Now that you have learned about the nutrient categories of feed, it is time to take a look at some specific feeds and feed ingredients. Study the information in the table below. Pay particular attention to the nutrient category for each feed. Learn to recognize each feed by its characteristics (color, texture, other characteristics). On the following pages you can test your knowledge.
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Name of Feed | Nutrient Category | Color | Texture | Other Characteristics |
protein
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green | smooth | tubular shaped particles that may be of varying lengths because of breakage of the pellets | |
protein
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brown | powdery | smells like fish; look for tiny bone chips; by-product from fisheries or removal of oil from fish | |
protein
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light brown | granular to flaky | by-product after removing oil from oilseeds; 44% crude protein (CP) soybean meal = soybean meal plus soybean hulls; 48% CP = soybean meal without hulls. | |
energy
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yellow to light brown | powdery | smells sweet like milk replacer; by-product from making cheese | |
energy
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brown | flaky | whole barley that has been steamed and rolled; look for creases in the kernel caused by the roller; darker color and shorter in length than rolled oats | |
energy
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brown with white spots | flaky | by-product from removing starch from wheat; looks like crumbled bran cereal | |
energy
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brown | slightly rough with irregular edges | common cereal grain fed for its fiber | |
energy
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brown | smooth with round edges | look for crease along the middle of one side | |
energy
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yellow | smooth | most common cereal grain in Ohio | |
mineral
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gray | granular | looks like small rocks of uniform sizes | |
mineral
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light gray | granular | looks like small rocks of various sizes | |
mineral
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bronze | granular, grainy | looks like tiny, uniform crystals | |
mineral
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white | granular, grainy | looks like tiny, uniform crystals | |
light brown with yellow spots | smooth | tubular shaped particles that may be of varying lengths because of breakage of the pellets |
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