Why feed additives matter for livestock

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My name is Eric Senteu a resident of Kiserian, Kajiado County. I am a regular reader of your column and I like how you simplify animal health information. I am a dairy farmer who is keen on cutting the cost of production especially the cost of feeds. I recently attended the World Food Day in Oloitoktok and got an opportunity to be trained by some animal feeds manufacturers that were selling what they called livestock feed additives. They had several classes of them and they said that these can help reduce production cost and increase my profits.

Is this true? Can I get these additives from my normal agrovets and how exactly do they work? Thanks so much