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cacs

A friend of mine has started a brewery and has offered me the leftovers waste or waste product from the brewery. I am delighted to get it. It is a mixture of hops and barely.is it ok to feed to cattle or calves. For so should I mix it with some thing for palatability .

Miname

cathal irwin wrote: »

A friend of mine has started a brewery and has offered me the leftovers waste or waste product from the brewery. I am delighted to get it. It is a mixture of hops and barely.is it ok to feed to cattle or calves. For so should I mix it with some thing for palatability .

Great stuff that's really high in protein. Don't over feed it as it can make cows hooves soft apparently. I think it's somewhere around 24% protein.

cacs

Miname wrote: »

Great stuff that's really high in protein. Don't over feed it as it can make cows hooves soft apparently. I think it's somewhere around 24% protein.

That's great thanks I think I need to feed some kind of citrus with to avoid acid build up

MFdaveIreland

Check cipper levels of the stuff i know someone else doing the same thing and very high copper levels.in the feed

cacs

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

Check cipper levels of the stuff i know someone else doing the same thing and very high copper levels.in the feed

Ok thanks will do

White Clover

Maybe get a sample analysed? Couldn't cost alot I'd say

cacs

White Clover wrote: »

Maybe get a sample analysed? Couldn't cost alot I'd say

I was thinking that might get it checked with guys who analysed the silage

liam7831

Lots of the big breweries sell it, fairly popular tac

cacs

liam7831 wrote: »

Lots of the big breweries sell it, fairly popular tac

Ok I would say it is

Bass Reeves

Are you getting much of it. You can clamp it during the summer but you will need a dry energy rich grain to help preserrve it. Should not be too expensive to get it checked it is the same test as silage. In general brewers grsins are about 30%dm i think and about 25-30 protein on a dm bases. Should be no issue with palatibility no good as a sumer feed as too high in protein unless you decide to feed a few indoors.
Wish i had access to a fewbton of it.

bogman_bass

It's a small Brewer so you won't have enough to clamp as you'll be collecting it weekly. Have you the means to feed it over the summer?

liam7831

It's a bad idea to keep over the summer, goes mouldy lots of waste as you would not be using enough of it