How much is chicken feed to get the optimum result?

Before deciding to keep chickens in your backyard, you might need to first calculate how much is chicken feed will cost you and thus you will get rough idea and prepare the budget to start your own chicken farming. I think for the most part, we don’t really have any clue on how much is chicken feed?


There are many elements involve here, few basic ideas are what type of chicken you are going to keep? Are you going to grow chicken? Or laying? If you are going to keep only a few of them you can start right away, and increase the number by the time you get used to it.

However if we talk about larger scale production whether if it is growing or laying, you might need to carefully calculate your budget, because you will spend most of your money on feeding, so you need to be well prepare.

Here is a basic idea on how much each chicken will feed week by week, however this number only shows us the basic estimation so you can make initial plan, because once you start on the much larger scale production, there will be more variables involve. Click on the table below for larger view.

Normally it will take about two pound of chicken feed to gain the weight of one pound. So roughly speaking it is 2 : 1 scale of feed vs weight respectively. This is an ideal estimation; however weather also must be taking into account. If it is cold weather chicken will eat more, on the other hand if it is hotter than they will simply drink more, as simple as that.

For broiler chicken in particular they will need to have food available anytime, and chicken will eat only if there is a light, so you do need light at night as well.

Broiler chicken feed : The right amount of balance for maximum growth

Broiler chicken need higher protein in their feed, so the first 4 weeks is the critical stage and protein content in the broiler chicken feed should be reaching at least around 20%. Please make sure to feed only broiler chicken feed for broiler chicken, if you use for instance feed for layers, it will not be suitable because of higher calcium content.

They key success factor in growing broiler chicken is that to provide with the right amount of nutrition since you have only limited amount of time to raise them correctly.

How to make chicken feed can we produce our own Homemade chicken feed?

Of course if you decide to make homemade chicken feed you first need to know common ingredients and basic principle on how to make chicken feed.

First you need cracked corn, ground roasted soybean, rolled oats, alfalfa meal, fish or bone meal, calcium powder, poultry nutria balancer. The composition will be as follow:

Cracked corn 50% of total weight of the mixture you are going to make, let say you are going to make 50 kg of homemade chicken feed, then you need 25 kg of cracked corn. For the rest will be 30% of ground roasted soya bean, 25% each for rolled oats, alfalfa meal, and fish or bone meal, 10% for calcium powder, and finally 15% for poultry nutria balancer.

Pour all ingredients into one larger container and mix them with a shovel until it evenly mix, and they are ready to be fed to your chicken. Sound like a lot of work doesn’t it? Anyway if you are trying to reduce your cost, this might be one way to do it.

Types of chicken feed 

There are different types of chicken feed available nowadays; however there are the most common ones that you still can use. The very basic chicken feed would be greens, which mean weed, lettuce, or vegetables in general, and your chicken will just eating them with no complain. Another thing you might want to try is soybean, best if you first boil and soak them first before feeding.

Of course the easiest way is to buy readily available commercial chicken feed in form of pellets which may contain rice bran, corn, soybean, and more, which are formed into pellets.

Whichever way you are going to grow your chicken, all I can say is happy farming, and enjoy.

Is goat milk dairy product? Does this question really matter?

Most popular milky question: Is Goat Milk Dairy Product?

 I also wondering and ask myself this same question, whether is goat milk dairy?

The answer for that of course is absolutely, 100% yes. You know why? Because every mammal, whether it is a cow, a goat, horse, camel, buffalo, and more, those which producing milk and its related product like yoghurt, cheese, kefir, sour cream will fall in the category of dairy.


One thing you might want to consider about is different mammal will produce different type of milk in term of its composition. So I would choose milk that is most suitable for me, I would probably choose different kind of milk for my son. Some people are allergic to one type of milk so they might need to change to another and see if it is working out for them. After all we all know how important milk is as one of the best nutrient source available, so we got to a find a way if one is not suitable for us.

So what are goat milk benefits, what is so good about it?

 As you already know, that human milk is the best milk out there, because it comes from our body and it has the lowest chance of getting allergic by drinking it.

But grown up would not drink other people milk.

Here comes the goat milk, it has one of the closest compositions to human milk comparing to other mammal’s milk, which is cow in particular.

Study has proved that goat milk is somehow easier to digest, and around twenty to forty percent of people who are allergic did not experience any negative effect to goat milk.

