Animal Feeds

Alfalfa- plants with blooms have tougher stems

Red clover

Large pink/ purple blooms

Birdsfoot trefoil

Legume common in pastures, yellow flowers

Orchard grass

Looks like green wheat

Perennial ryegrass

Simple rye seeds one on each side

Timothy grass

Large skinny flowers on top

Red Canarygrass

Fluffier yellow wheat (fluffy like canaries)

Switch grass

Has red tips on the end of the wheat

Kentucky bluegrass

Shorter and finer leaves, regular grass

Smooth Bromegrass

Fescue

Long skinny grass

Big Bluestem

Grass hay

Alfalfa hay

More green and chopped up than regular hay

Whole corn

Type of grain which is a good source of starch for energy

Wheat

A grain that is a good source of starch for energy

Barley

A grain that is a good source of starch from energy

Cracked corn

A grain that is a good source of starch for energy

Milo

A grain that is a good source of starch for energy

Oats

A grain that is a good source of starch for energy

Cane molasses

Blackstrap; moist so helps feed not be dusty and a brownish color not black

Beet Molasses

Dried molasses that is darker than cane molasses

Dried whey

High in lactose and used in grain mixes to feed young

Whole cottonseeds

Byproduct and 20% fat

Whole soybeans

20% fat and high CP

Lupine

10% fat- spotted balls

Canola

Rapeseed- all black balls

Flaxseed

Beef tallow

99% fat, less digestible

Bergafat- mostly palmitic acid

Vegetable oil

Megalac

Ca salts and fatty acids

44 Soybean meal (with hulls) with 44% CP

48 Soybean meal (dehulled) 48% CP

Fine powder

Sunflower meal (protein feed)

Dusty brown (like the dusty color of a sunflower seed)

Canola meal (protein feed)

Looks lie flax seed but ground up

Soybean meal expeller

Protein feed that is high in rumen undergraded protein so more value to ruminants

Corn gluten meal

High protein especially for ruminants but poor amino acid balance

Blood meal

Protein high feed especially for ruminants and this has good amino acid balance

Meat and bone meal

Protein high for ruminants and good mini acid balance

Fishmeal

High protein that is good for ruminants

Hydrolyzed feather meal

Protein high for ruminants but cheaper and not good amino acid balance and has to be partially hydrolyzed or will not be digested

The color is bird poop color

Urea

Non protein nitrogen with 280% CP; used in ruminants only

Lysine hydrochloride

Monogastric diets

D, L Methionine

Monogastric diets

Dried plasma

High quality but expensive

Pink powder like animal tissue

Soy hulls

Byproduct of soybeans and high in fiber

Lightest hulls

Beet pulp

High fiber byproduct feed

Black pellet

Corn gluten meal

Byproduct of wet corn milling and high in fiber

Distillers grains

Byproducts of making ethanol from corn or wheat

High fiber and high in rumen protein

Hominy

Byproduct of dry corn milling with high fiber

The lightest yellow powder

Brewers grains

Byproduct of beer with high high fiber

Malt sprouts

Leftover of making beer with high fiber

Looks like full cases of barley

Wheat bran

Byproduct of making flour with high fiber

Bigger than wheat minds and same color as corn

Wheat minds

Byproduct of making wheat flour that has good fiber

Cottonseed hulls

Very high in fiber and low energy

Fluffy tuffs of cotton sticking out

Almond hulls

Very high fiber and low energy

Citrus pulp

Byproduct of making orange juice with good fiber

Yellow pellets

Sunflower hulls

Has good fiber

Looks like ground up sunflower seed coverings

Alfalfa seed screenings

Residue from growing seeds and has good fiber

Bakery waste

High in starch, sugar, and salt

Waste cookie meal

High in starch, sugar and fat

Fig seconds

Human byproduct

Human food waste pellets

Restaurant food waste with corn or other feed

White salt

Sodium chloride

Trace mineralized salt

Limestone

Great source for calcium

Gray/ white powdered

Potassium chloride

Looks like sea salt

Dicalcium phosphate

Oyster shells, same as limestone and used for poultry

Calcium sulfate

Magnesium oxide

Copper sulfate

Blue

TM vitamin premix

Include s a high fiber carrier so looks more like a byproduct feed

Complete mineral premix

Sheep sample but it will have ground corn or high fiber feed mixed in

Complete mineral vitamin supplement

Turkey sample

Corn silage

High energy for forage and half grain

Sorghum

Not as digestible as corn silage

Oatlage

Whole plant harvested before the grain has developed so low digestibility

Wheat straw

The part of the plant after harvesting the grain

Corn stover

Corn stalk with leaves after harvesting the grain

Beef feedlot finisher grain mix

High fiber

Dairy high group TMR

Wet, this is a mix of all feeds in a cows diet

Trace mineral salt- looks like red clay color