Meat and bone meal – useful mineral additive which is included in a food allowance of animals for strengthening of their immunity. Such product is made of waste of the meat and fish industry. Meat and bones are carefully crushed and dried up therefore the component reminding usual flour on the consistence turns out.
Process of production of bone meal
Pay attention that processing of ingredients for its production can be followed by quite specific smell therefore whenever possible it is better to carry out it in nature, for example, at the dacha.
Make usual fire. As soon as the first layer of firewood burns through, lay out on coal several types of bones – from cattle, birds and fish. From above lay out the second layer of wood and wait for full burn-out of a fire. If in the course of such processing of a bone on steel soft, repeat the procedure. For production of bone meal to you absolutely soft components.
As soon as there is the necessary effect, accurately lay out bones on pure fabric or an oilcloth. Process of crushing can be carried out any improvised subject – a rolling pin, the round handle from a shovel or a bottle. If the minimum portions of bone meal, for example, are necessary for you for feeding of a pet, then it is possible to crush bones by means of the ordinary blender. For production of bone meal in large numbers not to do without the special equipment. The crusher can be made most if you have special skills. However most often bones crush by means of any devices for grain processing. Meat and bone meal can be done not only of bones. If you add meat or skorlupk from eggs to a standard set of ingredients, then the usefulness of a product substantially will increase. In house conditions it is difficult to make bone meal. It is possible to try to cook long bones, but it will be possible to achieve the necessary softness hardly at the same time. In this case it is important to pick up types of ingredients correctly. For example, it is easy to weld chicken necks or fish waste to the necessary consistence, and then to process the blender. The bone of the large and small cattle needs to subject to more rigid processing on a fire or in the furnace.
Advantage of bone meal
Bone meal contains record amount of phosphorus and calcium. For this reason it is used not only as useful additive to a forage, but also applied as remedy to the weakened or sick animals. Meat and bone meal quite often meets as a part of compound feeds and dry feeds for different types of animals. Its regular use in food promotes strengthening of immunity, a bone skeleton and physical endurance. This ingredient is mixed, as a rule, with the main food to an animal. Enough often such flour is used even in poultry farming.