Advantages
- Stimulates partial digestion of nitrogen rich feed ingredients In soaked feed
- Helps in improving palatability
- Imparts fruity odour
- Prevents contamination by aerobic microorganisms in nitrogen rich wet ingredients.
- Increases milk yield without causing stress to the animals
What is Soaked feed?
- Soaked feed is the process of preparing ruminant feed ingredients e.g. coarse corn, cotton seed cake, ground nut cake etc in wet form.
- Some of these feed ingredients are in powder form which spreads in atmosphere during their application so mixed with water to avoid loss during its application as feed while some feed ingredients are in cake form which is very hard and available as big pieces for application. Hard cake is made soft by soaking in water.
- Ratio of agriculture residue and water mixture is 1:2. It is soaked in water for minimum 6-8 hours before feeding to ruminants
Role of microorganisms in making Soaked feed
- Main role of probiotic microorganisms is to attack cellulosic and hemicellulosic material including starch and release nitrogen in amino acids form.
- Probiotic microorganisms also release easily metabolizable simple sugars and organic acids which impart fruity flavour and results in protein rich feed.
- If soaked feed is prepared by just mixing agriculture residues with water for treatment span of 6-8 hours various aerial microorganisms spoil the wet nitrogen rich soaked feed ingredients which results in undesirable smell.
- If specific probiotics, Bacillus, Lactobacillus and yeasts are used to prepare soaked feed they will reduce the possibility of contamination by aerobic microorganisms.
- Role of microorganisms is to produce highly palatable, nutritive soaked feed with fruity odor for ruminants
For Top dressing
COMPOSITION
- Bacillus subtilis - 1 billion cfu/gm
- Lactobacillus sporogenes - 1 billion cfu/gm
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae - 1 billion cfu/gm
RECOMMENDED USAGE
- 100 gm RumiSoak to be mixed with 10 kg agriculture residues OR as directed by nutritionist
