AN Lab practical 1

What are Grasses?

What are Legumes?

What are the different growing Zones?

What are the growing seasons?

Warm and cool growing seasons

What is the cool growing season?

crops that begin growth in the fall or late winter/early spring and grow during the cooler months of the year.

What is the warm growing season?

Crops that begin to grow in the spring or early summer and grow during the warmest months of the year.

What is the silage pH range?

3.5-4.5

What are saturated Fatty Acids?

What are Unsaturated Fatty Acids?

Unsaturated FA have double bonds.

How much more energy does fat provide compared to carbohydrates?

2.25x

What are the benefits of adding fat to an animal ration?

Benefits of adding fat to an animal ration is to improve milk yields, body condition, and fertility, improve digestibility, increase absorption of lipid soluble vitamins.

What is the required nutritional value for fats?

At least 90% FA, maximum 2.5% unsaponifiable matter, Maximum 1.0% insoluble, fat must also be free from toxic or detrimental compounds.

What is the required nutritional value for oils?

What are some issues with fat in the animal diet?

What are the ID fat sources?

Fat, oil, or oil mixture and wholeseed oils, cotton seeds, and soybeans

What is the threshold percentage to be classified as a protein source?

Above 20%

Is it expensive to feed protein?

Yes, It Is more expensive to feed protein

What are the different protein sources?

Plant sources, animal sources, marine sources, and milk sources.

What are some key words that indicate protein in feed sources?

You can look for specific words like meal

What are the two ways of processing feedstuffs?

Mechanical and Extraction

What is Mechanical Processing?

Mechanical is high temperature by pressing leads to denaturation of proteins and lower availability.

What is Extraction?

Solvent Extraction leads to a lower fat content by removing more oil from the seed.

What are the NSC sources?

What are the Non protein molecules and amino acid structures?

Why would we supply molasses in a feed ration?

to make a food ration more palatable and reducing dust and from respiratory issues from inhaling the dust.

Why do we care about NCS’s?

What do NSC’s provide?

What consists of animal fat?

Rendered fats from beef or pork by-product

What is poultry fat?

Fats from 100% poultry offal

What is blended feed-grade animal fat?

Blends tallow, grease, poultry, and restaurant

What is blended animal and vegetable fats?

Blends of class 3 and vegetable fat

What is feed grade vegetable fat?

Vegetable oil and soapstocks