmoil when Bernie left and the birds missed a vaccination. The in a grow out pen were abAbout 8 weeks later we got hit.

We has 40+ birds from that pen die overnight with torticollis (twisted neck). We lost 8 more during the day and another 6 over 24 more hours. No other symptoms. 18 birds from 80 survived.

None of the vaccinated birds were effected and another grow out pen a distance away had no issues. A wild bird probably dropped in for some feed.

NCD is endemic in the Philippines but the use of vaccinations in the Philippines is pretty uncommon. Tthere is a cock fighting breeder about 1/2 a mile away. The locals will tell you that birds die after they vaccinate. I thought it was just a myth but I was proven wrong. Apparently he vaccinated 3 days before.

 

[Cynthia12]

I have metal food grad barrels with locking lids that I put my chicken feed in because I don't have a door on my feed room yet.

My feed and scratch are out in a shed..the door is always open, but, it wouldn't matter if it was closed, mice can and do get in. I also use the metal...garbage cans. The first one on the right is the one I keep the lay mash in..only 30 dollars for a 100 lbs of feed.





When those lids are on, no way mice can get in.

 

[Alaskan]

$30 for 100 pounds?

 

[ozexpat]

I purchase between 2-2.5 tons of feed per month

The distributor that sells to all the agrivet and feed stores in the smaller towns and villages sells to me at the same rate - about 10-15% below retail in the city and about 30% cheaper than if I was to buy locally

% Prot $ / 50lb
Rice Bran 12.6 $6.57
Corn Meal 9.6 $6.57
Soy Meal 48 $20.20
Fish Meal 70 $24.75
Copra Meal 22 $5.45
Vitamin & Elec 0 $50.51
Oyster Shell 0 $0.00

The best value in dollars per kilo protein is copra meal but its only really digestable by ruminants. Pigs can handle 20% inclusion but with chickens its less than 10%. Goats can handle 50%. It comes from the copra mill on the other side of the island whereas the rest get delivered by the distributor. I feed the goats Ipil Ipil branches and a mix of copra and rice bran as a supplement in the afternoons after they graze during the day.

I get best value by blending Rice Bran with Fish Meal. The vitamin premix is 1kg per ton or 1/2 a cup per mix using 2x50kg sacks base feed.

I have 100kg of base mixed with the high protein for pigs and chickens. The chicks get 20kg batches. My feed batches are designed to last less than a week. All sacks are dated on arrival and oldest used first. I have a feed batch log and feed receipt log so I can see where the use is so I can keep accounting accurate. I have 4 pig recipes anf 5 poultry recipes. The only feed I buy are early wean immume boosting mini pellets that i introduce to piglets on day five. By day 32 they are on farm mixed feed.

We get oyster shells by the sack for free from a restaurant. Bernie grinds them into powder to add to pig feed and chunks for chickens. The final concentration of calcium in the feed is 1.1% with additional free choice

Occasionally there is no rice bran so I change recipes and use corn. I have to double the fish meal to achieve the same protein levels.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: I like your set up

. My feed room is small I have two cans in mine.

 

[vehve]

Ikea sells smaller trash can-ish lidded cans made out of metal too. They're a nice size for us, and seem to keep the mice out, we only find droppings outside of them. In the picture they're on the left, on the second lowest shelf. I think they're about 25 liters or something, so about 6 gallons.

 

[perchie.girl]

I purchase between 2-2.5 tons of feed per month

The distributor that sells to all the agrivet and feed stores in the smaller towns and villages sells to me at the same rate - about 10-15% below retail in the city and about 30% cheaper than if I was to buy locally

% Prot $ / 50lb
Rice Bran 12.6 $6.57
Corn Meal 9.6 $6.57
Soy Meal 48 $20.20
Fish Meal 70 $24.75
Copra Meal 22 $5.45
Vitamin & Elec 0 $50.51
Oyster Shell 0 $0.00

The best value in dollars per kilo protein is copra meal but its only really digestable by ruminants. Pigs can handle 20% inclusion but with chickens its less than 10%. Goats can handle 50%. It comes from the copra mill on the other side of the island whereas the rest get delivered by the distributor. I feed the goats Ipil Ipil branches and a mix of copra and rice bran as a supplement in the afternoons after they graze during the day.

I get best value by blending Rice Bran with Fish Meal. The vitamin premix is 1kg per ton or 1/2 a cup per mix using 2x50kg sacks base feed.

I have 100kg of base mixed with the high protein for pigs and chickens. The chicks get 20kg batches. My feed batches are designed to last less than a week. All sacks are dated on arrival and oldest used first. I have a feed batch log and feed receipt log so I can see where the use is so I can keep accounting accurate. I have 4 pig recipes anf 5 poultry recipes. The only feed I buy are early wean immume boosting mini pellets that i introduce to piglets on day five. By day 32 they are on farm mixed feed.

We get oyster shells by the sack for free from a restaurant. Bernie grinds them into powder to add to pig feed and chunks for chickens. The final concentration of calcium in the feed is 1.1% with additional free choice

Occasionally there is no rice bran so I change recipes and use corn. I have to double the fish meal to achieve the same protein levels.

Hey Oz did you ever get your feed mixer built?

deb

 

[hennible]

I'm stuck on 100lbs for $30... Think I buy 50lbs for $20....