0 - 6 weeks Start the chicks with medicated starter crumbles / ayam kampung starter on crumbles feed plates or chick feed troughs. Feed with chicks starter until they are 6 weeks of age. Feed troughs; during the first 4 weeks, 50 chicks will require 2 chicks troughs. Feed troughs can be filled full the first 3 days, but should be filled no more than 1/2 to 2/3 full as to reduce feed wastage. These can be replaces with one hanging feeder per 20 chicks at 5 to 8 weeks. The chicks should have access to the feed and water at all times.
6 - 20 weeks Feed them a grower ration. Their feed must contain at least 75% cereals and cereals products (fattening purposes). Recommended to add of at least 30% feed from grasses/weeds/dark leafy green vegetables.
20 weeks onward Start feed the chickens with layer or breeder ration. Daily intake per bird; average 110g of commercial feed / average 170g of wet mash (household scraps). Recommended to add minimum 30% of dark leafy green vegetables/weeds/grasses daily. If birds raised for eggs, the medicated feed then replaced with a non-medicated feed.
Notes
1. Insoluble grit (small stones) are required by poultry if they have access to grain or other foodstuffs. Soluble grit (kulit kerang/siput/ec) cannot be used in replacement. It is not grit, it is used to give laying hens extra calcium for egg-shell production. This extra calcium will cause bone development problems in young chickens.
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