Project Report on Poultry Feed [EIRI-0793]

The manufacture of the concentrated poultry feeds is a hi-Tech area; For the formulation of concentrate a veterinary doctor having extensive field  experience is a must; to prevent any disaster in form of large scale mortality which may be due to imbalance in disease preventive medicines and vitamins added in the concentrate  formulated. The proposed project is for manufacture of  concentrated poultry  feeds in pellet form and powder  form. This is  the  most advanced and modern method of feeding  poultry.  The advantages of  pelleted   feed   enriched  with controlled doze of  vitamin and disease preventive medicines are that these enable  the  poultry farmers  to achieve assured and (rated) growth right  from  chick stage  to  Broiler. There is minimum wastage which made  it  more economical. Poultry  feeding  is  currently based on a well  developed knowledge of the  principles  of poultry nutrition that  has  been put  in to extensive practice. Chickens as is the case with all higher animals, have much more complex nutrient needs. More than 40 specific chemical  compounds or chemical elements are nutrients  that need to the present in the diet to support life growth and reproduction. These nutrients can be divided into six classes.