Meat-and-bone meal is used asvitamin and mineral supplement when feeding large and small cattle, as well as pigs and poultry. It is a very valuable product containing a lot of protein. The use of meat and bone meal makes it possible to balance the ration of animals and significantly increase their productivity.
It is a meat and bone meal powderlight or dark brown with a specific smell. When choosing this product for a shade, it is worth paying special attention. The color should be exactly brown. A yellowish tinge indicates that the product is substandard. This color is attached to the chicken feather. In birds, when yellow fodder is added to the feed, the egg production decreases. In addition, consumption of the pen provokes the development of cannibalism in the hens.
The quality of meat-and-bone meal is divided into three classes, depending on the fat content. The smaller, the better the product. When assessing the quality of flour should also pay attention to:
При производстве этого продукта используется meat, unfit for human consumption: carcasses of dead from non-contagious animal diseases, waste of meat processing industry, etc. The manufacturing process consists of the following stages:
Inclusion of this product in the laying dietallows to significantly increase egg production and save a little on feed. Mix the meat-and-bone flour with chicken, both in concentrated fodder and in the mash. The optimal dose is 7% of the total amount of cereals.
Feed the bird should only qualitativemeat and bone meal. For chickens, this product is very useful, because it contains a large amount of protein. Unfortunately, recently many companies engaged in making flour began to add soybeans to its cheaper price. Feeding such a fake does not bring almost no result. Eggplant does not increase, because of the lack of protein in birds, the number of cases of cannibalism and cannibalism increases. Therefore, do not buy cheap flour from little-known producers.
Too much flour can not be given to a bird.This can cause such an unpleasant disease as gout. Also, chickens, in whose diet the content of this supplement is exceeded, amyloidosis often develops. This is called the violation of protein metabolism, accompanied by deposition in tissues of substances with a certain chemical property.
Among other things, feeding the meat-and-boneflour stimulates the animal's weight gain. The pigs are given in the amount of 5-15% of the total mass of feed. A very good addition, it can be for sows, and for animals to grow. It is not recommended to use meat-and-bone meal as an additive for only very small weaned pigs.
After adding flour to the food, carry it outheat treatment is no longer possible. Otherwise, most of the protein and vitamins will be lost. This rule should be observed when feeding both pigs and other types of farm animals and poultry.
Feeding this product to a large hornedThe livestock also makes it possible to significantly increase productivity. For cows, you should choose flour made from poultry meat or pork. In a product containing bones and muscle tissue of cattle, there may be an agent of such an unpleasant bovine disease as spongiform encephalopathy.
Since cows - animals are still herbivores,they often simply refuse meat-and-bone flour. In this case, the product is mixed with bran or concentrates with a gradual increase in the dose. For several days the amount of flour consumed by cattle should be brought to 10-100 g per head. MPC give no more than 20 grams per day.
In small quantities, this product beinga source of protein, vitamins and minerals can be given to other types of farm animals and poultry: ducks, geese, rabbits, guinea fowl, turkeys, etc. In this case, the proportion of flour from the total amount of feed is usually not more than 5-10%.
It will be justified to use suchproduct, like meat and bone meal, for dogs (not more than 100 g per day). This allows you to save a little on feeding animals. This product in this case acts as a substitute for meat.
Previously, owners of four-legged friends usedflour for fertilizing quite often. However, recently a lot of modern, balanced protein, vitamin and mineral supplements, intended for these animals, have appeared on sale. Therefore, meat-and-bone meal for dogs is currently used quite rarely. Lovers of domestic animals consider it more like a budgetary variant of complementary foods.
True meat-and-bone meal, the use of whichis justified when breeding almost all types of farm animals, has a balanced, regulated by certain veterinary norms composition. The protein in it should contain at least 30-50%. The composition of flour includes such substances:
In addition, flour may includewaste meat processing industry, like stomachs, thyroid and parathyroid glands, ovaries, spinal cord and brain, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, etc. The quality and composition of meat and bone meal are regulated GOST 17536-82. Information on compliance with it must be presented on the package.
A small percentage of flour is allowedmetallomagnetic impurities (particles up to 2 mm in size). They should be no more than 150-200 g per ton of product. In addition, meat-and-bone meal, the use of which allows you to save on feed, contains substances that stimulate metabolism in animals. First of all, it is adenosine triphosphate and glutamic acid. With a lack of the latter, for example, chickens can develop a growth depression.
Stimulate the development of birds or animals and some other substances contained in flour. These include, for example, carnitine, bile acids, seratonin, thyroxine, etc.
Meat-and-bone meal, instructions, for usewhich was given above - a product containing a large amount of protein and fat. Therefore, you need to store it correctly. Otherwise, it at best will be useless, at worst - negatively affect the health of animals or birds. A very important condition for preserving the beneficial properties of flour is compliance with the rules for its storage. Keep bags with this product in a dry, ventilated area. Water or sunlight is not allowed on them.
Air temperature in the household block or in the warehouse is notshould exceed +30 degrees. Overheating of the product can not be allowed in any case, otherwise the fat contained in it will begin to decompose with the release of a toxic substance - acrolein aldehyde.
Feed the animals and poultry overdue product, of course, not. The acceptable storage time for meat and bone meal is indicated on the package. Usually it is not more than one year.
As you can see, meat and bone meal is a productreally useful and in livestock is truly irreplaceable. Incorporating it into the diet makes it possible to increase the productivity of cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc., and also to stimulate weight gain and growth. But to achieve good results can, of course, only when choosing a quality product and its correct use.
