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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.
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.
Laying mashes with which an equal weight of grain is to be fed:
Ground yellow corn |
20 lbs |
Ground heavy oats |
12.5 lbs |
Wheat bran |
20 lbs |
Wheat flour middlings |
20 lbs |
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 lbs |
Vitamin A and D feeding oil (when hens are not on range) |
0.4 lbs |
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 |
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 |
3.5 lbs |
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 |
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 lb |
Ground yellow corn |
100 lbs |
Ground oats |
100 lbs |
Wheat bran |
100 lbs |
Wheat middlings |
100 lbs |
Meat scraps |
100 lbs |
Salt |
5 lbs |
Almost any mixture of grain that does not contain too large a proportion of oats is suitable. Popular combinations are:
yellow corn (cracked or whole) |
20 lbs |
wheat |
20 lbs |
OR....... | |
yellow corn |
40 lbs |
wheat |
40 lbs |
oats |
20 lbs |
OR..... | |
Grain Sorghum |
30 to 50 lbs |
yellow corn |
25 to 40 lbs |
wheat |
20 lbs |
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 |
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 |
3 lbs |
Bone meal |
2.5 lbs |
Salt |
0.8 lb |
Vitamin A and D feeding oil |
0.2 lb |
Ground barley |
30 lbs |
Ground wheat |
36.5 lbs |
Soybean oil meal |
12 lbs |
Corn gluten meal or soybean oil meal |
4 lbs |
Peanut oil meal or other suitable plant-protein supplement |
3 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 |
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 |
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 percent of protein supplements of animal origin (including meat scraps, fish meal, and dried dairy by-products). Also, the content of riboflavin should be increased.
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