Now in its fifth decade in supplying game feed to a niche market, Keepers Choice continue to uphold robust standards in formulating diets, from feeding partridge chicks to adult pheasants.
It’s not long before the first chicks will be arriving and every keeper in the land will be doing their utmost to ensure survival rates are high and that the selection of poults from each batch will be well feathered, even in size and in good health.
Great care is taken in formulating starter diets as intakes in the first few hours and days are low and literally every single mouthful matters!
Physical quality is absolutely paramount as a bag containing an unacceptable level of dust will do nothing to help intakes, so product batches need to be consistent and this is achieved by formulations being consistent from batch to batch.
It is important to remember that a single feed material does not make a diet; it is the nutrient specification being achieved by an overall mix of palatable, digestible, quality feed materials that is key to a truly successful feed ration.
Starter crumbs and micro pellets are formulated using a wide selection of raw materials; to a very high specification which is not always clear from the label.
Energy levels are high and we include; over and above background levels, extra vitamins A, D3 and E to the optimum levels to ensure chicks start metabolising feed from day one.
Savings of £10-£12 per tonne could be made by cutting energy levels and a further £15-£20 by reducing added vitamins and amino acids but to what end? Potentially less poults to wood and spending more by having to buy in poults to make up the losses.
“The quality remains long after the price has been forgotten” – F. Henry Royce (Rolls-Royce)
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