![]() ![]() My math skills were a little rusty so a friend volunteered to help with some of the formulas and more complex Excel editing, but I couldn’t be more thrilled with the outcome and the solid collaboration. With inspiration from some nutrition calculators I’ve found, I decided to make my own to suit my needs. However, many tools I found did not contain the ingredients I was interested in using, were difficult to edit, overly complex, or geared to the wrong breed of animal. To calculate my own recipe, I needed a tool to “plug and play” ingredients to reach a desirable protein and fat content. What is available online does not typically work for my region. Wheat, rye, quinoa, sesame seed, and flax seed typically do not, and these are frequent flyers on many ingredient lists. For example, lentils, amaranth, buckwheat, corn, peas, sunflower seeds, and soybeans all grow well in Zone 6B. There are many poultry feed recipes available online, but few of them incorporated what I am capable of growing in my region. In planning what to grow, I had to plan in advance what I can incorporate into the feed and still provide balanced nutrition, so that means I need to formulate feed ratios before I begin growing. It is doubtful I am growing enough for more than 1-2 months of feed, but I wanted to ensure the things I am growing can be grown and harvested successfully. ![]() This year I have decided to grow a few items that could be used to feed my chickens. ![]() #Chicken math calculator downloadYou cannot edit it as is, but you can download it as an Excel sheet and then begin editing. If you can't remember the exact age, just make an educated guess.To save time in scrolling you can click HERE to check out the calculator, but I encourage you to read this page at least once.
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