Molasses is the syrupy by-product of the production process to extract sugar from sugar beets.The residual liquid that is left over is an excellent source of energy for livestock.Beef cattle drinking molasses from a trough in Queensland, Australia. It is one of the good feed resource which farmers can adopt to improve livestock productivity. Supplementing poor quality hay or pastures with molasses increases digestion of roughages, improve palatability thereby promoting higher feed intake and a rapid energy release (Kemp and Nougher, 1999) (Broderick and Radloff, 2004). Feeding molasses to dairy animals has been reported to increase milk production (Senthilkumar et al., 2016).In addition, a study to demonstrate profitability of enhanced livestock nutrition reported that supplementing crop residues with cotton seedcake, dried grains and molasses resulted to a daily weight gain of 0.67 kg on cattle fattening. The study also reported an increase in income on the sales of live and slaughtered animals due to the increase in weight (Ayoola and Ayoade, 1992)
