GB877691A - Improvements in or relating to animal feeding stuffs - Google Patents

Abstract

A feeding stuff for young calves based on cereal meal, preferably amounting to 40-60%, includes 2-10% sugar, 10-40% of a meal made from dried immature herbage such as grass meal or lucerne meal, 1-10% of a high protein-content material such as fish meal or cotton seed meal, and 5-15% of distillery concentrate which last may be substituted in part by dried brewers yeast, dried skimmed milk or dried whey. The total protein content of the feeding stuff should be at least 15% and the calcium content, expressed as CaO, 1,9-2,6%, and the phosphorous content expressed as P2O5 2,0-2,5%. The feeding stuff may include vitamins, growth factors and trace element salts and be pelletized. A feeding stuff suitable for feeding calves within a few days from birth contains 40-60% cereal meal, 2-6% sugar, 15-30% grass meal, 2-5% fish meal and 5-15% dried distillery concentrate. A follow-on feed formulation containing barley meal, rice bran, bone meal, decorticated cotton seed meal, grass meal, molasses, distillery concentrate, salt, vitamins, growth factors and trace element salts is also disclosed.