Feed and feed inputs
Minerals and vitamins
Macro minerals and vitamin products bought on assay, particle size and carrier.
What matters when buying feed minerals and vitamins?
Specify the assay and impurity limits, particle size and carrier, the product form (for vitamins, whether it is a protected or diluted form), batch certificates of analysis, shelf life and storage conditions, and check that the form suits your mixing and pelleting process.
Procurement guidance, not nutritional or veterinary advice · Reviewed
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Product types (7)
- No supplier offer documented
Limestone
Primary calcium source for layer, breeder and ruminant diets.
Typical uses (guide, not a supplier claim): Poultry · Pigs · Dairy cattle
- No supplier offer documented
Dicalcium Phosphate (DCP)
Priced off phosphate rock, sulphuric acid and freight, and specified on P assay, fluorine and cadmium.
Typical uses (guide, not a supplier claim): Poultry · Pigs · Dairy cattle · Beef cattle · Sheep & goats · Fish & shrimp
- No supplier offer documented
Monocalcium Phosphate
The standard phosphate for shrimp and high-performance broiler, layer and pig diets.
Typical uses (guide, not a supplier claim): Poultry · Pigs · Fish & shrimp
- No supplier offer documented
Salt
Sodium and chloride supply, electrolyte balance and palatability.
Typical uses (guide, not a supplier claim): Poultry · Pigs · Dairy cattle · Beef cattle · Sheep & goats · Fish & shrimp
- No supplier offer documented
Feed Vitamins
Fat- and water-soluble vitamins supplied as micro-encapsulated commodity actives (A, D3, E, K3, B1–B12, C, biotin, folate).
Typical uses (guide, not a supplier claim): Poultry · Pigs · Dairy cattle · Beef cattle · Fish & shrimp · Pet food · Horses
- No supplier offer documented
Trace Minerals
Zinc, copper, manganese, iron, selenium, iodine and cobalt for feed — supplied as inorganic sulphates and oxides, hydroxy (basic) salts or organic chelates and proteinates, either as straights or as a finished trace mineral premix.
Typical uses (guide, not a supplier claim): Poultry · Pigs · Dairy cattle · Beef cattle · Sheep & goats · Fish & shrimp
- No supplier offer documented
Zinc Oxide & Trace Mineral Premix
Feed-grade zinc oxide and the finished trace mineral premix built around it — zinc, copper, manganese, iron, selenium, iodine and cobalt blended to a formula. Bought on guaranteed assay, cadmium and lead load, carrier quality and homogeneity, not on price per tonne.
Typical uses (guide, not a supplier claim): Poultry · Pigs · Dairy cattle · Beef cattle · Sheep & goats · Fish & shrimp
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General buying considerations from the cited public sources — not supplier claims, nutrition values or advice on feeding animals. Confirm suitability with your nutritionist or veterinarian and with the supplier's documents for the specific lot.
Protected (coated or beadlet) vitamin A
Best fit when: When you want vitamin A supplied in a protected, stabilised form.
Check carefully: Check the protection against your own pelleting conditions — compression can destroy wax coatings and stabilised fat beadlets.
Source: FAO — Stability of micro-ingredients in fish feed (Chapter 14)
Diluted vitamin forms (e.g. vitamin B12) for premixing
Best fit when: When you prepare premix and need very small-inclusion vitamins in a diluted form.
Check carefully: Check particle size and how the ingredient will be pre-diluted — tiny quantities added straight to feed cannot be distributed uniformly.
Source: FAO — Stability of micro-ingredients in fish feed (Chapter 14)
Source notes: each row paraphrases the linked page (FAO — Stability of micro-ingredients in fish feed (Chapter 14)). Sources checked .
What a supplier must document
FeedMatch asks for these before an offer is presented to you. Anything a supplier has not documented stays marked as missing — it is never estimated.
- Assay and impurity limits (e.g. heavy metals)
- Particle size and carrier
- Certificate of analysis per batch
- Shelf life and storage conditions