Saving on feed costs: Part 2. Improve feeding management

Feeding management is a delicate zone for saving feed costs. The extra labour involved, the risk of reducing performance beyond a non-acceptable level, and the sophistication in labour demanded might not make up for the reduction in cost due to lower feed use. Still, when thinking things through properly, the following suggestions could be viable. By Dr Ioannis Mavromichalis, Ariston Nutrition SL, Nutrition & Consultancy In the first instalment of this series, we discussed how to reduce f