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Top 10 Ingredients Used in Livestock Feed

Written by Tayo Solagbade

Topics: Entrepreneurship, Farm Biz

This is my latest guest post published last week at Africabusinesscommunities.com. Read here

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Posted on 11 September 2012

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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. Visit Tayo's Flagship Performance Improvement website to download over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity. Join Tayo's international community of fans on his Flagship MS Excel Heaven Facebook page (click here). You can also connect with him via Twitter (@tksola).


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2 Comments For This Post I'd Love to Hear Yours!

  1. Karla Rainey says:
    September 26, 2012 at 1:10 am

    The blog doesn't necessarily mean ranking of ingredients by frequency of use but instead lists it in such a way that these ingredients are used simultaneously and in combination to form a complete meal. The top percentage of the mix is still corn.

    • Tayo Solagbade says:
      September 26, 2012 at 1:58 am

      Hi Karla,

      I see the point you're making :-)

      However you'll notice that at the start of the post I indicated that the items were the "most frequently used".

      Take energy sources for instance. Out here "Corn" is the most frequently used of the different energy contributing feed ingredients. And it often makes up the bulk of most animal feeds compounded by the farmers.

      The listing I put up was NOT meant to rank the 10 ingredients relative to one another in terms of their frequency of use.

      Rather, I looked at the "three key groups" of feed ingredients used for feed formulation, and chose the most frequently used individual ingredients from each group to feature in the top 10 list – but in a way that (as you correctly noted), a complete meal could still be prepared.

      The "sample feed formula" – as I noted – at the end of the post, was mainly an "illustration" for the benefit of readers (e.g. aspiring farm owners) who may not be familiar with how the 10 ingredients discussed come together to make a balanced ration.

      Hope I managed to make some sense with the above…think even I got lost at some point…lol

      Thanks again for sharing Karla :-)

      PS: (1). By way of interest what would be an example of a typical ration formula for poultry layers at your end?

      (2). I was excited to see that you deal with Rabbits as well. It so happens that my next blog post is on Rabbits as inexpensive high protein Biological Refrigerators…and why Africans need to rear them (i.e. micro livestock) MORE than large livestock, if we really want to boost protein consumption per capita to WHO standards. I might be touching base with you on your views on optimal feeding approach for rabbits. I have some slightly unconventional ideas from stuff I did while rearing them years back, but am looking to find out what more I can learn. Will let you know when it's up…if you're interested!

      (3). Love your website – the home page does a good job of stating what you offer etc!

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