Feb. 3, 2025

Protein, Fats, and Fiber in Poultry Nutrition

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In this episode of the Poultry Keepers Podcast, Rip Stalvey, Jeff Mattocks, and Carey Blackmon dive into the critical role that proteins, fats, and fibers play in poultry nutrition.

They emphasize the differences between vegetable-based and animal-based protein sources, detail the importance of specific amino acids like lysine and methionine, and discuss the use of fish meal and its sustainability. The hosts also cover age-specific protein requirements for poultry, from chicks to layers, and the importance of balanced amino acid levels for optimal growth and egg production.

They touch on the issues of overfeeding protein and the unique protein needs of breeding stock. The episode concludes with a nod to their sponsors, the Fertrell Company, and a teaser for next week’s conclusion of proteins, fats and fibers.

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Hello! Welcome to the Poultry Keepers Podcast where we cover poultry from Feathers to Function.

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In todays show Rip Stallvee, Jeff Mattocks and Carey Blackmon will be tallking about the importance of Proteins, Fats, and Fibers in poultry nutrition.

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Let;s listen in to their conversation.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're all here tonight I'm here Carey's here Jeff's here from the other side of the world To the miracle of the internet, so glad he could join us tonight.

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We've been missing him.

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But tonight we thought we would talk about the major feed ingredients, talk about proteins, talk about fibers, and we talk about fats.

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But we're going to get a bit of a deep dive.

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And as always, if y'all have a question, don't hesitate to ask us, because we will do our very best to answer those for you.

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The sources of protein in poultry diets, you've basically got two sources, vegetable based proteins and animal based proteins.

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Jeff, I'm guessing that the most popular vegetable based protein is soybean.

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Yeah, unfortunately, the number one, the king of protein across the U.

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S.

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and actually most of the world is solvent extracted soybean meal where they use a chemical decreaser.

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Yes, hexane to loosen and dislodge the flat the fats from the soybean flesh And then they drive it off with forced air and they capture the fat They tell you that they separate the hexane because they want to reuse it.

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It's expensive I don't know.

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Can you ever get a hundred percent out?

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I don't know That's I'm a speculative there.

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So that hexane scares me off a little bit that can be some pretty bad stuff.

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Yeah And I'm suspecting, since soybeans are in there, that the other bees and peens, bees and peas like legumes would be good.

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Canola meal, I know they use that out west, don't they?

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Oh, they're using that in your neck of the woods, even there's a big canola meal processor, in, in North Northwest or Northwest Georgia, but there's several, there's canola is now being grown quite widely throughout the Southwest or through the South Southern states.

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It's a little more drought tolerant

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and

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it has a high oil yield.

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So when the oil market is high, the value of canola is higher.

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But it's easier to grow and it's a good rotation for, in place of soybeans.

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It's just, so you see a lot of canola meal being used more and more.

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It's growing.

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Gotcha.

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I was not aware we had a processing plant in the south now.

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That's good to know.

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And we would be remiss if we got to talking about proteins and we didn't bring up amino acids, one of our favorite subjects.

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Mine anyway.

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Mine for sure.

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Absolutely.

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But amino acids in vegetable proteins, can we get all the amino acids we need strictly from using vegetable proteins?

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It's not that we can't, but the ratios are not right.

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Okay, vegetable proteins tend to be higher in lysine, but they're very short in methionine.

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There's only a couple of vegetable protein sources that have, significant amounts of methionine, and one of them being sesame meal, which is hard to find, right?

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But sesame meal is.

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Really high in methionine.

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So it is an option.

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The other one is camelina meal.

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And, that's part of the mustard family.

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Again, limited supply, pretty much in the Northwest.

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You really don't see it in the South or the East.

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But yeah, for the most part, when you're looking at peas, soybeans, other dry edible beans their ratio of lysine to methionine is about four to one.

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And in a poultry diet, we're looking for about a two to one or a two and a half to one lysine to methionine ratio.

