Making your own feeds or supplements

[Jotham79]

Over the last couple of years there have been some questions about making your own feed. Now that I am here full time I am starting to make and supplement my feeds. Sometimes I mix the regular feed and the supplement depending on what I am trying to do. I am not saying this is for everyone, but I find I can shave a few baht off my feed bill without hurting my output.

I don’t have a pellet mill so feed everything as a mash. I use soybean meal now, but when I did this a few years back I used feed for baby pigs that was around 34% protein. I don’t have access to fishmeal. I either let my animals free range or provide them with fruits and vegetables. There are some special things I do to fatten those destined for the pot.

I have a spread sheet I use, but have not been able to upload it so if anyone knows how, I’d appreciate hearing about it. I am including a photo of it and hope to upload it soon. Here is a picture of the spreadsheet:

Here are some photos of the contents and packages:

These are the corn sweepings.

Here is the soybean meal and photo of the bag.

Here the fine rice polishings are on the left and medium polishings are on the right

Here is the front and back of the calcium package.

[David48]

Mate, re the spreadsheet, I don't think you can upload it as a 'spreadsheet' ... it's not a permissable file.

I hope you don't mind, and trying to help, I've cropped the photo and stored it for you.

Let me know if you don't want it displayed like this and I can delete the image from PhotoBucket.

[Jotham79]

David, that is great. Konwan put up a spreadsheet for cassava years ago and that is where I got the idea. If anyone wants it, just PM me.