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Dr. Nemo,lets say i find the fish meal in Cebu,if I increase the protein part by 1 kg. every other month this should be okay,I am wondering if 1 can give the hogs too much protein??
Good Day Doc.                                  mikey

all ingredients must be cooked first. This is to help in the proper digestion of the food.

There are ingredients than can be fed to hogs,have found its the % and DM content,never seems to be listed or added.is this a trade secret or something??

Urea, might be a better idea,already in dm form,my understanding use no more than 10% in total.
Later: mikey

Slyfox,already use urea for our goats,no more than 10% but we mix it in their drinking water.Right now we are too spread out,too many different animals going on a once.The hogs will have to wait for some time yet,the goats are getting a upgraded barn,That story I was reading about using sweetpotato,already in use through out Asia including the Philippines,did not say where in the Philippines it is used as hog chow,somewhere there.Have been growing tangtong since 2005 and feed it to the breeding sows,raw,chopped up,we are lucky we grow our own corn,the plan is to take the tangtong and turn it into silage,cook and dry the corn meal will now become dm,add the urea,calicum,salt and molasses,as the hogs grown cut back on the tangtong and urea and add more corn and ricebran.The story did say that you can cook it if you wanted too,silage just seems easier to manage,cooking is a everyday job.The major problem I see in homemade chow is location,every location would have different feedstufs that one can use,knowing which ones one can use is the problem
From everything I have been reading,not impossible to mix up your feeds,just needs some fine tuning.
This plant sounds interesting I have been reading about Malunggay (mothers best friend),will increase milk production,and also contains alot of vitamins,grows all over our place,free for us to harvest the leaves and dry in to dm.
Later:
mikey Independant Producer Region 7

Update experiment (07/10) results on homemade feeds:
corn bran
root crops ,tara roots and leaves,sweet potato and leaves
kangkong vine
papayas,bananas,coconuts
root crops,kangkong.papayas,bananas are cooked to a mash,when cooled down add the corn bran,shredded coconut and salt and molasses.
The formulation is now fed to only breeding sows,all healthy no signs of scours,maybe important to add livestock lime when sows pregnant.
Note: This formulation has not worked for weaned hogs(all died in the experiment so far) scours was the main problem,it is possible the feed change was too fast,will try it again later.
So far this shows some promise in making ones own feeds,more time consuming to make, but if one can grow their own feeds on their land it is possible to lower production costs:
Good Farming To All:
mikey Independant Producer Region 7

Hey slyfox what you mean good luck hehehhe? I know you have the forumla why dont you share some of your trade secrets with us?

Feeding Food Wastes to Livestock1
By Robert Myer and Holly Johnson2- Many food wastes have a high nutritional value, and recycling them for animal feed can be a viable waste disposal option.

What are Food Wastes?

The term "food waste" used in this fact sheet is applied to wasted food from the food service industry (i.e. restaurants) and grocery stores. These wastes include plate waste (scrapings), food leftovers, kitchen wastes, spoiled food, expired food, mislabeled food, etc. Other terms to describe these wastes include food residuals, plate waste and kitchen scraps. Two older terms, "garbage" and "swill," are still used, but the livestock and waste management industries prefer not to use these older terms.
Feeding Food Wastes to Livestock

Many kinds of food waste can be fed directly to livestock with minimal processing. Food waste that does not contain meat or meat by-products and has not been in contact with meat or meat by-products is exempt from federal and Florida regulations and can be fed to cattle and swine with no processing.

Food wastes that include meat or meat by-products or that have been in contact with meat or meat by-products can be fed to swine. Individuals who plan to feed swine this type of food waste must be licensed as food waste feeders (garbage feeders) by the state of Florida3. The state has adopted regulations set forth in the Federal 1980 Swine Health Protection Act.4 Under these regulations, food wastes with meat or meat by-products or that have been in contact with meat or meat by-products must be cooked at 212°F (100°C) (boiled) for at least 30 minutes before being used as swine feed. There over 100 licensed swine food waste feeders in Florida. Licenses must be renewed annually. The state of Florida has inspectors who will periodically visit swine food waste feeders to ensure that cooking regulations are being followed.

Cattle can be fed food wastes containing meat or meat by-products or that have been in contact with meat or meat by-products as long as these wastes were from food intended for human consumption. In January of 2004, however, the Federal government proposed four rule changes to restrict feeding of food waste containing meat to cattle. This proposal was the result of the first confirmed case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE; "mad cow disease") in cattle in the United States. One of these rules states that plate waste cannot be fed to ruminant animals. The reason for this proposed ban is that it is hard to distinguish protein of ruminant origin that may be in plate waste/food waste from protein of ruminant origin in banned rendered products. (Since 1997 it has been illegal in the USA to feed various rendered feed products such as meat and bone meal of ruminant origin to cattle and sheep and other ruminant animals. This ban was put in place in response to the BSE outbreak in Europe). As of 2007, however, the proposed rule changes have not been implemented. Therefore, it is still legal to feed food wastes that contain meat or that have been in contact with meat to cattle. Be aware that this can change in the future.

Footnotes

   1. This document is Fact sheet AS116, one of a series of the Animal Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Services, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Please visit the EDIS web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu . This document was revised on July 2004, and again on April 2007.
   2. R.O. Myer, Professor of Animal Science, North Florida Research and Education Center, Marianna, Florida; and Holly Johnson, former Graduate Assistant, Center for Biomass Programs, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611.
   3. Florida Division of Animal Industry Rules, Chapter 5C-11 (5C-11.015; Feeding Garbage; Application for Permit Fees; form DACS-09015).
   4. Florida Division of animal Industry Rules, Chapter 5C-11 (5C-11.017, Feeding Garbage; Procedures, Equipment, Records, Quarantine, and Pre-treating Requirements).