Shrimp finisher feed: buying the last weeks without overstocking 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 timing: feed bought for a harvest that moves becomes stock sitting in a humid store. Buyers contract a delivery schedule tied to the biomass plan, not one bulk drop.
Who buys at this stage
- Farms scheduling the last deliveries against a moving harvest date
- Buyers splitting the cycle so finisher volume is priced separately
- Operations comparing imported and local finisher feed on landed cost per tonne
Form and packaging
- Final pellet size and the changeover weight agreed in writing
- Water stability requirement in minutes
- 25 kg bags, with pallet, container and stuffing details for imported volumes
Commercial feed types
Large sinking pellets
The final size step; state the size and the shrimp weight it starts at.
Reduced-marine finisher diets
Where you are trialling fishmeal replacement, price it as a separate line and keep the comparison explicit.
What the RFQ must specify
- Standing biomass, target harvest weight and expected harvest window
- Remaining feeding days and daily feeding rate assumption
- Delivery schedule with the flexibility you need if harvest slips
- Quantity per shipment and committed annual volume
- Delivery point, port and preferred Incoterm
- Delivery schedule and acceptable lead time
- Packaging and pallet or bulk handling constraints
- Certifications and documents required with each shipment
- Currency, price basis and how long the price must hold
What moves the cost
- Marine and plant protein markets, which dominate the formula
- Freight, duties and port handling on the largest tonnage of the cycle
- Harvest timing — feed left over after harvest is a direct loss
- Feeding management and water quality, which move FCR at the heaviest biomass
Storage and shelf life
- Plan the last deliveries so the store empties at harvest
- Humidity control matters most on the biggest tonnage
- Agree with the supplier what happens to an undelivered balance if harvest moves
Certifications and documents to ask for
- GMP+ B1 / FAMI-QS or an equivalent feed safety scheme
- HACCP plan and the mill's own quality manual
- Certificate of analysis per batch (proximate analysis, moisture)
- Mycotoxin, salmonella and heavy-metal testing regime
- Traceability of raw materials and batch numbering
- Non-GMO, halal or organic certification where your market requires it
- Country-specific feed registration and import documentation
Supplier evaluation checklist
- Installed capacity against your monthly tonnage, not just the annual total
- Evidence of supplying the same stage and pellet form commercially
- Batch consistency record and how out-of-spec batches are handled
- Lead time from order to delivery, and behaviour during raw-material volatility
- Price basis: fixed, indexed to a named raw material, or reviewed periodically
- Delivery capability to your point, Incoterm and vehicle or vessel constraints
- Technical support available on-site and the escalation route when results slip
Worked commercial example
Illustrative arithmetic on the inputs shown — not a benchmark, a price or a performance promise. Replace every figure with your own.
- · Standing biomass 400 t, target harvest 560 t
- · FCR 1.6 on the remaining 160 t of gain
- · Delivered finisher feed 1,200 per tonne
- → Finisher feed ≈ 256 t
- → Cost of the finishing phase ≈ 307,000
- → Split into 4 deliveries of ≈ 64 t against the harvest window
Size the volume first
Other shrimp stages
Questions buyers ask
How much finisher feed should I contract?
What happens if harvest is delayed?
Does FeedMatch sell shrimp feed?
How the request is handled
You submit the requirement, a person at FeedMatch reviews it, and only then are qualified suppliers approached on your behalf. Offers come back normalised to the same delivered basis so they can actually be compared. No supplier receives your details automatically and no introduction happens without that review.
Submit a feed project requestFeedMatch 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.