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An increasing number of farmers, to guarantee a better quality of their products, uses self-production of feed, choosing quality raw materials or sometimes growing and self-producing and processing themselves into flour, broken grains, mashes, etc.
Depending on the nutritional requirements of the animals, of their growth and of their use in the farm, there are different diets which include, among other things, cereals in different forms depending on the necessity.
Here we provide a general framework on the use of some grains useful in breeding, to be used in combination with other foods for a complete and balanced nutrition.
HORSES |
CATTLE |
SWINE |
FOWL |
SHEEPS |
|
CORN | coarse flour | coarse grain for calves and meat bulls | ————– |
whole for hens; groats for chicks |
————– |
WHEAT | bran | minced for beef cattle; roughage for dairy cows, bulls and bullocks and beef cattle |
minced also in addition to whey; bran for lactones and weaners |
minced for chicks and hens; bran | ————– |
OAT | groats | ————– | ————– | ————– | flour for lambs from the third week of life |
RYE | ————– | groats | ————– | groats for chickens | flour for lambs from the third week of life |
BARLEY | coarse grain | grind or mill for dairy cows and beef cattle | coarse flour | ————– | flour for lambs from the third week of life |
BREAD | ————– | ————– | ————– | ground hard bread | ————– |
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