Resources Tagged: Animal Feed

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  1. Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST)

    FEAST To feed themselves and their families, and to benefit from increasing demand for livestock products in developing countries, livestock keepers must have access to good quality feed for their livestock. Feed availability is currently a major constraint to increasing livestock productivity...
    Animal Feed East Africa Asia West Africa Latin America and ...

  2. Insects for Food and Feed

    2017-10-23 Insects are an often-overlooked food and feed source. In many areas of the world, they have been eaten for centuries.Where insects are not typically viewed as a food source, people often have an internal aversion to eating them.Insects make sense as a food and feed source for many reasons. First,...
    Black Soldier Fly Insects Edible Insects Animal Feed Growing Food

  3. Stock Feed Making and Feed Formulation – Presentation – ZONFA

    Workshop objectives: Train participants on how to make their own stock feed Understand the benefits of making pelleted feeds over mash or crumbs Participants should be able to significantly reduce the stock feed expense
    Downloads ZAS Feed Options Animal Feed

  4. Russian Comfrey for Fertilizer, Feed and More

    2014-04-20 Comfrey is a unique perennial plant that requires minimal maintenance after planting and that can give high, sustained yields of nutrient-rich leaves for use as fertilizer, animal feed and more. It is high in potassium (K) and other micronutrients, and seems to improve fruiting and disease...
    Compost Garden Compost Chicken feed Vitamin A Pig Feed Animal Feed Fertilizer Perennial

  5. Making Own Poultry Feeds Formulae, Rations and Ingredients

    Poultry feed is food for farm poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese and other domestic birds. Before the twentieth century, poultry were mostly kept on general farms, and foraged for much of their feed, eating insects, grain spilled by cattle and horses, and plants around the farm. This was...
    Downloads ZAS Animal Feed Poultry Poultry Feed Poultry production

  6. Job’s Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi L.), a Resilient and Multipurpose Grain

    2013-07-20 Job’s tears is a 1 to 2 m tall grass thought to originate from Southeast Asia. It is found throughout most of the tropics, often in wild stands along ditches and streams. Depending on the variety, the seeds are yellow, purple or brown and are often tearshaped; hence, the name “Job’s tears.” There...
    biomass Job's Tears Poultry Feed Animal Feed Flour Intercropping

  7. AN Issue #31

    2017-06-08 Feed Options for Ruminants in the Tropics Creating a Low-Cost Seed Dryer for Local Seed Banks
    Ruminants Animal Feed Seed Drying Seed Bank Asia

  8. Technique for Maggot Production – 2010

    Maggot is the larvae of the domestic fly (Musca domestica). The Songhai Centre in Porto‐Novo has facilities for and engages in the mass production of maggots as a solution to the high cost of feed in fish and livestock production. A brief review of a maggot production enterprise in Songhai is...
    Animal Feed Maggot Meal Black Soldier Fly Downloads ZAS

  9. Feed Options for Ruminants in the Tropics

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 31. The amazing multi-stomached ruminant comes in many forms, with varied nutritional requirements. Ruminants are even-toed, cloven-hoofed, four-legged, cud-chewing mammals of the suborder Ruminantia (within order Artiodactyla). Cattle, water buffalo, goats,...
    Pasture and Feed C... Animal Feed Ruminants Asia

  10. Feeding and Working Strategies for Oxen Used for Draft Purposes in Semi-Arid West Africa

    This report gives details of 4 experiments, the results obtained and based on these, the recommendations made regarding feeding and working strategies. The four experiments were investigating the energy costs of walking on soils of different consistencies and the efficiencies of doing work,...
    Animals in Semi-Ar... Semi-arid West Africa Animal Feed Feeding and Feeds Cattle Production Oxen Draft Animals