Fact sheets (Deliverable 4.4 OK-Net EcoFeed Project)

Abstract

This deliverable is part of the Horizon 2020 project – OK-Net EcoFeed. The overall aim of OK-Net EcoFeed is to help farmers, breeders and the organic feed processing industry in achieving the goal of 100% use of or-ganic and regional feed for monogastrics, in particular pigs, broilers, laying hens and parents of broilers and laying hens. The aim of “Work package 4 (WP4)- Evaluation of existing tools and development of new tools” is to collect and prepare end-user materials and develop new tools adapted to the needs of farmers, feed processors and breeders and helping to solve the challenge of organic and regional feed for monogastrics. The specific objectives of WP4 are to collect, evaluate and describe existing tools and end-user material, translate and adapt most promising tools, create fact sheets and videos and develop ration-planning tools for pigs, broilers and laying hens. This deliverable presents the work done in task 4.3 “Creation of fact sheets and videos” by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL). The fact sheets provide a wide range of topics from feeding strategies for layers, broilers and pigs, to processing feed, using byproducts as feed, in-creasing digestability of feed and using alternative sources of protein