Category: Poultry Nutrition

The need towards optimising poultry feeding has become a salient topical issue over the years due to the astronomical increase in poultry feed ingredients. Recently, the cost of maize which forms approximately 50% of of the diet of a typical layer ration was recently listed as 407 naira per kilo.

Commercial Laying birds are physiologically and genetically adapted to laying 1 table egg at least every 24hours. These birds require unique nutrients in their diet to cater for the huge burden of meeting up the physiological demands of laying eggs, these nutritional requirements needs to be satisfied to achieve optimal production in terms of egg […]