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So I'm assuming then that Animal based proteins have a much better level of those amino acids that are missing in some of the vegetable based protein.

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They do.

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Especially if it's considered a wild animal that's been able to go out and forage and feed on its own.

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That's why I lean a little heavier on the fish meals versus So we're finding that, like commercial meat and bone meal poultry meal, feathered meals, things like that.

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Animals that are being fed corn and soy those amino acids are not as enriched as in like a wild caught fish meal.

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So even I saw this first one with the catfish, which is farmed, widely throughout the south, southern states.

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And the amino acid profile on catfish meal.

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When they take the fillets off and they process it, everything else that's left, those amino acid profiles are not really that great because the catfish is eating a corn and soy based diet.

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Isn't there some other aspects of catfish meal?

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Now that you brought that up, it's been a while since we've talked about catfish meal, and I seem like I recall you saying something, but I honestly can't remember what it was something about perhaps in a way it was processed or something.

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That's,

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yeah, it doesn't have the greatest, clean process whatsoever, but I avoid it because, antibiotics and other chemical treatments are frequently given to the catfish, right?

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People don't realize that those catfish fillets that they may buy or eat at, Cracker Barrel or wherever they like those catfish are probably getting fed as much antibiotics as chickens.

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Just to keep them healthy.

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They have a ongoing regimen to maintain where they're feeding antibiotics to them on a pretty much regular basis.

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That's when you said that, that jogged my memory.

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And that's what I recall.

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That's the

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only reason I avoid it.

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It's, everybody has their own personal preferences and what is okay and what is not okay.

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Everybody needs to make that decision for themselves.

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Oh, sure.

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But, and there's a lot of people using catfish meal and, is it better than pork meal or, for sure.

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I don't really want to feed same species back, so I don't feed any poultry or feather back to, chickens.

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That's just my personal preference again.

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That seems a little weird.

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To feed chicken back to chicken.

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It's a

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common practice.

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It is, but it just seems weird to me.

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In the commercial world, what they look at, okay.

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So most of the protein prices are set based on.

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The price of soybean meal.

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So soybean meal goes up, then all other proteins may go up as well, but in a short period of time, in a 30 day window, they may not adjust quickly.

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Your large like Pilgrim's Pride, Tyson, all of those larger integrators, they'll go buy and shop, they'll go shop and buy Based on the price per pound of protein and so that's why so sometimes, you know You'll see those products are being added into their diets usually not Just depends on what the market price is So they're always shot they got buyers that do nothing but shop and book prices and lock them in Trying to maximize the profit of those corporations.

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Let's talk about fish meal for a minute And sometimes when I mention to people about adding fish meal to their poultry diets, they bring up the point, that's not a sustainably harvested product.

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And I know some of it is not, but I think there's some, and the supplier you use, I mean you showed us the video they do practice sustainable harvesting.

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They do.

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They realize that it's a natural resource that, they're life independent.

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They're dependent on, and they have been for multiple generations.

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They're out there they're checking the catch.

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They're measuring the amount of juveniles.

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They're, they have spotter planes in the air all the time, counting the number of pods.

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But So far, there's no regulation or there's no controls on how much menhaden is caught out of the gulf or along the eastern seaboard.

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If it's good weather and the fish are easy to find, your daybrooks daybrook industries, omega proteins, etc.

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They'll go harvest as much as they can harvest, right?

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They're not really, they're not setting a limit.

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And there, there is Not really sustainability there or there's no oversight.

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There's no oversight and control on the harvest.

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There's nobody really measuring, okay, what is the total population out there?

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How much should we limit the harvest to?

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And nothing like that.

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Whereas like the sardine industry in the Pacific, off the coast of Peru, South America through the Latin American countries and into Mexico, they work together collecting the science and the data and Peru will actually set a harvest limit.

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They'll say, okay, based on our scientific research, we will not harvest more than a thousand metric tons.

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I'm just throwing out a number, right?

