Table 2.  Starter and Grower Feed Formulas. (Feed formulas that might be used if products are available.)
Ingredients Weight in pounds per 100 pounds of mix
Starter  
(0-8 wks of age)
Grower  
(8-13 wks of age)
Ground yellow corn 21.50 56.0
Standard wheat middlings 30.0 -
Meat scrap (55% protein) 15.0 5.0
Fish meal (60% protein) 10.0 3.775
Dried whey (plain or delactosed) 2.45 -
Soybean meal 10.0 20.0
Alfalfa meal (17% protein) 10.0 10.0
Salt 0.25 0.5
A&D feeding oil (good-2250A) 0.25 -
Antibiotic supplement (25 grams of wide-spectrum antibiotice per pound) 0.05 0.025
Dicalcium phosphate or steamed bone meal - 3.0
Ground limestone or oyster shell - 1.2
Vitamin trace mineral mix* 0.5 0.5
*The vitamin trace mineral mix should contain per pound of the mixture:
Vitamin A (USP units) 1,000,000
Vitamin D3 (ICU) 300,000
Vitamin E (milligrams) 1,200
Vitamin K (milligrams) 350
Riboflavin (milligrams) 600,000
Niacin (milligrams) 8,000
Folic acid (milligrams) 800
d-pantothenic acid (milligrams) 1,000
Choline chloride (milligrams) 60,000
Vitamin B12 micrograms) 1,200
Butylated hydroxytoluene (milligrams) 22,680
Manganese (percent) 2.4
Zinc (percent) 2.2
Iodine (percent) .048
Iron (percent) .8
Copper (percent) .08
Cobalt (percent) .008
Bacitracin (aureomycin or terramycin) +