Planting from vegetative material - cgiar

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How can farmers use forages to make their
animals grow better?
Some simple feeding practices can improve animal
production:
1. Ensure that animals have constant access to feed.
2. Provide good quality feed.
3. Ensure that animals can select what they eat.
4. Provide protein supplements.
5. Provide better dry season feed.
6. Give the best feed to the most productive animals.
1. Ensure that animals have constant access to feed
Ruminants cannot eat continuously but need times to
"ruminate" (regurgitate some of the feed, chew it some
more and swallow it again to assist breakdown of the
feed). Just because an animal has stopped eating, it does
not mean that it has had enough to eat. Up to 50% of
feeding time can be taken up with ruminating.