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And this small group of fisheries in the Sea of Cortez that I'm working with, the fishing companies there all work together, like all of their owners get together.

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They discuss it.

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They sit down with the Mexican government officials, right?

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They, so they have a sustainability, a sustainable harvest certificate that they go through and the way that they do it.

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And if they're not catching adults, then they'll move or they won't keep.

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fishing juveniles, right?

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Because they know all they're doing is cutting off their future harvest.

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Okay.

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So all fishing is not the same everywhere.

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True.

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Very true.

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Talking about fish meal, I can tell a difference between birds that have.

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My birds especially, if there's fish meal in their diet, or if there's not.

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I see it primarily in the feathers.

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The feather quality is much better if they're on fish meal.

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I think it has a little bit more shine to it.

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That may just be my imagination.

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I don't know.

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And I think I can detect a difference in the taste of the eggs.

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Not negatively.

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It's just a little bit too much fish meal in that.

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Can ruin everything, but it just has a richer or full bodied flavor to it

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Yeah, and if you're still getting feed from Caleb And you know also the other ingredients that are in there again.

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There's no byproducts, right?

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So you're getting a complete feed and then if you add a little bit of fish meal to that now for layers You don't want to go over about three three percent of the diet total Including what may already be in the feed, then you're going to start to taste or smell a little bit of that fish when you're cooking those eggs or eating those eggs, but at 3 percent most people cannot detect it.

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And incidentally I'm not getting feed from Caleb anymore.

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I'm getting it from our compadre down there.

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Mr.

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Blackman.

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Better yet?

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Absolutely.

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Like doing business with friends.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, that's what you're seeing.

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And the natural fats in the fish meal also are going to help with that shine, like you were talking about.

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They're more of a high omega 3 type fish meal, so the bird overall is going to be a little bit more healthy than using all seed oil, seed oils.

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They're able to process it, and we're going to talk about fats later, but right now we're talking about proteins.

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But it's hard to beat a good meat type protein.

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I hope Mike's on tonight.

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I wish he'd chime in.

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Mike Lotzer from Alaska, and now he's feeding, roadkill moose and fishy bear and salmon eggs,

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every time I see him post it just literally amazes me of the things he has to go through and the adaptations he has to make to be able to raise poultry efficiently and effectively up there in Alaska.

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But look, if

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you, if you talk to him about it, the man has got it to a science.

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Oh, he does.

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He's done an astronomical amount of research, but the way he's got it down pat, He's got it to a science, it's more economical, and it's better at the same time.

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And you would think everything in Alaska is ridiculous, but he's made it work.

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I give him a lot of credit for that because, like you said, he is a researchaholic.

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And we're constantly messaging back and forth, bouncing ideas off of each other, but he just, he really impresses me.

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He was willing to go the extra mile to find these resources.

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When he reached out to me and said, I can't bring in roasted soybeans.

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I, these, this is not cost effective for me.

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He goes, I've got to find a way to feed my birds more with more local inputs.

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I said what do you have easy access to?

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On the protein side, we started talking and he gave me a good list and I started looking up the nutrient values and figured putting it all together on a piece of paper.

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And here we go.

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So he seems like he's pretty happy with what's going on up there.

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I think so.

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I think so.

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Let's talk about amino acids and which one impacts a particular thing about poultry.

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For example, lysine is going to be really critical for muscle growth and maintenance, and that also has some impact on feather development.

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And the overall body condition, whereas methionine, my paper is all stuck together here, methionine seems to have more of an impact on feather production and that's, if you're showing birds, okay, I can't say enough, pay attention to the Lysine, methionine, and if you can find out what it is, the cysteine level as well, too, because cysteine is an amino acid that really boosts the feather quality.

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Cysteine is one of the major components in keratin, and that's what makes up chicken feathers.

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Those are really important, and if you're not sure, drop me a message or something, and we can address that for you and give you a little help there.

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Yeah, there's still, there's no good hard data on what the right level of cysteine is.

