Forum: What are the best alternative ingredients to reduce feed costs?
Published:April 21, 2011
By:Joaquin Armando Paulino
At this time, the full fat soybean meal, DDGS, Sorghum, Broken Rice and phytase are excellent choices.The use of cheap ingredients and byproducts in animal feed formulation is a need due to high cost of ingredients in the international market.
Some Ingredient can reduce feed cost like corn DDGS , Cassava meal, Copra Meal and Palm Kernel Meal especially in South East Asia, But we have to concern with ANF and some NSP content in the Ingredient. So the best way if we also use some Feed Enzyme like Phytase and NSP Enzyme (Beta mannanase, Xilanase and Glucanase etc)
Can you pls put your idea that whether, the same type of raw material can be used for formulation of Aqua feeds (Fish & Shrimp)! since they are applying extruded method. If you have any cheap formula for the aqua feed formulation, will you pls give the detailed ingredient formula.
I am very interested in this topic. A few years ago and until now we are still trying to find alternative feed ingredients, there is a good one maggot is produced by bioconversion of palm kernel meal. Maggot good for freshwater fish such as catfish, tilapia, Channa micropeltes, etc. but I have not tried it for marine fish.
I use a maggot of black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illuscens), not the maggot of Musca domestica or Calliphora sp.
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Ediwaman
Jambi Freshwater Aquaculture Development Centre
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