Formulate a Finisher Ration for broilers. You are to make enough feed, on DM basis, each time for a flock of 2,000 birds. The birds will be fed this ration for 2 weeks before you start selling them. The ration mix should contain 18% crude protein (CP). You are to use maize, sorghum, soybean meal and sunflower meal as your feed ingredients in the mix. The sorghum is to constitute 10% of the ration while sunflower should make 8% of the ration. The daily requirements are as follows: Feed Intake ME (kcal/kg) Methionine Lysine (%) Ca (%) P (%) + Cystine (%) ------------------------- (% of DMI) ------------------------ 80 g/bird/day 3,200 0.6 0.85 0.8 0.3 The compositions of the feed ingredients are as follows: DM (%) CP (%) ME (kcal/kg) Lysine (%) Methionine (%) Cystine (%) Ca (%) P (%) ----------------------------------------- (DM basis) ------------------------------------------ 

Maize 86 8.3 3,400 0.29 0.17 0.09 0.030 0.27 Sorghum 88 9.2 3,140 0.24 0.09 0.18 0.040 0.28 Soybean 90 44.0 3,340 0.32 0.60 0.67 0.30 0.75 meal Sunflower 92 26.8 2,370 1.70 1.50 0.70 0.460 1.12 meal Other ingredients available (assumed to be 100% DM) are: Dicalcium Phosphate (DCP) Ca 23% P 18% Limestone Ca 36% Lysine and methionine, if deficient, are supplied as synthetic amino acids Formulate the ration, showing all the steps in the process. Values or weights of the feeds to be mixed and the final weight of the ration formulated should be given on as fed basis. If there are any deficiencies, show how you are going to meet them. Indicate how frequent you will be compounding the ration so as you do not run out of feed, not even for a single day. You are encouraged to compound only 500 kg (DM basis) at a time.

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The ration should be formulated as follows Ingredient DM Maize 86 Sorghum 88 Soybean meal 90 Sunflow... View the full answer