Utilizing Our Stored Maize.

In livestock farming, one major thing you do not joke with is "feed" for your livestock because that is the life wire of that venture. The quality of feed you give to your livestock also tell on them, if you feed them well, you will see the result and if you do otherwise, you will equally get the result.

Many livestock farmers have ventured into it without carefully counting the cost. It can really be expensive feeding these animals. Many have given up along the way because they couldn't keep up with the demands of provision for these animals.

For this reason some smart farmers decided to add crop farming to what they do, with this, they can plant what their animal would need for a particular period, they harvest it and use it for feed formulation. It's not quite easy especially for those who are not bouyant but it quite profitable on the long run to produce your feed.

What you see here are the maize we planted sometimes last year, which we harvested and stored. It actually has to be very dried for it to last long for what you intend to use it for. We wanted to sell it at first but when we realized it's one of the major component of the feed we formulated for the pigs, we decided to keep it and utilise it.

The prices of these things varies from season to season, you might find out that maize is cheap in this season and then the other season the price of that same maize will almost pierce your pocket...lols. Farmer will understand what I'm saying.

One good thing about Maize is that even the husk can be milled and added to the the feed formulation for animal, at least I know that of the feed for pigs. Come to think of it, there is this particular item we add sometime for our pig feed, it's called "Corn Bran", it's not pure corn, it seem to me that it's the unwanted part of the maize that make up this particular substance, which include the husk...

This makes us a producer ourselves. We can come up with something more quality because we can control the amount of husk that would be added to the pure maize to be blended. Anyway this is not my emphasis today. What I'm trying to say is that a farmer who strives to produce his or her livestock feed would eventually become very profitable on the long run.

This was where we came to mill some of the maize, a place we just discovered. These guys are specialists and they mill in tons, they have the equipment for the job. I'm not sure it took up to 10 mins to mill what we took there. The machines are of industrial standard unlike our local mill where I might have to wait for about 30 mins to get it done and still pay through my nose.

I pay nothing less than 33 steems when I use our local Mills but here we spent about 12 steem, not even sure it was up to. This discovery for us was an eye opener but then the location is a bit far from the farm and if we must use that place going forward, it would mean that we already have plans to mills in large quantity just to compensate for the distance.

We had our maize milled and of course you know what it's used for already. We added it to the list of things we had procured for the feed formulation. You can tell that the pigs loved the output from the way they responded to the feed after few days of giving them. They looked healthier, stronger and bigger.
Let me wrap it up here friends, thank for staying with me.

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@lhorgic❤️