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Biofuel co-products as livestock feed - Opportunities and challenges

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Co-<strong>products</strong> from biofuel production for farm animals – an EU perspective 213TABLE 5Comparison of four trials with distillers grain with solubles in wet (DGS) or dried (DDGS) form, mainly from wheatfermentation, in diets for lactating dairy <strong>co</strong>wsParameter Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Trial 4Duration (days) 147 50 n.s. n.s. 60Cows (n) 16 36 126 123 3B<strong>as</strong>al diet MS, GS MS, GS MS, GS MS, GS, HayProtein supplement Wheat DDGS RSM Rye DWG BG Wheat DDGS SBM, RSM Maize DDGS Wheat DDGS SBM, RSC(kg DM/day) 3.5 3.6 ca. 3.8 ca. 1.9 ca. 1.8 ca. 1.5 ca. 1.1 ca. 1.0 ca. 1.2DM intake (kg/day) 20.8 21.9 ca. 24.0 ca. 23.6 n.s. n.s. 20.8 20.9 20.9Milk (kg/day) 34.9 34.0 42.1 42.5 35.8 37.0 26.4 25.9 26.2Fat (g/kg milk) 32.6 35.3 38.9 39.7 41.0 42.0 44.6 44.8 44.3Protein (g/kg milk) 31.1 32.9 32.3 32.4 35.1 35.3 33.3 33.4 33.9Notes: MS = maize silage; GS = gr<strong>as</strong>s silage; RSM = rapeseed meal; BG = brewers grain; SBM = soybean meal; RSC = rapeseed cake. Sources: Trial 1 –Franke, Meyer <strong>and</strong> Flachowsky, 2009, working at Institute of Animal Nutrition, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), Federal Institute for Animal Health,Braunschweig, Germany. Trial 2 – Engelhard, 2011, working at Centre for Livestock Husb<strong>and</strong>ry <strong>and</strong> Equipment, Regional Institute for Agriculture,Forestry <strong>and</strong> Horticulture Saxony-Anhalt (LLFG), Iden, Germany. Trial 3 – Dunkel, 2011, working at Agricultural Research Centre of Thuringia (TLL), Jena,Germany. Trial 4 – Urdl et al., 2006, working at Institute of Livestock Research, Agricultural Education <strong>and</strong> Research Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein(LFZ), Irdning, Austria.TABLE 6Comparison of dried distillers grain with solubles (DDGS) in diets for bulls during the whole fattening period <strong>and</strong> growingmale calves before the beginning of the fattening periodTrial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3Animals (n) 44 42 15 14 15 21Final live weight (kg) 710 712 720 556 560 557 558 162 164 153 157B<strong>as</strong>al diet MS MS MS + HayProtein supplement DDGS SBM RSM DDGS SBM RSM RSM + DDGS DDGS RSM DDGS RSMSupplement intake ca. 1.3 ca. 1.0 ca. 1.4 1.44 0.96 1.30 0.72 +0.74 0.42 0.44 0.59 0.58(kg DM/day)DM intake (kg/day) 9.37 9.37 9.51 7.66 7.54 7.59 7.97 2.4 2.4 2.9 3.0Crude protein intake 1.110 1.116 1.102 1.118 1.103 1.078 1.155 0.412 0.423 0.469 0.476(kg/day)Energy intake108.3 109.3 111.0 86.2 84.9 84.7 89.3 31.0 30.3 35.5 36.2(MJ ME/day)Live weight gain(kg/day)1.493 b 1.602 a 1.549 ab 1.310 b 1.390 ab 1.440 ab 1.460 a 1.008 1.039 1.003 1.053Notes: MS = maize silage; RSM = rapeseed meal; SBM = soybean meal; RSC = rapeseed cake; ME = metabolizable energy. a,b = Different suffixes ina row within a trial indicate significant differences (P

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