How to classify the feed? Which categories are they divided into?

Feed is the general name of all animal food raised, and general feed mainly refers to animal food raised in agriculture or animal husbandry. Including soybean, soybean meal, corn, fish meal, amino acid, miscellaneous meal, whey powder, oil, meat and bone meal, grain, feed additives and so on more than ten varieties of feed raw materials. So how to classify the feed? Which categories are they divided into?

1. Roughage

Roughage refers to a kind of feed with more than 18% crude fiber in dry matter, including hay, straw, agricultural and sideline products, dregs and leaves with more than 18% crude fiber in dry matter.

2. Green feed

Green feed refers to a kind of feed with natural moisture content of more than 60%, including forage grasses, leafy vegetables, non-starch root melons and fruits, aquatic plants and so on. The contents of crude protein and crude fiber after drying were not considered.

3. Silage

Silage is silage made of fresh natural plant feed and silage with appropriate amount of bran or other additives, including semi-dry silage with a moisture content of 45% 55%.

4. Energy feed

Energy feed refers to a kind of feed in which the content of crude fiber in dry matter is less than 18% and the content of crude protein is less than 20%. It mainly includes cereal seeds, bran bran, starchy root melons and fruits, oils, grass seed trees and so on.

5. Protein supplements

Protein supplement refers to a kind of feed with crude fiber content of less than 18% and crude protein content of more than 20% in dry matter, mainly including plant protein feed, animal protein feed, single cell protein feed and so on.

6. Mineral feed

Mineral feed includes industrial synthetic or natural single mineral feed, mineral feed mixed with multiple minerals, and mineral additive premix with carrier or diluent.

7. Vitamin feed

Vitamin feed refers to the artificial synthesis or purification of single vitamin or multivitamin, but does not include a natural feed with more vitamins.

8. Additives

Additives refer to all kinds of non-nutritional additive raw materials and their prepared products which are used to strengthen the feeding effect and are beneficial to the production and storage of compound feed. Such as a variety of antibiotics, antioxidants, anti-mildew agents, binders, colorants, flavor enhancers and health care and metabolic regulation drugs and so on.

These are the eight categories of feed, which are divided according to raw materials, and we will buy fake feed in the market. On the other hand, adulterated feed is generally ground finely, the composition can not be seen, and the color is dark or light, often resulting in deliquescence, mildew, moth-eating, lumpy due to high water content, and sometimes mixed with a large amount of sand or a large amount of low-cost feed. Farmers who buy feed should pay attention.

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