Conservation of Grasses Using the Method of High-Temperature Drying

Abstract

The production of artificially dried feeds is one of the most effective ways to preserve the nutritional properties of the original plant material for the long term. This method was used in the Soviet Union and currently applies in the countries of Europe and in the United States to obtain the ingredients of feed for pigs, poultry and calves. Introducing into the mixed feeds the vitamin grasses flour, that reached by biological active substances, provides the partial replacement of the expensive premixes and additives. The efficiency of usage the artificially dried grass in the rations of animals was considerate in the present study and the factors of its quality enhancing were estimated.