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The main advantages of using molasses as food are

- Increases energy density

- Increases appetite

- Reduce dust

- Increased metabolism should reduce the cost of food

- Improving the quality (physical) of the product

- Cover the food ingredients less appetite

- Cheap

- Molasses has been used to raise pigs in our country. Some places used molasses to 60% in gilts and sows, 25-30% in pigs and fattening pigs. As the percentage of molasses in the diet of pigs and fatteners increased, the intake and gain increased but the efficiency of feed conversion decreased due to the increased rate of feed transfer in the gastrointestinal tract. Unlike fattening pigs, piglets do not easily adapt to a high proportion of molasses in the diet. When molasses exceeds 25% it usually has laxative effects.

Often it is given a combination of protein supplements such as saccharomyces, yeasts and fish meal. Molasses can also be used along with kitchen organic by-products boiled for pig feeding.

- Use molasses for poultry

Harland (1995) concluded that up to 10% molasses could be used in the diet of chickens and 20% of laying hens. However, due to the problem of molasses, there are many K should cause laxative. Although most chickens exhibit good nutritional status when fed a balanced diet containing up to 20% molasses, adding 4% to molasses is likely to lead to increased chickens and wet stools. Maximum molasses in chicken diet 0-4 weeks was 1%, while other chickens was 5%.