Every feeding stage, bought properly
Feed is not one purchase. A broiler starter and a broiler finisher are different products with different price drivers, different tonnage and different ways of going wrong. Each hub below covers one stage: what to put in the specification, what moves the cost, which calculator sizes the volume, and how the requirement reaches suppliers after a person has reviewed it.
Broilers
Broiler starter feed
Broiler starter is the small crumble or mini-pellet fed for roughly the first ten days. It is the smallest tonnage of the programme and the most expen…
Open hubBroiler grower feed
Broiler grower feed covers roughly days 11 to 24 and is normally the second-largest tonnage in the cycle. Because volume is meaningful and specificati…
Open hubBroiler finisher feed
Broiler finisher feed covers the last stretch to market weight and is normally the largest single block of the cycle. Because most of the tonnage sits…
Open hubLayers
Layer chick starter feed
Layer chick starter covers the first weeks of the rearing period. Volumes are small relative to the laying cycle but the feed is dense and expensive p…
Open hubPullet developer feed
Pullet grower and developer feed carries birds from the chick phase to point of lay. It is the bulk of rearing tonnage, bought against a body-weight a…
Open hubLaying hen feed
Laying hen feed is the largest and longest feed commitment in egg production, typically 42–48 kg per hen housed over a 52-week cycle. Because feed is …
Open hubSwine
Piglet creep feed
Creep and pre-starter feed is offered to piglets before and around weaning. Tonnage is tiny — often under two kilograms per pig — but price per tonne …
Open hubNursery pig feed
Nursery feed carries pigs from weaning to roughly 25 kg. Phase FCR is the best in the herd programme, commonly 1.4–1.8, but the diets are the most exp…
Open hubGrower pig feed
Grower feed typically covers pigs from about 25 kg to 65 kg, with phase FCR commonly between 2.2 and 2.7. It is the stage where tonnage becomes large …
Open hubFinisher pig feed
Finisher feed covers pigs from roughly 65 kg to market weight, with phase FCR commonly between 2.9 and 3.4. It is the largest tonnage in the programme…
Open hubSow gestation & lactation feed
Sow feed is bought as two distinct diets — a controlled-intake gestation feed and a high-intake lactation feed. Volume is steady across the year rathe…
Open hubShrimp
Shrimp nursery feed
Shrimp nursery feeds — crumbles and micro-pellets for post-larvae and nursery stages — are bought on particle-size distribution, water stability and a…
Open hubShrimp starter feed
Shrimp starter feed covers the first pond weeks after stocking, from small crumbles up to the first grower pellet size. Tonnage is modest but the stag…
Open hubShrimp grower feed
Shrimp grower feed is the bulk of the vannamei cycle and the hardest stage to compare, because survival and feeding management move the result as much…
Open hubShrimp finisher feed
Shrimp finisher feed covers the final pond weeks to harvest weight. It is the largest single-size volume of the cycle, so the commercial risk is timin…
Open hubFish
Tilapia fingerling feed
Tilapia fry and fingerling feeds are crumbles and small extruded pellets stepped up as fish grow. Volumes are small relative to grow-out, so buyers sp…
Open hubTilapia grow-out feed
Tilapia grow-out feed is bought against planned biomass: fish stocked, survival, target harvest weight and FCR give the tonnage. Pellet size steps, fl…
Open hubCatfish grow-out feed
Catfish and pangasius grow-out is a high-volume, thin-margin business, so feed is bought on landed cost per tonne and cost per kilogram harvested toge…
Open hubSalmon grow-out feed
Salmon sea-phase feed is a high-energy extruded diet bought against a biomass plan for the whole cycle, not per delivery. Feed price tracks fish oil a…
Open hubTrout grow-out feed
Trout grow-out feed is bought repeatedly through the year because the cycle is short, so the contract should cover annual tonnage with a delivery sche…
Open hubSeabass grow-out feed
European seabass grow-out feed is bought against a biomass plan across a 16–24 month cycle with a seasonal delivery profile, because intake falls shar…
Open hubSeabream grow-out feed
Gilthead seabream grow-out feed is bought against a biomass plan to a market harvest grade, usually 300–500 g, across a 14–20 month cycle. Feeds are c…
Open hubFeedMatch Group is an independent, supplier-neutral procurement platform. We are not a feed manufacturer, trader, nutritionist, veterinarian or lender, and we do not guarantee prices, supply, FCR or animal performance. Figures on this page are indicative commercial planning ranges, not specifications. Every requirement is reviewed by a person before any supplier is approached, and no supplier receives your details automatically. Last reviewed 16 September 2026.