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Somehow inside the chicken they can convert methionine to be like cysteine.

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However, if You know, and that's why we went with the cysteine in the show pro with Gary is when you can supplement the cysteine Beside the methionine they work much more efficiently everything that I've seen Cysteine should be 50 to 65 percent of what the methionine level is, right?

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You know for shooting for that 0.

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5 methionine I need at least a 0.

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3, right around that cysteine but it's hard to calculate for, even my nutritional program that I do formulas on is old enough that it's not valuing, it's not reporting a cysteine value.

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So I'm not sure how I get that upgraded or what I, where do I go from here, but it's going to be up and coming and it's going to be important.

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Especially for show poultry, right?

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Yes.

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Where you want the absolute best feather formation and quality cysteine is going to be the ticket.

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The others are important as well, but the cysteine is it is the magic key.

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It's the icing on the cake.

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Yes, sir.

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It helps with the sheen, that's for sure.

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Let's talk about age specific.

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Protein requirements.

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Let's start off with baby chicks from the time they hatched till they're what, maybe six weeks old.

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Again, depends on those amino acid levels, you're anywhere from 20 to 22 percent.

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So when I see people posting they're feeding 24 or like a game bird starter, I get really nervous.

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That's a little bit of overkill.

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You can overfeed protein and people just don't can be dangerous.

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Yeah you know there was some post not long ago about gout and Too much protein or too much calcium Can lead to gout and it's hard to fix gout once you get that uric acid buildup it's hard to get it, it's hard to get the bird back to normal.

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It also affects negatively affects the hatch ability of that bird's offspring.

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I've seen it to where a hen had that and she, they were still breeding and all that good stuff.

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But when you would hatch a chick out, that chick would only survive for about a week.

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And it was because of the, the, that had that chick, the chicken, the hen had that gout and it wasn't good.

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And I have seen more comments about people dealing with gout, I think, in the past 12 months than I ever recall seeing before.

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And I don't know if this is because there's this mantra, particularly in the Bantam community, is that birds need a lot of protein, need a lot of protein.

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And that's not really the case.

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They need a well balanced diet, but it doesn't have to be just gobby rich in protein.

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I think for me at one point before I really started learning a whole lot about nutrition, I would start chicks out.

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Like chicken chicks on a quail starter because I knew like I knew the amino acid levels what they should be.

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And if you look at most of your store bought feed, the amino acids on a game bird starter feed is about what they really should be for a chicken.

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And that is part of the reason why it costs a little more and all that.

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But so what I was doing is.

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I would feed them the game bird starter for two, two and a half weeks, but then I would pull them off because I knew that was way too much protein and gout, it burns your kidneys up, all that good stuff for longterm, prolonged uses.

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But I was doing it in the beginning to get them the amino acids that they needed.

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And now that I've learned a whole lot more about nutrition.

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Know that there's ways to get the methionine, lysine, vitamin A, D and B.

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You can get all of that stuff without buying the more expensive game bird feeder feed for your birds.

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And it's a lot better for them.

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But I really think that's the reason why a lot of people do because they don't know ways to supplement the feed, a chick starter that's in that 18 to 22 percent range to get the amino acids and the vitamin levels without doing game bird or something else.

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When you stop and think about it, Kerry, there's really not much information available to folks about doing that.

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No.

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The one that's making me nervous is the people that are buying that 24, that 28 percent protein.

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Oh, yeah.

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And still putting the breeder supplement or the show pro or something like that with it because now you're really kicking it up a notch and You're lighting a fuse on a stick of dynamite.

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You just don't want to do that, right?

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Yeah, it looks good for a little while but you know too much of a good thing is not good

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I had somebody message me earlier today They wanted me to recalculate some numbers because they were feeding one particular type of feed that was not good, but that was all they could get.

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And they were using a breeder supplement.

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and additional feed fish meal.

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And now that they're getting a better feed do I need to change it?

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And I said, yes, definitely.

