Protein meat and bone meal tankage - a dry product which contains a lot of protein and mineral connections. Its application as additive in a forage promotes acceleration of growth of animals, strengthening of the musculoskeletal device.
What is protein meat and bone meal tankage
Protein meat and bone meal tankage - powder of light brown or dark brown color. The product has specific and not for all a pleasant odor. It is used as a fodder additive at cultivation of cattle, small cattle and a bird. Its application allows to balance a diet of animals and to increase efficiency of cultivation.
In a product there are a lot of vitamins, mineral connections. Protein meat and bone meal tankage is rich with such minerals as:
- phosphorus;
- calcium;
- potassium;
In a product there is a lot of protein consisting of essential amino acids. Flour contains also fat. The crushed product is divided into 3 classes depending on content of fat in it. The flour fat content, the higher it quality is less. The product with small concentration of fat contains more protein, vitamins and is stored much better. Fat flour has property to rancidify quickly.
Upon purchase it is worth paying attention to other signs also. Color of good flour homogeneous and rather dark. In a powder product there shouldn't be large inclusions. Yellow color demonstrates poor quality of flour and high content in it the crushed feathers. The smell has to be specific, but not putrefactive and not musty.
In good flour there are ingredients at the following ratios:
- protein (30-50%);
- fat (13-20% depending on a grade);
- ashes (26-28%);
- water (no more than 7%).
The quality of a product is regulated by GOST 17536-82. All information on composition of flour has to be provided on packing.
As produce protein meat and bone meal tankage
Protein meat and bone meal tankage is produced from waste of meat-processing production. For its production it is possible to use the meat remains which don't suit for consumption, carcass of the fallen animals, an interior large and small cattle, bone waste. If for production of flour use meat and bones of the fallen animals, previously surely investigate raw materials. When hulk is infected, it is utilized. It is impossible to use in food such product even after deep processing.
The technology of processing of raw materials is rather difficult and consists of the following stages:
- waste products meat, boils an entrails in big coppers and cools up to 25 °C;
- the shkvara is split up small and dried up;
- powder is sifted through a sieve;
- flour is banished through magnetic separators to find and extract metal impurity;
- flour is processed antioxidants;
- the ready-made product is packed on bags or packages.
Process of production demands use of the expensive equipment and the big industrial areas. An exit of a ready-made product - 25-30% depending on a type of raw materials. For this reason protein meat and bone meal tankage - not a cheap product.
Flour can contain impurity, but them has to be not Bol 150-200 гр on product ton. Excess of this indicator indicates poor quality of products. Modern producers produce flour with various additives increasing its nutritional value.
Many producers sort raw materials before processing. It allows them to receive separately fodder and technical products with different cost. If in raw materials the entrails of animals prevails, flour turns out excessively fat. A bone flour contains more mineral connections. It is applied as a fodder additive if it is necessary to strengthen the musculoskeletal device of animals.
Whether it is possible to prepare flour in house conditions
It is difficult to prepare protein meat and bone meal tankage independently without use of the special equipment, but it is possible. Previously raw materials need to be divided into meat and bone. Meat needs to be processed separately from bones.
Bones should be crushed, laid out in the metal gauze and to lower in a fire. After combustion they gain fragility and they can be crushed easily. It is possible to inwrap them in a piece of fabric and to break the hammer.
Meat needs to be boiled down in a copper, to crush, dry up and subject to repeated crushing. Further it is possible to connect a meat and bone flour and to sift mix for office of large particles. Such product prepared in house conditions can be used only as fertilizer for plants or for the technical purposes
Use of flour
The main use of protein meat and bone meal tankage - nutritional supplement to sterns. It increases nutritional value of fodder mixes, promotes their economy. The animals and birds receiving such additive grow quicker, are ill less often. The product contributes to normalization of a metabolism in an organism of hens, small and cattle. Veterinarians especially recommend to give flour to animals in the period of a lactation, after the postponed diseases.
Pigs flour are given in number of 7-10% of the total amount of forages. Animals in this case well increase weight. Flour is recommended for feeding of the sows and little piglets who are slowly gaining weight.
For feeding of cows it is recommended to use flour which was produced from meat and bones of pigs, birds. At inclusion in a diet of the product containing meat and bones of cattle at them such unpleasant disease as spongy encephalopathy can develop. Cows are herbivores and many refuse additive. Farmers mix flour with a habitual forage. Standard daily rate of flour for a full-grown specimen - no more than 20 гр.
Protein meat and bone meal tankage is added also to a forage for birds. At layers the inclusion of a product in a diet raises a yaytsenoskost and allows to save a little on sterns. But it is impossible to add flour to birds in number of more than 7% of total amount grain. In this case it is very important to use only quality flour. Unfair producers add soy to products. It is inadmissible. Such flour doesn't bring benefit, but its use can negatively affect health of animals.
For feeding of dogs now such product is almost not used. It can partially replace a forage, but to a large extent for the purpose of economy of a main product of food.
Protein meat and bone meal tankage is used as fertilizer. The product of any grade is suitable for these purposes. It is brought in the soil in pure form or parted previously in water. In it there is a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus and such fertilizers are recommended to introduce in the fall. At care for each plant species it is necessary to be guided by recommendations the expert and to bring flour in the soil in certain quantities. In difference from many fertilizers, this product is completely safe for vegetable cultures and its application doesn't lead to accumulation of hazardous substances in vegetables.
How to store flour
Protein meat and bone meal tankage contains a lot of protein and fat therefore it is necessary to store it correctly. It is recommended to keep in clean, well aired and it is desirable dark rooms. Temperature condition is also important, but there is no need to store flour in the cool place. The most important is not to allow temperature increase in above +25 °C.
Ingress of water and direct sunshine on bags with flour isn't allowed. If all conditions are met, the product is stored about 1 year. The period of storage depends on a type of goods, content in it of fat, humidity. Producers can establish different expiration dates for various grades of flour.
If the smell or color of a product changed or there was a period of storage, flour is subject to utilization. It is dangerous to use it for the fodder purposes as fats at decomposition can allocate toxic connections. It is in certain cases admissible to apply such products as fertilizer.