If you are thinking of how many bags of feed will be okay for 1000 layers, then enjoy the calculation below

• Meet John who lives in Abuja, Nigeria
• John recently moved into a new smallholding residence with a wooden outhouse
• He has ambitions of using his outhouse to run a small layer poultry farm enterprise for side income he decides to carefully calculate the amount of feed, by number of bags, he would need to feed his 100 layers:

John’s poultry feed estimate:

The figure John wants to arrive at with this exercise is total number of bags required to feed 100 layer birds over the 72 week laying period (…this being the rearing duration of optimal commercial profitability for layer hens):

In researching layer bird feed online, John finds the following table (within the Hyline Management commercial breeders) estimating the feed requirement of a single layer at intervals of 1 week at a time…

• from day 1 until week 72

Johns quotes from the PDF document the estimated total amount of feed consumed by a commercial layer bird to be:

• 48,944 g (on average) over 72 weeks

If John achieves his goal of buying 100 layers, his feed requirement will therefore be:

100 x 48,944 g =

4,894,400 g

or

4,894 kg

or

4.894 tonnes

…for 72 weeks of rearing.

Depending on the size of feed bags John intends to buy, naturally his number of bags required will vary accordingly:

For example

If John bought 15 kg bags of layer feed…

He would require the following number of bags to feed his layers for the 72 week period:

= 4,894 kg / 15 kg

= 327 bags (rounded up the nearest whole number)

……..
Again, if John bought 25 kg bags of layer feed…

He would require the following number of bags to feed his layers for the 72 week period:

= 4,894 kg / 25 kg

= 196 bags (rounded up the nearest whole number)

How Many bags of Feed for 1000 layers

Thus if 196 bags will go for 100 bags, then roughly 1960 bags will go for 1000 layers for the above stated time period

Next… Happy with his calculations, John goes to market to request some quotes for layer feed from manufacturers.