alpacas: Re: [AlpacaTalk] Feed

Heather you wrote:
"I have to tell you that I think it's
those people who dreamt up the
idea of feeding leftover garbage from
other processes as animal feed
are overthinking. Do you have any
idea how hard it is to make that
stuff a balanced feed? Please read
the paper at the Alpaca Research
Foundation website, if you haven't
already."

Well You know what they say... one man's trash
is another man's treasure!

Since Dr. Ihrlbeck does not address
Distiller's Grains or Wheat Middlings in the Alpaca Research Foundation
article, referring folks there is not appropriate to your argument,
however it is an excellent article, and a great one to read.

For those who are still interested here is some info and some sites for
additional information.

First is this excellent site that
provides easy to understand definitions of those abbreviations used
in all livestock feed nutritional analysis:
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/dairy/facts/08-039.htm
Here are two definitions they provide:

Distillers' grains - the residual grains or byproduct
that contain the nutrients remaining after the starch from corn has been
fermented to alcohol. The concentration of these residual nutrients is
approximately 3x that found in the original corn.
Middlings - a byproduct of milling, it
consists of granular particles containing differing proportions of the
grain, endosperm, bran and gluten.

Here’s another site
that provides descriptors of many types of feed ingredients:
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ansci/livestoc/as1182-2.htm
Excellent Descriptor of different Yeast which is a commonly used
ingredient in feeds and probiotics
http://www.diamondv.com/articles/booklet/booklet.html

and some articles/papers:

Distillers Grains for Dairy Cattle
http://agbiopubs.sdstate.edu/articles/ExEx4022.pdf

Ohio State
University Factsheet on Distillers Grains   http://ohioline.osu.edu/as-fact/distillers.html

Purdue University: Extensive site containing fact
sheets on ethanol production and distillers grains (multiple livestock
species)
www.ces.purdue.edu/bioenergy/

University
of Minnesota: Extensive site on ethanol production and distillers grains
including feeding guidelines (multiple livestock species)
www.ddgs.umn.edu/info-dairy.htm

Illinois
Integrated Livestock Focus Team: Web site with information on ethanol
production and distillers grains (multiple livestock species)
http://ilift.traill.uiuc.edu/distillers/

Distillers
Grains Technology Council: Site with recent information on nutrient
composition of distillers grains and nutrient value (multiple livestock
species)
http://www.distillersgrains.org/

http://beef.osu.edu/library/wheatmid.html

Kansas State
Descriptor of Wheat Midds and advantages:
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/lvstk2/mf2353.pdf

Hope this is
helpful

Laurel
Bluebird Hills Farm
www.bluebirdhills.com
937-206-3936

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