The exact, farm-tested feed formulas for layers, broilers and noilers — plus the simple math to build your own ration whenever prices or ingredients change. Ten years on a real Nigerian farm, distilled into one book.
You lose a batch of birds to disease and only later realise poor nutrition, not infection, opened the door — a thin, unbalanced ration that quietly weakened their immunity.
Your layers start dropping thin, cracked or soft-shelled eggs, and you can't tell if it's calcium, stress or disease — so you treat the wrong problem for weeks.
Your broilers are eating well but growing slowly — because the ration wasn't adjusted from starter to finisher on time, and you're paying premium protein prices for frame growth that already happened.
You copied a neighbour's formula because it "worked for him" — without knowing his birds, his age group, or his ingredients were entirely different from yours.
Every time soybean meal or fishmeal jumps in price, you're stuck — because you've never learned how to rebalance a ration, only how to follow one.
"How to Formulate Poultry Feed" is a nine-chapter, farm-tested manual written for Nigerian ingredients, Nigerian prices, and Nigerian conditions — by a farmer who has been mixing his own feed for over ten years, including the batch he lost before he learned this properly.
The five nutrient groups every ration must balance — energy, protein, calcium and phosphorus, vitamins and minerals, and amino acids — and why one formula never fits every bird or age.
A full reference table of crude protein and energy values for the ingredients you'll actually find at your feed store, with sourcing and storage warnings that protect your flock from aflatoxin and fake premix.
Exact starter and finisher rations per 100kg batch, the correct week to switch, and the two mistakes — late switching and heat stress — that quietly eat your feed conversion.
Grower and layer-mash rations built around calcium timing, so you stop seeing thin shells and start seeing consistent, sellable eggs.
A dual-purpose ration for the bird that sits between layer and broiler — including how to transition females onto a layer-type ration as they approach point of lay.
The weighted-average method for working out crude protein by hand, worked through with real numbers — so you're never stuck when an ingredient runs out or a price jumps.
Grams-per-bird-per-day tables by age for broilers, layers and noilers, plus the general feeding rules that catch problems before they look like disease.
The correct mixing order, why pre-mixing small-quantity items matters, and the five mistakes that cost farmers the most — most of them invisible until it's too late.
An honest, numbers-based breakdown of when mixing your own feed actually saves you money, and when buying commercial is the smarter call.
This is a fraction of the full ingredient reference inside — every value the author uses personally, on his own farm, with the notes that keep you from buying moldy maize or adulterated fishmeal.
| Ingredient | Crude protein | ME (kcal/kg) |
|---|---|---|
| Maize (corn) | ~8–9% | 3300–3400 |
| Soybean meal | 44–48% | 2230–2400 |
| Groundnut cake | 40–45% | 2400–2500 |
| Fishmeal | 60–72% | 2800–3000 |
| + 7 more, with sourcing notes | — | — |
Recipes go stale the moment ingredient prices move. That's why Chapter 6 teaches you the actual method — the same one the author uses — to calculate the crude protein of any mix yourself, and to substitute ingredients without guessing.
Worked example inside: 50kg maize at 9% CP, plus 30kg soybean meal at 46% CP, plus 20kg wheat offal at 15% CP works out to 21.3% crude protein — close enough to a broiler starter target that you'd know exactly how much more soybean meal or fishmeal to add.
An honest breakdown, not a sales pitch — because the author mixes some feed himself and buys commercial for the rest.
Per kg, for a broiler finisher ration — but it requires scale, time, and reliable ingredient sourcing.
Convenient and consistent, with far less labour — often the right call under 200–300 birds.
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No. Each chapter is written to stand alone — if you only keep layers, you can go straight to the layer formulas and calculation chapters and skip the rest.
The book is written for exactly this starting point. The formulas are given as ready-to-mix recipes first, with the underlying math explained separately in Chapter 6, so you can use it immediately and understand it more deeply over time.
Yes. Every ingredient, reference value and cost comparison is built around what's actually available at a Nigerian feed store, not a foreign textbook adapted for here.
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