What’s Missing From Your Chicken Feed? Vitamins, Minerals & Energy – Audio Edition

The protein percentage may be the first number you notice on a bag of chicken feed—but it cannot tell you the whole nutritional story. In this Audio Edition, Rip Stalvey, Carey Blackmon and livestock nutritionist Jeff Mattocks examine the vitamins, minerals and metabolizable energy that help determine how well poultry use their feed. The conversation explains why minimum nutrient requirements are not necessarily optimum levels, how vitamins support vision, feather development, reproduction an...