Balanced Concentrate Mixture A balanced mixture is usually - TopicsExpress

Balanced Concentrate Mixture A balanced mixture is usually prepared in such a manner that 3.5 to 4 Kg of it may support 10 litres of milk production. Normally in dairy animals this mixture is fed at rate of ½ of the milk yield (one Kg of concentrate mixture for every two litres of milk). Balanced concentrate mixture feeding is essential for dairy animals because a single concentrate like maize, barley or oat and oilseed cake alone cannot meet the requirements properly. If a single concentrate, such as maize, sorghum, or barley is considered for feeding of 400 kg lactating buffalo yielding 10 litres milk, about 7 Kg grain will be needed to provide the protein requirement. Inferior quality hay or straw roughage is not only costly but also harmful. Similarly when high protein oilcake like groundnut and till cakes are sued as single concentrate, the excess of protein is wasted and the ratio between protein and carbohydrate is also disturbed which affects milk production. Ingredients Ratio (%) Cotton seed cake 15 Maize Glutan 30% 20 Sunflower meal 5 Wheat Bran 18 Rice Polishing 15 Maize grains 10 Molasses 15 Mineral Mixture 2 Total 100 CP% 17.6% TDN 75.3% Ingredients Ratio (%) Soyabean meal 14 Sunflower meal 15 Rice polishing 20 Wheat Bran 24 Grains 10 Mineral Mixture 2 Total 100 CP% 18.21% TDN 77.81% Ingredients Ratio (%) Rape seed cake 15 Cotton seed cake 15 Rice Polishing 20 Wheat Bran 28 Maize grains 20 Mineral Mixture 2. Total 100 CP% 16.17% TDN 73.43%