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This is the 3rd installment of my Feeding Pigs Cheaply (FPC)™ series, that I’m sending out via email to clients who signed up.
In this edition, I highlight traditional and non traditional materials used to feed pigs kept in confinement – as happens in intensive commercial rearing settings.
This includes a grain based ration formula recommended by a practising Pig Farm Consultant as being suitable for feeding all classes of pigs. But it also discusses alternatives to grain based feeding, which – if done right – offer potentially superior results.

An alternative to grain based feeding of animals is also featured as being viable for adoption to improve pig performance – if done right.
Also included is an abstract, plus download URL to the PDF for a study that concludes the meal made from a certain fruit nut “can be included in the diets of weaner pigs to replace soyabean meal up to 10% level with little or no deleterious effect on rate of gain.”
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Get Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and 4 in the FULL series, with MP3 Audio for N5k: Click here
Read about Parts 1 and 2 published previously:
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Posted on 18 October 2017
Tags: Fact Sheet 3 of 4, Feeding Pigs Cheaply (FPC)™, Tested Low Cost Alternative Feeding Ideas
About the Author
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organisations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™, the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook, and developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator - as well as the increasingly popular Monthly Poultry Farm Manager app.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, writes and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, in the French Speaking Benin Republic on the first lap of his slow travels across the West African region. His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
When he's not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog - on which he also publishes previews of paid issues of The Farm CEO™ Newspaper (www.thefarmceo.net), in addition to his FREE Weekly Public Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter - which he uses to promote Burt Dubin's Public Speaking Mentoring service to experts across the African continent.
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