Growing broiler chickens on a home farm allows you to provide the family with tender and tasty meat. Most poultry farmers try to feed poultry with natural products: grains, vegetables and potatoes, without resorting to industrial feed. This method of feeding allows you to get environmentally friendly meat. When composing a ration for broilers, it is necessary to include in the menu, in addition to grain and vegetables, various additives that increase the nutritional value of homemade feed. Yeast is one such additive. Read this article for detailed information on how to properly feed broiler chickens with yeast.

Rules for growing broilers at home

The main requirements for the successful cultivation of meat crosses are to provide poultry with a clean and warm chicken coop and complete feed. For rapid growth, a broiler needs to consume compound feed with a protein content of at least 22% and an energy of 320 kcal.

How to give yeast to broilers at home

Feeding chickens with a grain mixture with this additive allows you to enrich the bird's diet with protein. Yeast fungi, developing in a nutrient grain medium, process carbohydrates and glucose from feed into energy, enrich the feed with vitamins, including group B.

Feeding broilers with feed with the addition of feed or baker's yeast gives a complex effect:

  • accelerate the set of muscle mass by 15 - 20%;
  • the bird's appetite improves;
  • strengthens the immune system;
  • digestion improves, feed is absorbed more fully.

Broiler chickens

Important! Chickens do not give pure yeast for feeding broilers! They are added to grain mash.

Broilers should be fed with this additive no earlier than 20 days of age. The first time you should give no more than 2 g of the product for each chicken. As the bird grows, the volume of yeast also increases.

How much baker's yeast to give grown poultry

The yeast rate for broiler chicken is no more than 5% of the total food mass. Exceeding this dose can lead to disruption of the digestive tract. The bird has frequent loose stools, depression.

Important! It is better to buy special yeast for feeding - fodder, in a veterinary pharmacy or store. In extreme cases, you can use a bakery product, slightly reducing the dosage.

The additive is not simply mixed with the grain, but the broiler feed is fermented. To prepare the yeast correctly, you need to follow a few rules.

How to add yeast to broiler feed

The yeast feed is prepared a few hours before feeding the bird. This will require water, crushed grains (barley, wheat, oats) or bran and raw baker's yeast. For 1 kg of grain, 25 - 35 g of yeast and 1.5 liters of warm boiled water are required.

Dilution of yeast is effective in water at a temperature of about 40 degrees. The product is kept for 30 minutes in order for the yeast to activate. Then the mixture is poured into the grain (it should not be cold!) And mix thoroughly.

Add yeast to broiler feed

The container with yeast is removed in a warm place for 5 - 7 hours. During this time, the mixture must be stirred several times to enrich the mass with oxygen.

Advice... In the manufacture of large portions of feed for better aeration of the mass, poultry farmers use compressors.

Such food cannot be stored, as it quickly deteriorates. It is necessary to monitor the eating of yeast grain by broilers, removing uneaten leftovers and cleaning the feeders in time. Fermented grain mass can lead to intestinal upset in chickens.

On a note... To improve the quality of the grain for yeast, it is customary to malt it (pour boiling water over it). Exposing the starch in the grain to high temperatures converts it into sugar, the best breeding ground for yeast. They are introduced into the grain cooled to room temperature.

You can use the sourdough method to avoid having to cook anew each day with yeast. To do this, 10 g of raw yeast is diluted in 2 glasses of warm water and mixed with 500 g of crushed grains. The mass is kept for several hours in a warm place. Then add 3 more glasses of water and a pound of grain to the resulting sourdough. Stir again and leave warm for 24 hours.

The resulting starter culture can be stored in the refrigerator for a week in a closed jar. To prepare broiler feed, take a part of the starter culture and add it to the grain along with warm water. An hour is enough to yeast the entire mass of feed, after which the product can be offered to chickens.

How to add feed yeast to broiler chickens

It will not be difficult to grow a well-fed bird using dry feed yeast in feeding. The proportion of fodder yeast in the home mix for feeding broiler chickens is 5% - 7% throughout the entire feeding period.

Before giving the bird, they do not need to be diluted with water and kept in a warm place. The supplement can be fed dry, along with the rest of the grain.

Feed yeast

Feed yeast for broilers: how to use it correctly in wet mash

More willing chickens to eat wet feed allows broilers to grow more efficiently. A ready-made homemade mixture of grain, feed yeast, salt and vitamin complex can be fed to the bird in the form of a mash. To do this, the mass is moistened with water or milk whey to a crumbly state.

Important! Moisten the feed just before giving the bird. If the chickens have not gnawed the food for a couple of hours, the remains of the mash must be removed.

Tips & Tricks

What grass can be given to broilers

Experienced poultry farmers advise adding additional ingredients when fermenting grain feed.

  • Instead of water, it is useful to use whey or reverse. Milk sugar will give yeast fungi additional nutrition, as well as enrich the feed with microelements (potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron).
  • The introduction of chopped potatoes, beets or pumpkin into the grain mixture enriches the feed with vitamins.
  • In winter, it is especially beneficial to germinate some of the grain before yeast. The seedlings contain additional energy, they have a positive effect on metabolism and digestion, and remove toxins from the body.
  • Yeast feed significantly improves the palatability and nutritional value of the grain. Therefore, for the preparation of yeast, it is beneficial to use low quality grain: chipped, old (but without a bug and mold!). Yeast bran and other milling waste will significantly save on the cost of feed.

Yeast broiler feed is an inexpensive and simple method that can significantly improve poultry weight gain and health.