Meat-and-bone meal: instructions for use

Meat-and-bone meal is used as a vitamin-mineral supplement when feeding large and small cattle, as well as pigs and poultry. It is a very valuable product containing a lot of protein. The use of meat-and-bone meal allows you to balance the diet of animals and significantly increase their productivity.

Product Description

It is a meat-and-bone meal powder of light or dark brown color with a specific smell. When choosing this product for a shade, it is worth paying special attention. The color should be exactly brown. A yellowish tinge indicates that the product is substandard. This color is attached to the chicken feather. In birds, when yellow fodder is added to the feed, the egg production decreases. In addition, consumption of the pen provokes the development of cannibalism in the hens.

The quality of meat-and-bone meal is divided into three classes, depending on the fat content. The smaller, the better the product. When assessing the quality of flour, you should also pay attention to:

• Smell. It should not be musty or putrid.
• Appearance. Only flour of uniform composition is considered to be of high quality. It should not contain lumps or granules with a diameter of more than 12 mm.

How it is made

In the production of this product, meat is used that is unsuitable for human consumption: carcasses of dead from non-contagious animal diseases, waste from meat processing industry, etc. The manufacturing process consists of the following stages:

• Waste of meat production is boiled and cooled to a temperature of 25 degrees.
• The resulting squash is crushed in special aggregates.
• The powder is sieved through a sieve.
• The resulting flour is sent through magnetic separators to remove metal impurities.
• The product is then treated with antioxidants to prevent fat loss.
• The finished powder is packaged in bags or sacks.

Meat-and-bone meal: instructions for use when feeding chickens

Inclusion of this product in the laying hens diet allows to significantly increase egg production and save a little on feed. Mix the meat-and-bone meal with chicken, either in concentrated fodder or in mash. The optimal dose is 7% of the total amount of cereals.

Feed the bird should only qualitative meat-and-bone meal. For chickens, this product is very useful, because it contains a large amount of protein. Unfortunately, recently, many companies engaged in the manufacture of flour, to reduce its cost, began adding soy. Feeding such a fake does not bring almost no result. Eggplant does not increase, because of the lack of protein, the number of cases of sowing and cannibalism increases. Therefore, do not buy cheap flour from little-known producers.

Too much flour can not be given to a bird. This can cause such an unpleasant disease as gout. Also, chickens, whose diet exceeds the content of this supplement, often develops amyloidosis. This is the violation of protein metabolism, accompanied by the deposition of substances with a certain chemical property in tissues.

Meat-and-bone meal: instructions for use in feeding pigs

In addition, the feeding of meat and bone meal stimulates the animal's weight gain. The pigs are given in the amount of 5-15% of the total mass of feed. A very good addition, it can become for both sows and animals for rearing. It is not recommended to use meat-and-bone meal as an additive for only very small weaned pigs.

After the addition of flour into the feed, it can no longer be heat-treated. Otherwise, most of the protein and vitamins will be lost. This rule should be observed when feeding both pigs and other types of farm animals and poultry.

Use for cattle

Feeding this product to cattle also allows a significant increase in productivity. For cows, you should choose flour made from poultry meat or pork. In a product containing bones and muscle tissue of cattle, there may be an agent of such an unpleasant bovine disease as spongiform encephalopathy.

Since cows - animals are still herbivorous, meat-and-bone flour, they often simply refuse. In this case, the product is mixed with bran or concentrates with a gradual increase in the dose. For a few days the amount of flour consumed by cattle should be brought to 10-100 g per head. MPC give no more than 20 grams per day.

Flour in the diet of other animals

In small quantities, this product, which is a source of protein, vitamins and minerals, can be given to other types of farm animals and poultry: ducks, geese, rabbits, guinea fowl, turkeys, etc. In this case, the proportion of flour from the total amount of feed is usually Not more than 5-10%.

Quite justified will be the use of such a product as meat and bone meal, for dogs (not more than 100 g per day). This allows you to save a little on feeding animals. This product in this case acts as a substitute for meat.

Previously, owners of four-legged friends used flour for feeding quite often. However, recently a lot of modern, balanced protein, vitamin and mineral supplements, intended for these animals, have appeared on sale. Therefore, meat-and-bone meal for dogs at the moment is used quite rarely. Lovers of domestic animals consider it more like a budgetary variant of complementary food.

The composition of the quality product

Real meat-and-bone meal, the use of which is justified when breeding almost all types of farm animals, has a balanced, regulated by certain veterinary norms composition. The protein in it should contain at least 30-50%. The composition of flour includes such substances:

• Muscular and bony tissue. This is the main ingredient of the product.
• Fat. It should not contain too much (no more than 13-20% depending on the variety).
• Ash in the amount of 26-38%.
• Water. It should also not be too much (no more than 7%).

In addition, flour can include waste from the meat processing industry, such as stomachs, thyroid and parathyroid glands, ovaries, spinal cord and brain, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, etc. The quality and composition of meat and bone meal are regulated. GOST 17536-82 . Information on compliance with it must be presented on the package.

Other substances

A small percentage of the content in the flour of metal-magnetic impurities (particles up to 2 mm in size) is allowed. They should not be more than 150-200 g per ton of product. In addition, meat-and-bone meal, the use of which allows you to save on feed, contains substances that stimulate metabolism in animals. First of all, it is adenosine triphosphate and glutamic acid. With a lack of the latter, for example, chickens can develop a growth depression.

Stimulate the development of birds or animals and some other substances contained in flour. These include, for example, carnitine, bile acids, seratonin, thyroxine, etc.

How to store

Meat-and-bone meal, the instruction on which application has been given above - the product containing a plenty of fiber and fat. Therefore, it must be stored correctly. Otherwise, it will at best be useless, at worst - negatively affect the health of animals or birds. A very important condition for preserving the beneficial properties of flour is compliance with the rules for its storage. Bags with this product should be kept in a dry ventilated room. Water or sunlight is not allowed on them.

The air temperature in the household block or in the warehouse should not exceed + 30 degrees. Overheating of the product can not be allowed in any case, otherwise the fat contained in it will begin to decompose with the release of a toxic substance - acrolein aldehyde.

Feed the animal and poultry overdue product, of course, can not. The acceptable storage time for meat and bone meal is indicated on the package. Usually it is not more than one year.

As you can see, meat and bone meal - a product really useful and in animal husbandry is truly irreplaceable. Incorporating it into the diet makes it possible to increase the productivity of cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc., and also to stimulate weight gain and growth. But to achieve good results can, of course, only when choosing a quality product and its correct use.