Exploring the potential feed ingredients which do not compete human consumption and maintain the production efficiency and food quality is a crucial task for animal production to reduce environmental impact and production cost.
Currently ruminant production heavily relies on the conventional crops such as soybeans and maize to sustain high production efficiency.
Agro-industrial by-products which are obtained during the production of food and are normally considered as waste residue, such as pomace and pulp after juice extraction and cake after oil extraction, have potentials to serve as feed ingredients when managed properly.
We evaluate the nutritional value of new alternative feed ingredients which can potentially substitute the conventional feeds by analysing the digestibility, metaborisable energy, and fermentation dynamics using a laboratory-scale equipment to respect animal welfare.
We have tested black berry, damaged crops,,, and it seems there are a lot of natural resources in which we can furtherly provide additional values to those waste products.