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It has been said over time that feeding alone accounts for close to or a little over 60% of animal production, whether ruminants or non-ruminants The act of making the animals have access to the feed is called  FEEDING. Today, there are many ready made feeds available, some companies are at the top of this ladder, companies like Top Feeds and the rest. Some private feedmills do produce their own feed for commercial Purposes, and reports show that their feeds are quite okay. Today, we will be discussing how to formulate feed for poultry and pigs. To adequately formulate feed for your animals, the following should be put into consideration. - Age of the animal - Nutritional needs of the animal. - Availability of the raw materials - Cost and quality of the raw material. Poultry feed is divided into Chick mash should contain 20-24% crude protein and 2800-2900kcal of energy Starter feed 20-24% crude protein and 2900-3100kcal of energy Growers feed should have Protein content of about 16-17%

                                                     Pig production has come a long way in the world and in the tropics, as the years went by different breeds of pigs have been developed from pre existing ones. Today, there are scores of different breeds of pigs in the world. The business is a very lucrative one that is worth billions of dollars as we speak many are into it on  small, medium and large scales. Pig meat is the most consumed meat in the world as at now. Pig farming is also called HOG farming, according to wikipedia pig farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed principally for food i.e. pork (general name of the meat from domestic pig ), Bacon (salt-cured  pork), Gammon (salt cured meat from the hind leg of a domestic pig). Other types of processed, cured pork are: Proscuitto, sausage etc. The branch of cooking devoted to prepare meat products from pig is called Charcuterie (wikipedia).