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Expolring Alternative Feeds in Poultry

The document discusses alternative feed ingredients for poultry, highlighting nutritional, technical, and socio-economic aspects. It provides examples of various fruits, roots, tubers, legumes, and insects that can be included in poultry diets, along with their recommended inclusion rates. Additionally, it mentions the use of forages and agro-processed by-products as viable feed options.

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Expolring Alternative Feeds in Poultry

The document discusses alternative feed ingredients for poultry, highlighting nutritional, technical, and socio-economic aspects. It provides examples of various fruits, roots, tubers, legumes, and insects that can be included in poultry diets, along with their recommended inclusion rates. Additionally, it mentions the use of forages and agro-processed by-products as viable feed options.

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Exploring

alternative
feeds in
poultry
HARISH COOLMAN
Factors limiting the use of feed ingredients in
poultry feed

NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS. TECHNICAL ASPECTS SOCIO-ECONOMIC


ASPECTS.
Source: Velmurugu, R: Poultry
feed availability and nutrition in
developing countries. Poultry
Development Review. Website:
https://www.fao.org/3/al706e/
al706e.pdf
Examples of fruits and fruit co-products
Feed stuff Inclusion
Banana and plantain meal Between 10 – 20%
Breadfruit meal 30% maximum
Jack seed meal Processed meal used at a maximum of
30%
Mango seed kernel meal Processed meal used between 5 - 10%

Source: Velmurugu, R: Poultry feed availability and nutrition in developing countries.


Website: https://www.fao.org/3/al706e/al706e.pdf
Examples of roots, tubers and grain legumes
Feed Stuff Inclusion
Cassava root meal Can be used at levels of 30–40% in nutritionally
balanced, pelleted diets. (needs detoxification to
remove the cyanogenic glucosides).
Sweet potato tuber meal Can be used at levels up to 50%.
Taro (Edoes) Processed meal can be used at up to 10%
Chick peas, cowpeas, pigeon peas Can be used at up to 20–30% when processed.
Other
Feed Stuff Inclusion
Copra meal C.P. is 20%, inclusion rate is up to 10%, has
high fibre.
Cassava peel meal Inclusion rate at 5%. Limitations: high fibre,
very high levels of cyanogenic glucosides.
The African Giant Snail The bodies of snails contain hydrocyanic
acid, but this toxic factor can be completely
eliminated by cooking. (according to FAO).
Use of insects – High in Proteins
Fly larvae (has 63% Protein)
Earthworms
Termites
Black Soldier Fly larvae
Some Forages for poultry
Tropical Alfalfa – leguminous, high in protein.
Mulato Grass – high in protein.
Gliricidia – high in protein
Azolla – aquatic weed, high in protein
Duckweed - aquatic weed,
Trichanthera – high in protein.
Sargassum Seaweed - protein and carbohydrates in seaweed are not digestible in poultry,
the nutritional value for poultry is as a source of minerals and vitamins. Inclusion rate 5
to 15%.
Silage
Green forages – legumes, glericidia, root tubers, cocoa pods.
Poultry litter. (For Ruminants)

Agro-processed by-products – fish offal,


For poultry, fish silage would be suitable.

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