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Raisers have been using pellets for decades to feed their cattle.
Compared with other kinds of feed-stuff, a good quality pellet actually
offers a lot of benefits to the raisers such as decreased eating periods,
improved palatability, less segregation in the feed and reduced waste.
First of all, pelleted feeds take up significantly less storage space,
particularly in the case of pelleted hay products. A ton of baled hay can
take up 200 to 330 cubic feet of storage space in a barn; a ton of hay
pellets or cubes requires only 60 to 70 cubic feet.
Secondly, compared to other types of feed, they are very low in dust.
Compete pelleted feeds can include not only grains, but also vitamins
and other supplements. Manufacturers have created many types of
pelleted mixes to suit all sorts of cattle, no matter their activities. Almost
no commercial feed ration is left untouched by the pelleting process - sift
through a prepared sweet feed with your fingers, and youll discover a
smattering of pellets mixed in with the oats and corn and other grains.
That pellet generally contains a vitamin/mineral supplement for the
ration, bound up with a fibre source such as dehydrated alfalfa.
Moreover, cattle consume feed pellets more readily and rapidly when
compared to other forms of cattle food. Furthermore, the pellets produce
less waste as mentioned above making it a very economical method to
feed dairy animals as well. This is especially important for small raisers for
whom every penny counts. Similarly, the waste reduction also helps raisers
a lot during the droughts because they will have to spend less amount of
money feeding cattle. Pellets also improve the palatability of the cattle feed.
Finally, it is always good to feed pelleted concentrates to the cattle.
There is nothing wrong in doing so; rather it is a beneficial and fruitful
method of feeding cattle.
With the increasing awareness among people towards safety and quality
of beef choosing high quality and nutritionally well-balanced feed is
essential in order to promote cattle feeding standards.
Cattle feed pellets being made from corn, wheat bran, rice, sorghum, and
beans, appears to be the obvious choice, as it decreases feed wastage, has
high bulk density and better material handling characteristics. Pelleted cattle
feed prevents selective feeding on preferable ingredients in a formulation.
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Formula 1 - dairy cattle feed
Ingredients
Ripe-bean cake
40
Wheat bran
15
Corn
22
Oyster meal
2.0
Sorghum
20
Salt
1.0
Ripe-bean cake
19
Wheat bran
29
Corn
48
Oyster meal
2.5
Salt
15
Ingredients
Bran
17
4.0
Corn
10
Dry hay
9.0
Soybean curb
residue
15
Sorghum
Ingredients Dosage/g
Ingredients
Bean cake
4.5
Corn silage
Oyster extract
1.5
32
-
Dosage/g
Ingredients
Dosage/g
Corn
49.5
Zinc oxide
0.3
Wheat bran
32.9
Cobaltous sulfate
0.043
Bean cake
16.5
Sodium selenite
0.044
1.1
Potassium iodide
0.017
Calcium
hydrophosphate
Tips: supply 9kg concentrated feed one day; the expected daily
milk yield is 18.12kg and the feed/milk ratio is 0.5:1.
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Since all ingredients have been moulded together, cattle must eat a balanced
formulation, minimising waste and improving feed conversion.
Capitalising on the growth trend in the global cattle feed pellet
market, some leading companies are rushing into the development and
manufacturing of feed pellets. The increasing demand for cattle feed pellets
is prompting the global players to turn their attention to feed pellet products
in order to meet growing needs.
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