Biovit 10% TP for fattening chicken

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Chemical composition:

• Proteins, % min. 28,00

• Fats, % min. 4,00

• Moisture, % max. 10,00

• Fibre, % max. 3,00

• Calcium, % 7,50 - 8,00

• Phosphorus, % min. 2,50 - 2,70

• Natrium, % 1,40 - 1,60

• Lysine, % min. 2,00

• Methionine, % min. 3,50

One kilogram of mixture contains:

• Vitamin A 150.000 IU

• Vitamin D3 35.000 IU

• Vitamin E 400 mg

• Vitamin K3 30 mg

• Vitamin B1 30 mg

• Vitamin B2 70 mg

• Vitamin B6 40 mg

• Vitamin B12 0,2 mg

• Nicotinic acid 400 mg

• Pantotenic acid 150 mg

• Folic acid 10 mg

• Biotin 1,5 mg

• Holin Chloride 5.000 mg

• Vitamin C 200 mg

• Iron 600 mg

• Copper 80 mg

• Manganese 900 mg

• Zinc 7000 mg

• Iodine 8 mg

• Selenium 2 mg

• Cobalt 2,5 mg

• Antioxidants 1.000 mg

• Coccidiostatic (optional)

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How should I brood day-old chicks?

A chick does not have the ability to maintain its own body temperature without an external source of heat. Naturally brooded chicks are warmed by nestling against their mothers. Groups of chicks can maintain body heat by huddling together, which is why day-old chicks can be shipped by mail.

It is possible to brood chicks in an insulated box with feathers or flaps of cloth hanging from the ceiling, retaining their body heat allowing huddling to work more effectively. But such brooders are tricky to use and less effective than ones that supply external heat.

Large commerical poultry operations generally use big propane brooders with a central brooder and a metal canopy, or hover, that retains the heat. Each brooder handles up 1,000 or more chicks.

Farmers brooding fewer than 1,000 chicks at once generally use electric brooders.

Brooding needs to be performed in an area where drafts, predators, unsupervised children, and cats can be excluded. Some people brood their chicks in their homes, but after trying this myself, I can't recommend it. The smell isn't too bad for the first week, but it becomes really repulsive after that, and the entire room containing the chicks becomes coated with a dust composed largely of dried chick manure.