Meat and Bone Meal: Instructions for Use

Meat and Bone Meal: Instructions for Use.

Meat and bone meal is used as a vitamin and mineral supplement for feeding large and small cattle, as well as pigs and poultry. This is a very valuable product containing a lot of protein. The use of meat and bone meal allows you to balance the diet of animals and significantly increase their productivity. Afzal Industry is the best Meat bone meal manufacturer in India.

Product description

It is a meat and bone meal powder of light or dark brown color with a specific smell. When choosing this product, you should pay special attention to the shade. The color should be brown. A yellowish tint indicates that the product is of poor quality. Chicken feathers give this color to the powder. In poultry, when yellow flour is added to the feed, a decrease in egg production is observed.

In addition, feather consumption provokes the development of cannibalism in chickens. By quality, meat and bone meal is divided into three classes, depending on the fat content. The smaller it is, the better the product. When evaluating the quality of flour, you should also pay attention to:

• Smell. It should not be musty or putrid.
• Appearance. Only flour of a homogeneous composition is considered to be of high quality. It should not contain lumps or granules with a diameter of more than 12 mm.

How is it made

In the production of this product, meat is used that is unsuitable as food for humans: carcasses of animals that died from non-communicable diseases, waste from the meat processing industry, etc. The manufacturing process consists of the following steps: Waste from meat production is boiled and cooled to a temperature of 25 degrees. The resulting greaves are crushed in special units. The powder is sifted through a sieve. The resulting flour is driven through magnetic separators in order to remove metal impurities. Next, the product is treated with antioxidants to prevent spoilage of fat. The finished powder is packaged in bags or bags.

Meat and bone meal: instructions for use when feeding chickens

The inclusion of this product in the diet of laying hens can significantly increase egg production and save a little on feed. You can mix meat and bone meal with chickens both in concentrated feed and in mash. The optimal dose is 7% of the total amount of cereals. Only high-quality meat and bone meal should be fed to the bird. For chickens, this product is very useful because it contains a large amount of protein. Unfortunately, in recent years, many flour companies have begun to add soy to it to reduce the cost. Feeding such a fake does not bring practically any result. Egg production does not increase; in birds, due to a lack of protein, the number of cases of pecking and cannibalism increases. Therefore, you should not buy cheap flour from little-known manufacturers. Too much flour should not be given to the bird. This can lead to such an unpleasant disease as gout. Also, in chickens whose diet exceeds the content of this additive, amyloidosis often develops. This is the name of a violation of protein metabolism, accompanied by the deposition in the tissues of substances with a certain chemical property.

Meat and bone meal: instructions for use when feeding pigs.

Among other things, feeding meat and bone meal stimulates weight gain in animals. It is given to pigs in an amount of 5-15% of the total mass of feed. It can be a very good supplement for both sows and nursery animals. The use of meat and bone meal as an additive is not recommended only for very small weaned piglets.

After adding flour to the feed, it is no longer possible to heat-treat it. Otherwise, most of the protein and vitamins will be lost. This rule should be observed when feeding both pigs and other types of farm animals and poultry.

Use for cattle

Feeding this product to cattle also allows for a significant increase in productivity. For cows, you should choose flour made from poultry or pork. In a product containing bones and muscle tissues of cattle, there may be a causative agent of such an unpleasant cow disease as spongiform encephalopathy. Since cows are still herbivorous animals, they often simply refuse to eat meat and bone meal. In this case, the product is mixed with bran or concentrated with a gradual increase in the dose. In a few days, the amount of flour consumed by cattle should be increased to 10-100 g per head. MRS give no more than 20 g per day.

Flour in the diet of other animals

In small quantities, this product, which is a source of protein, vitamins and minerals, can also be given to other types of farm animals and poultry: ducks, geese, rabbits, guinea fowl, turkeys, etc. In this case, the proportion of flour in the total amount of feed is usually no more than 5-10%. It would be quite justified to use a product such as meat and bone meal for dogs (no more than 100 g per day). This allows you to save a little on feeding animals. This product in this case acts as a meat substitute. Pet lovers consider it more as a budget option for complementary foods.

Composition of a quality product

Real meat and bone meal, the use of which is justified in the breeding of almost all types of farm animals, has a balanced composition regulated by certain veterinary standards. Protein in it should contain at least 30-50%. The composition of flour includes such substances: Muscle and bone tissue. This is the main ingredient of the product. Fat. It should not contain too much (no more than 13-20% depending on the variety). Ash in the amount of 26-38%. Water. It should also not be too much (no more than 7%). In addition, the composition of flour may include such waste from the meat processing industry as stomachs, thyroid and parathyroid glands, ovaries, spinal cord and brain, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, etc. The quality and composition of meat and bone meal GOST 17536-82 is regulated.