Applied Animal Nutrition-I

Use of agro industrial by products as a feed during scarcity period

AGRO INDUSTRIAL BY PRODUCTS AS A FEED FOR LIVESTOCK 

• These could form a part of livestock feeding system during scarcity period like drought, flood, tsunami and other natural calamities. These products can be classified based on

I Nutrient content

• Energy rich : Molasses block, Tapioca, Palm fruit, Palm kernel,
• Protein rich  : fish wastes, meat meal, blood meal, pulse husk, animal origin waste,
• Mineral rich : Bone meal, Sea weeds
• Miscellaneous : Brewery waste, Fruit industry waste

II Byproducts from specific industries

• Fibrous crop residues : Paddy straw, Wheat straw, Barley straw, Pulse straw, Husks,
• Sugar industry byproducts : Sugar cane tops, Bagasse, Molasses, Press mud, Condensed molasses soluble/ dried yeast sludge
• Byproducts from forest (fodder tree leaves) : leaves from Bamboo, White oak, Banyan, Babul, Flame of forest, Gliricidia, Subabul, Tamarind, Jack, Neem, Tapoica, Vagai ,
• Non edible and other minor oil cakes eg. Salseed meal, Mahua cake, Neem cake, Rubber seed cake, Tobacco seed cake 
• Meat processing factory waste eg. Meat meal, Bone meal, Blood meal ,
• Animal Organic Waste eg. Poultry litter, Caged layer manure,  Cattle manure.
• Fruit and vegetable factory byproducts : Mango seed kernel or cake, Pineapple waste, Banana, Citrus peels, Dried cocoa pod husk, Oil palm press fibre, Palm oil sludge and cake, Tomato and Potato processing wastes,
• Marine waste and its byproducts eg. Fish waste, Frog meal, Prawn waste
• Aquatic plants eg. Algae, Lotus, Water hyacinth, Sea weed.
• Miscellaneous byproducts eg. Acacia pods, Brewery waste, Coffee waste, Date stone, Maize gluten feed, Oak kernel, Silk worm pupae meal, Tea industries waste, Tapioca waste, Tamarind seed hulls