It also has slightly lower lactose level and for those of you who has lactose intolerant problem it may help because goat milk is easier to digest and will not stay for long in your stomach and get fermented.

Goat milk Vs Cow Milk : The Never Ending Comparison

Goat for sure will not be at least less to contain additives or hormones. As mentioned before, goat milk is relatively easy to digest, since it has similar protein structure to human milk. They also will not suppress our immune system. They also have good acid buffering ability in comparison to other types of milk, even plant based ones like soya milk.

So which one is better goat milk or cow milk? Goat milk also has the higher amino acid L glutamine which help enhancing PH level in your blood system. So, the answer will not be that simple, goat milk or cow milk? Because both have the same ability to provide nutrient when human milk no longer available to us. Nevertheless when it comes to allergic and digestive problem you might want to find alternatives and fresh goat milk might be the answer.

Fresh goat milk contain everything we can ever imagine, from vitamins, protein, minerals, fatty acids, enzymes that our body can absorb them really well. It has good amount of selenium that is beneficial for its antioxidant and immune properties.

Normally, you can digest goat milk in about 20 to 30 minutes at the most, while it takes about couple of hours for cow milk. Even in the olden days the milk were not pasteurized as it always be now, they are fermented which provide superior benefits to the people at that time. Why don’t you try goat milk yogurt to cure any digestive and allergic problem, it sure does works on me.


For those who have infant and accidentally have gastrointestinal problem, vomit, diarrhea, constipation even respiratory problem, yes you read it respiratory problem, try to feed them with goat milk and see how much the improvement it can make. Enjoy your goat milk and live healthier ever after!

Some Fun Facts About Corn and Its Benefits

As we all know corn is the most available plant that you can find almost everywhere throughout the world. You can use corn to feed animal or processing them into food, or perhaps turn them into another important ingredients like the fructose corn syrup.


A few Simple fun facts about corn:

Corn has already become one of the main food supplies over thousands of years ago. Native Americans have already cultivated corn and even its represent mythological tradition in the era of Maya, Aztec and Inca. When Christopher Columbus first arrived in America, he found corn plants grow almost in every part of the continent. Starting from Chile to Canada, then they brought it and introduced them to Europe and the rest of the world.

You can growing corn crops almost everywhere with different soil condition because it is relatively easy to plant. Because they well adapting with its surrounding environment. There are different varieties and it keep on multiplying thanks to today advance agriculture researches and biotechnology.

However the basic types are flint, dent, sweet corn, pop corn, floury, waxy, and more. Some old folks even said that you can throw corn kernels on a land and it will eventually grow by itself.

There are around eight hundred kernels within sixteen rows. In average one hundred bushel of corn will have about seven million of kernels.

In US and mostly with the rest of the world, unlike any other plants or crops, you can enjoy corn production or harvesting of at least twice a year or even more because most of the time they are ready in about 60 to 90 days after planting the seed.

The value of corn is one of the most higher among any other commodities and it is remain as a major ingredients for many food on your table even most of the time we are tend to ignore their strong existence. Let’s think about it starting from baking powder, caramel, malt syrup, fructose, cookies, beer, margarine, infant formula, corn flakes , corn flour tortillas, corn oil and a lot (I seriously mean) a lot more. Can you imagine live without the corn?

What are corn oil benefits?

The first benefit of using corn oil in the cooking process is because they have this high smoke point, which means you can use corn oil too cook at high temperature. Oil with low smoke point such as olive oil, at high heat it can breaking down and forming free radicals which will cause oxidative damage and eventually will responsible for cancer.

So please make sure use only high smoke point cooking oil like corn and canola when you are going to cook at high temperature.


The second Corn oil benefits is that because it has this high polyunsaturated fat which is plant based fat and way more healthier than animal fat in general. So in other words you can enjoy corn oil benefits because it will lower the risk of getting heart disease, also lowering the risk of type two diabetes, as well as minimizing the risk of coronary artery disorders and will helps lower blood pressure level.

Despite the fact is has high polyunsaturated fat, corn oil also this smaller amount of saturated fat which can generate high cholesterol.

Last but not least, many people prefer to use corn oil because of its price benefits. Corn oil is relatively cheap compare to for instance olive oil which will cost you four or five times the price. So you can use fresh new corn oil for each cooking without worrying too much about the price, after all reusing used cooking oil is not healthy since it will form the free radicals that can cause cancer.

Enjoy your corn meals!