Morrisons All Mash Poultry Rations

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Morrison’s All Mash Poultry Rations

The following recipes are excerpts from Morrison’s Feeds & Feeding, 21st Edition, pages 1182 through 1184. The text and combinations below are identical to those found in the book; only the layout and format have changed.

NOTE: Some ingredients listed below, such as wheat middlings, aree the products created as part of various grain milling operations for other foods. We know many flock owners do not have access to such ingredients in small quantities, even if they grow their own crops. We are currently building a Feed Ingredients Glossary page to help folks ID these ingredients and find substitutes as possible.

NOTE: All the following formulations have either corn and/or soy. Since these are the feed ingredients which flock owners are typically most motivated to replace. The recipes in Morrison's, and the feeds at that time, relied heavily on those two ingredients to provide the bulk of plant-based protein for flocks. For a list of recipes which do not rely on either corn or soy, please visit our Non Corn/Soy Recipes page.

Mash and Scratch Blends for
Laying Hens and Laying Pullets

Ration #1

Ground yellow corn	20 lbs
Ground heavy oats	12.5 lbs
Wheat bran	20 lbs
Wheat flour middlings	20 lbs
Drilled skimmilk or buttermilk	2.5 lbs
Meat scraps	17.5 lbs
Alfalfa meal (low fiber)	5 lbs
Ground limestone or oyster shell flour	2 lbs
Salt	0.5 lb
vitamin A and D feeding oil when hens are not on range	0.4 lb

Ration #2

Ground yellow corn	25 lbs
Ground oats	10 lbs
Wheat standard middlings	10 lbs
Soybean oil meal	24 lbs
Peanut oil meal or other suitable plant-protein supplement	5 lbs
Meat scraps	4 lbs
Alfalfa meal	9 lbs
Distillers’ dried solubles	2 lbs
Ground limestone	5.5 lbs
Bone meal	3.5 lbs
Salt	1.6 lbs
Vitamin A and D feeding oil	0.4 lbs

Ration #3

Ground barley	30 lbs
Ground wheat	12 lbs
Soybean oil meal	20 lbs
Corn gluten meal or soybean oil meal	7.5 lbs
Peanut oil meal or other suitable plant-protein supplement	4 lbs
Meat scraps	3.5lbs
Dried whey	2 lbs
Alfalfa meal	10 lbs
Ground limestone	5.5 lbs
Bone meal	3.5 lbs
Salt	1.6 lbs
Vitamin A and D feeding oil	0.4 lbs

Ration #4

Ground grain sorghum	30 lbs
Ground barley	13 lbs
Soybean oil meal	22.5 lbs
Peanut oil meal or other suitable plant-protein supplement	7.5 lbs
Meat scraps	4 lbs
Alfalfa meal	10 lbs
Distillers’ dried solubles	2 lbs
Ground limestone	5.5 lbs
Bone meal	3.5 lbs
Salt	1.6 lbs
Vitamin A and D feeding oil	0.4 lbs

For Hens On Good Pasture:

Ground yellow corn	100lbs
Ground oats	100 lbs
Wheat bran	100 lbs
Wheat middlings	100 lbs
Meat scraps	100 lbs
Salt	5 lbs

All-Mash Rations for
laying hens and laying pullets

In addition to the mash and scratch grain in these rations, oyster shell or another source of calcium should be available at all times in hoppers. Plenty of fresh water should also be furnished. Cod-liver oil or other suitable vitamin-rich fish oil should be added to the mash when the hens are confined. To insure an ample supply of manganese, 0.25lbs. of manganese sulfate should be added to each ton of mash.

Ration #1:

Ground yellow corn	50.5 lbs
Wheat bran	10 lbs
Wheat flour middlings	20 lbs
Meat scraps	7.5 lbs
Dried skimmilk	2.5 lbs
Alfalfa meal	5 lbs
Salt	0.5 lb
Oyster shell meal or ground limestone	3 lbs
Cod liver oil	1.0 lb

Ration #2:

Ground yellow corn	42.5 lbs
Ground oats	10 lbs
Wheat standard middlings	15 lbs
Wheat bran	5 lbs
Soybean oil meal	12 lbs
Peanut oil meal or other suitable plant protein supplement	3 lbs
Meat scraps	2 lbs
Alfalfa meal	4 lbs
Ground limestone	3lbs
Bone meal	2.5 lbs
Salt	0.8 lb
Vitamin A and D feeding oil	0.2 lb

Ration #3:

Ground barley	30 lbs
Ground wheat	36.5 lbs
Soybean oil meal	12 lbs
Corn gluten meal or soybean oil meal	4lbs
Peanut oil meal or other suitable plant-protein supplement	3 lbs
Meat scraps	2 lbs
Alfalfa meal	6 lbs
Ground limestone	2.5lbs
Bone meal	3lbs
Salt	0.8 lb
Vitamin A and D feeding oil	0.2lb

Ration #4:

Ground grain sorghum	40 lbs
Ground barley	28 lbs
Soybean oil meal	12.5 lbs
Peanut meal or other suitable plant-protein supplement	5 lbs
Meat scraps	2 lbs
Alfalfa meal	6 lbs
Ground limestone	2.5 lbs
Bone meal	3 lbs
Salt	0.8 lb
Vitamin A and D feeding oil	0.2 lb

Mashes for Breeding Hens

For hens producing eggs for hatching, the same sort of mashes are satisfactory, except that a mash to be fed with grain should contain at least 7 to 9 per cent of protein supplements of animal origin (including meat scraps, fish meal, and dried dairy byproducts). Also, the content of riboflavin should be increased.

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