Feed ingredients & Growing it

U_Stormcrow

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Do I think it would do it? No. I don't.

However, I don't know for certain. Some milk products were used in Old feed recipes from the early 1900's. There are some components in milk which chickens can't easily or effectively Digest. And of course while milk is relatively cheap, we don't see milk used in chicken feed in spite of government price supports. That suggests that other ingredients are better on one basis or another, possibly nutrition oh, probably price.

I would have to look into it further before I had an answer I could be confident in, but my initial thought is no for reasons above.
 

U_Stormcrow

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Based on the data here, yes you can use dehydrated non-fat milk powder. Its about 36% protein, 1% fat, negligible fiber. Good source of calcium and non-phytate phosphorus. Also selenium and a host of other good things. It contains roughly half as much Met, Lys, and Thre as an equal weight of "average" fish meal, and about 70% of the Tryp. For comparison with Flax, its got roughly twice the Met, 250-260% the Lys, about 160% the Thre, and almost twice the Tryp.

Could probably build a recipe with it, with some monkeying around with the numbers, which wouldn't be terrible. Expensive, but not terrible from a nutrition standpoint.

How expensive? 2# of Anthony's Nonfat Milk Powder is almost $15 right now. I can buy 50# of feed for that.
 

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