Feedstuff Categories
Mineral & Vitamin
Forages/Roughages
Energy Feeds
Protein Supplements
100
High in cellulose, hemicellulose, and possibly lignin and low in readily digested carbohydrates such as starch and sugars.
What are dry forages and roughages?
100
What is trace mineral salt?
100
What is tall fescue?
100
Protein content of energy feeds.
What is less than 20%?
100
What is cottonseed meal?
200
The plant material undergoes a controlled fermentation that produces acids that then kill off bacteria, molds, and other destructive organisms.
What is silage?
200
Should only be fed to ruminants and can be toxic if fed at excessive levels.
What is urea?
200
Forage and roughage proved the bulk of the diets for these animals.
What are herbivores (ruminants and cecal fermenters)?
200
What are whole soybeans?
200
What are alfalfa cubes?
300
Include the cereal grains, by-product feeds made from cereal grains, and fruits and nuts.
What are energy feeds?
300
Can be used in swine diets as a growth promotant, used in treatment of sheep foot rot, or to treat barber pole worms in sheep.
What is copper sulfate?
300
Two characteristics of good quality forage.
What are being relatively immature when harvested, being green and leafy, having soft pliable stems, free from molds or mustiness, free from foreign material?
300
Primarily fed to ruminant show animals and sometimes horses. Increases surface area and gelatinizes some of the starch.
What is steam flaked corn?
300
What is brewers dried grain?
400
Include feed from plant origin, animal origin, or nonprotein nitrogen sources.
What are protein supplements?
400
This mineral deficiency is associated with white muscle disease in lambs and goat kids.
What is selenium?
400
What is timothy hay?
400
What is steam rolled barley?
400
Most important sources of plant origin protein supplements.
What are soybeans and cottonseed?
500
Animals need these nutrients in much smaller amounts than they do the other nutrients.
What are mineral and vitamin supplements?
500
What is dicalcium phosphate?
500
What is orchard grass?
500
What is shelled corn?
500
Protein supplements from this origin are primarily derived as end products of the meat packing, dairy processing, and marine industries.
What is animal origin?