Description
They are obtained in the malting process. The pellet or barley root or malt sprout, as a residue after the germination of the grain barley (Hordeum vulgare) and malt extraction.
These by-products have very nutritional characteristics. interesting, in addition to its high palatability, both for cows dairy from good to high production as well as for fattening, where aims to achieve high weight gains. Furthermore, they are considered, both, as true “natural balanced” for early weaning, early weaning or rearing calves artificial; having to add, only, a 20 to 30% grain of corn or similar (whole or ground) and a complex of vitamin-mineral.
Application
Fundamentally for dairy farms. It is also used in pigs and chickens.
Specifications
Protein: 19%
Humidity: 11%
Crude fiber: 14%
NDF: 38%
FDA: 16%
Fat Matter: 1.8%
Metabolizable Energy: 2.6 Mcal/kg
Calcium: 0.47%
Phosphorus: 0.60%
Ashes: 8%
Starch: 10%