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Types of animal feed The purpose of providing animals with animal feed is to ensure that they are getting compensated for the required nutrients that are absent in their natural diet. Animal feed is commonly divided into those that come from traditional sources and those that are a mixture of additives and other raw materials.

• Traditional feed:This is generally used to refer to food scraps as found in every household and the by-products as obtained from industries related to food processing. Some of the common examples of traditional feed are:
  • Peanuts, corn and soy which are by-products of oil crop milling;
  • Slop, a food scrap fed to pigs;
  • Chicken scratch, scrap fed to chicken;
  • Spent grain, a by-product of the brewing industry etc.
• Compound feed:These are compound blends made keeping a specific animal in mind. Thus raw materials and other additives are formulated as per the requirements of specific animals so as to ensure maximum benefit to the targeted animal. Generally the main ingredient of the same are feed grains, such as sorghum, soybeans, oats, barley and corn which are formulated by the feed manufacturers as pellets, crumbles or meal types.