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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: Tricky Trev on February 11, 2013, 07:45:15 pm

Title: brewers grain
Post by: Tricky Trev on February 11, 2013, 07:45:15 pm

Hi might have chance off getting hold off  some sacks off brewers waste how s best to incorporate it in my feed 

Title: Re: brewers grain
Post by: sokel on February 11, 2013, 08:18:25 pm

I take it by Brewers waste you do mean the Grains ? Ours love the brewers grains wont touch the Hops  , we just reduced the nuts and replaced with  the Grains/fruit/veg
 

Title: Re: brewers grain
Post by: Tricky Trev on February 11, 2013, 08:26:09 pm

Ye s sorry its the grains I will be getting, what ratio would you mix it

Title: Re: brewers grain
Post by: Button End Beasts on February 12, 2013, 09:28:57 am

We get this for our pigs but they don't really like it all that much. I only give them a bit at a time and generally don't feed it to any weaners when we are getting them ready for slaughter. So, for a pig on 4lbs of pig nuts a day, we would give them 3lbs pig nuts mixed with 1lb brewers grains.


If you have sheep they go nuts for the stuff! So we gladly give it to them at this time of year.

Title: Re: brewers grain
Post by: benkt on February 12, 2013, 09:39:19 am

Our pigs love it when we manage to get some - I mix in maybe 3:1 or 4:1 pig nuts to grain but we don't get huge amounts so this makes it last a couple of days.