The current study presents investigations on research studies on alternative feedstuff and livestock farming globally. An aggregate of 1634 publications were retrieved into a BibTex template for assessment by way of bibliometric assemblage in R studio software. The result obtained from the study included relevant authors in the field, number of citations, affiliations, journals, and important key words associated with the research field. Publications on the use of alternative feedstuff and livestock production had increase scholarly outputs of a yearly growth of 11.49 % during the studied span line. The USA lead in the first position with output of n = 258, and worldwide scientific impact of highest article citations (n = 6265). The result also showed that thedocuments/author (n = 0.273), single-authored documents (n = 156),co-authors/ documents (n = 4.22), authors/document (n = 3.67), and collaboration index (n = 3.96), respectively. Nations in Africa however, had only Egypt in the top 20 countries with high outputs. For multiple country publications (MCPs), the USA, Turkey and Germany have 25 %, 14 %, and 10 %, respectively. Lastly, the findings indicated vividly that the USA (n = 258), Turkey (n = 152) and Brazil (n = 102) are taking the lead (in terms of total article publications) in supplementing and/or substituting conventional feedstuffs with alternative feedstuffs for improving livestock farming.