An Alternative Formula For Maize In Animal, Livestock And Aqua-feed
An Alternative Formula For Maize in Animal, Livestock and Aqua-Feed
Are you a livestock farmer, such as, cattle, sheep, goat, piggery, poultry and fishery to mention but few?, if yes, obviously one of the constraints you are facing is high cost of feed, which is about 70% of your expenditure, it is time you diversify to a more sustainable feeding formula to curb the money you are spending so as to make more profit.
Cassava peels waste has been recognized for ages as a potential animal feed, however, with the latest innovation and improvement in research, it is being established that by adding some values to the cassava peels which involves stages of processing, we are able to arrive at a product which is referred to as high quality cassava peels (HQCP).
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Thus, providing better substitute for maize in poultry as well as energy and fibre to other livestocks.
Local Experimental Factories
Prototype ) in Benue and Kogi States.
The HQCP whole, fine and coarse marsh are the key market products serving as ingredients in animal feed. Up to 25% maize in poultry feed can be replaced with HQCP fine mash. There is a growing need in Benue and Kogi states, North-Central Nigeria, where the products have been promoted through the Oracle farm in Makurdi.
Results of High-Quality Peels Experiments on Livestock Farming
To ascertain the results, ILRI worked with Amo-Byng, Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Ltd, in 2018 to conduct independent evaluation of the quality of cassava peels mash on broiler and layer chickens and beef cattle.
Layer and broiler birds fed the HQCP mash at a replacement rate of 50kg/ton, performed similarly on feed intake, conversion efficiency, egg production, growth rate and achieved 10-12% lower feed costs compared with control birds on maize based diet.
Rams fed 591g/d coarse cassava peels and cassava leaves attained average weight gain of 66.5g, while growing pigs receiving 30% HQCP mash diet achieved feed conversion ratio of 5.97
Also, according to Premium Fish Feeds, fish fed with the fine mash feed have achieved a feed conversion ratio (FCR) of 1:1, compared with 1: 0.5 on conventional feed. Premium Fish Feed currently have a production capacity of 6,000 kg of feed daily with ample room for further expansion.
The company off-takes up to 6 tons of HQCP fine marsh weekly.
ATT Farms Makurdi, Benue State, is a livestock farm rearing pigs, chicken, fish and turkey. The farm buys HQCP from Oracle farms for livestock feeding. The pigs are fed an average of 50kg coarse marsh weekly while the turkey birds are fed on the fine marsh.
Testimony from Sam Yuuha of Oracle Farms Ltd in Benue State, “our cattle now eats processed cassava peels, one cannot think of a better way to use the cassava peels in livestock feed, other than this initiative of processing the peels into High Quality Cassava Peels (HQCP).”
Some Frequently Asked Questions
1.How are you going to apply it on goats, sheep, cattle nd piglets?
✓ You will be taught on livestock and animal feed formula
2: The application for fish and adult pigs?
✓ same answer as above.
3 Is to be use for snails, grass cutters, rabbits, chickens eg, layers, nonlers, broilers?
✓Only chickens, layer, broiler.
4 At what scale for all the livestocks?
✓ there is a standard measurement for all the birds and animal categories ( Feedmill calculator)
5: What is the measurement for these animals?
✓ same answer provided on question 4
6: How are we going to administer on fishes? If so on snails? On fishes because of floating water.
✓ we have floating and sinking method of use for your fishes, but not for snails
Thus, providing better substitute for maize in poultry as well as energy and fibre to other livestocks.
Local Experimental Factories
Prototype ) in Benue and Kogi States.
The HQCP whole, fine and coarse marsh are the key market products serving as ingredients in animal feed. Up to 25% maize in poultry feed can be replaced with HQCP fine mash. There is a growing need in Benue and Kogi states, North-Central Nigeria, where the products have been promoted through the Oracle farm in Makurdi.
Results of High-Quality Peels Experiments on Livestock Farming
To ascertain the results, ILRI worked with Amo-Byng, Amo Farm Sieberer Hatchery Ltd, in 2018 to conduct independent evaluation of the quality of cassava peels mash on broiler and layer chickens and beef cattle.
Layer and broiler birds fed the HQCP mash at a replacement rate of 50kg/ton, performed similarly on feed intake, conversion efficiency, egg production, growth rate and achieved 10-12% lower feed costs compared with control birds on maize based diet.
Rams fed 591g/d coarse cassava peels and cassava leaves attained average weight gain of 66.5g, while growing pigs receiving 30% HQCP mash diet achieved feed conversion ratio of 5.97
Also, according to Premium Fish Feeds, fish fed with the fine mash feed have achieved a feed conversion ratio (FCR) of 1:1, compared with 1: 0.5 on conventional feed. Premium Fish Feed currently have a production capacity of 6,000 kg of feed daily with ample room for further expansion.
The company off-takes up to 6 tons of HQCP fine marsh weekly.
ATT Farms Makurdi, Benue State, is a livestock farm rearing pigs, chicken, fish and turkey. The farm buys HQCP from Oracle farms for livestock feeding. The pigs are fed an average of 50kg coarse marsh weekly while the turkey birds are fed on the fine marsh.
Testimony from Sam Yuuha of Oracle Farms Ltd in Benue State, “our cattle now eats processed cassava peels, one cannot think of a better way to use the cassava peels in livestock feed, other than this initiative of processing the peels into High Quality Cassava Peels (HQCP).”
Some Frequently Asked Questions
1.How are you going to apply it on goats, sheep, cattle nd piglets?
✓ You will be taught on livestock and animal feed formula
2: The application for fish and adult pigs?
✓ same answer as above.
3 Is to be use for snails, grass cutters, rabbits, chickens eg, layers, nonlers, broilers?
✓Only chickens, layer, broiler.
4 At what scale for all the livestocks?
✓ there is a standard measurement for all the birds and animal categories ( Feedmill calculator)
5: What is the measurement for these animals?
✓ same answer provided on question 4
6: How are we going to administer on fishes? If so on snails? On fishes because of floating water.
✓ we have floating and sinking method of use for your fishes, but not for snails
7: How effective on fish..can it be use alone as feed or together with other feeds?.
✓ always better to combine HQCP, with others vitamins and recipes to make a standard feedmill .
HQCP, is just Only One aspect out of several others recipe required to make standard Feedmills, but it's the cheapest recipe compared to Maize in feed formulation. Meaning, we can remove maize and replace with HQCP
We offer you the following products at a relative low price:
• High quality cassava peels (HQCP) FINE MASH : for feeding poultry, fish and piglets, ₦100 per KG or ₦90,000 per MT (20 bags of 50 kg).
• High quality cassava peels (HQCP) COARSE MASH : for feeding cattle, sheep, goats and adult pigs, ₦100 per KG or ₦90,000 per MT (20 bags of 50 kg).
HQCP, is just Only One aspect out of several others recipe required to make standard Feedmills, but it's the cheapest recipe compared to Maize in feed formulation. Meaning, we can remove maize and replace with HQCP
We offer you the following products at a relative low price:
• High quality cassava peels (HQCP) FINE MASH : for feeding poultry, fish and piglets, ₦100 per KG or ₦90,000 per MT (20 bags of 50 kg).
• High quality cassava peels (HQCP) COARSE MASH : for feeding cattle, sheep, goats and adult pigs, ₦100 per KG or ₦90,000 per MT (20 bags of 50 kg).