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You need to change it.

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Let's, let us run some numbers and see.

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What you may need to change it to, but, I really, I don't think they're going to need the fishmeal and the breeder supplement anymore because they're they are buying a better quality feed.

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Yeah, don't, yeah, don't do that.

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You can't overdo it, right?

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Yeah.

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Not only is it bad for the birds, it's bad for your pocketbook in the long run, too.

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Yeah.

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What about grower chicks, Jeff, 6 to 18 weeks old?

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Here in the North, I'm good at an 18%.

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Because they're going to eat a little bit more due to temperature in the South, I would run probably a 19.

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19 or 20, especially in the hot weather because their dietary intake there, the amount of feed they eat every day is going to be reduced, right?

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So again, I'm not looking at the percentage.

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I'm looking at how many grams of protein the bird actually consumes in a day.

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We only can shop for it based on, percent of protein.

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In a hotter climate I'm going to want to run a little bit higher.

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Protein only, because of reduced intake, so like for you down there, Rip, I think a 19 is probably ideal.

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And then up here, I can get by with a 17 and a half or an 18 in the north.

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So

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what about layers?

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And I'm assuming as we're going along, the protein requirements are starting to drop a little bit and I'm assuming that's the same thing for layers, correct?

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Even before you get to layer, so if you're going to do layers, so to speak, then we want to go to a developer feed, which is going to be around 16 and a half, 17 percent protein.

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And so you're doing like six weeks on each stage because when you go to layer, you want the, you want to see an increase in protein at the onset of late because now her demand for protein is higher because she is producing an egg.

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Okay.

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So you go starter grower developer.

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And then and it's, this isn't just for laying chicks.

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This is for everyone, but you don't have, you don't have developer options out there.

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So that's the downside, but I don't know

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When I've seen a developer in the peach store here,

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you have it and you won't, it's just one.

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The customer doesn't know they need it to the feed stores, not going to sell enough of it to keep it on the shelf.

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So you're just not going to see a developer.

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But a developer is actually important, to finish that growth cycle, let things finish out in that hand.

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Or that cockrell, at a little bit slower pace without overfeeding the protein, they don't need that much protein at that stage.

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And then as soon as you see that first egg, we want to jump back up into that again, up here where they're gonna consume a little more, we're gonna want about a 17 or an 18 and then down.

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Down in the South, we would run a 19, 19 or a 20 layer, just depending on how much they're eating every day.

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I'm assuming a hen's going to eat four ounces, above the Mason Dixon line, right?

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Below the Mason Dixon line, probably two and a half to three ounces, if it's good feed, is all she should need, right?

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Now, if it's full of byproducts and other stuff, she'll eat more, trying to compensate and get her energy needs.

00:24:25.736 --> 00:24:29.895
Noah asks, what about birds like Buckeyes that require higher protein?

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Noah, I don't want to step on your toes, but a Buckeye doesn't require any higher protein than any other breed.

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Okay if it's well balanced feed.

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properly put together, they're going to be starting on a 22 dropping down to a 19, same regimen that we just talked about.

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If the amino acids are correct and the feed isn't loaded up with a bunch of byproducts.

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So people are just drunk on protein and way over feeding it in the show world.

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And it's not the protein that makes the difference.

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It is the amino acids.

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Okay.

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What about breeding stock?

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Any difference there in protein requirements or

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needs, I should say?

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I, so once you breeding stocks that you want to collect eggs from and hatch is, we want to have a bump up in vitamins or across the board, A for sure, A and e.

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And we've gotta get the.

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The B vitamins up, the riboflavin, the thiamine, the niacin.

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That's all going to transfer into that egg to give you better chick vigor and increased hatch ability, So I'm looking at increasing those and I would come up a little bit on the amino acids or protein, just during that breeding cycle.

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And that's where adding that little bit of fish meal is going to be huge as far as getting those birds to, to maximize the birds.

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True laying potential.

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Okay, why don't we switch gears?

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