questions: asking about ration for poultry 
 answers: rations for growing chickens
starter rations:

young chicks require a diet rich in protein and certain vitamins, with a carefully balanced mineral content. two pounds of chick starter dry mash will feed one chick up to about six weeks of age. after that, in the case of the birds to be reared to maturity, a cheaper ration with increasing amounts of whole grain may be used. birds to be killed as broilers, however, should be kept on a more concentrated diet to promote the rapid growth essential to profit in broiler raising.

while one may mix chick starter at home, the simplest plan is to purchase 200 pounds of commercial chick starter mash for each 100 chicks. choose a brand that is flaky or mealy, avoiding the less palatable finely ground mixtures that tend to paste inside the chick's mouth. the dry mash should be stored in a cool dry place and fed fresh daily.

start feeding the chicks as soon as they want to eat. place dry mash on clean egg-case flats (cup type) or on clean cardboard, at several points around the brooder, with possibly a little cracked wheat or chick scratch grain sprinkled over the mash. after two or three days, when all the chicks have learned to eat, place the dry mash in self-feeders. the usual method is to keep dry mash continuously before the birds, though some people prefer to lift the feeders for an hour at a time during each half day.

provide a constant supply of fresh drinking water in clean chick fountains. place hard insoluble grit or fine gravel in pans or hoppers separate from the feed. in addition to the dry mash a little cracked wheat may be fed at three weeks, and a little whole wheat after four weeks.

chick starter no. 1 lbs.	turkey starter lbs.
coursely ground wheat	30.0	25.0
coursely ground oat grouts	18.0	10.0
medium ground barley	15.0	15.0
finely ground oats	10.0	10.0
wheat bran	5.0	5.0
meat meal (60% protein)	5.0	10.0
fish meal (67% protein)	5.0	10.0
milk powder	3.0	4.0
alfalfa leaf meal	5.0	7.0
linseed oil cake meal	1.5	1.5
fine oyster shell or limestone	1.5	1.0
fine iodized salt	0.5	0.5
fish oil (200 d)	0.5	1.0
manganese sulphate (see below)		
100.0	100.0
to each ton of chick or turkey starter mash, add 4 ounces of powdered manganese sulphate, pre-mixed in the salt. thoroughly mix the fish oil into part of the wheat chop until no lumps are left. add each ingredient in a thin even layer over the previous one, starting with the ingredients in the greatest amount and ending with the smaller amounts on top. shovel from the bottom of the pile, turning the mix three times.

chick starter no. 2
suitable if chicks will have good pasture at 2 or 3 weeks of age
coursely ground wheat	40 lbs.	milk to drink
oat chop (sift out coarse hulls)	25 lbs.
barley chop (sift out coarse hulls)	25 lbs.	alfalfa or clover chaff or other green feed, until chicks are on pasture
meat meal (60% protein)	10 lbs.
fine iodized salt	½ lb.	fine gravel and oyster shell in separate pans or hoppers
fish oil (200 d)	½ lb.
  growing rations:

after the chicks are five to six weeks old they may be changed gradually to a coarser and cheaper mixture, e.g. ½ starter mash and ½ growing mash during the sixth and seventh week.

growing mash (in self-feeders)
ground wheat	100 lbs.	  oyster shell and gravel, or limetone grit, in separate pans or feeders
ground barley	100 lbs.
ground oats	75 lbs.
meat meal	25 lbs.
fine salt	3 lbs.
whole grains (in self-feeders)

(whole wheat, whole oats, and other available grains)

to promote the growth of late hatched pullets or of market poultry, give milk to drink as well as water. milk may be used to replace the meat meal in the grower mash, if a separate hopper of bone meal is provided. reduce or omit meat meal or milk if pullets are maturing too rapidly. if pasture is dried up or lacking, add 20 pounds of alfalfa meal and 2 pound of 200 d fish oil to the above growing mash.