Orange peel

[mixedfarming6910]

Anyone on here feeding orange peel to cattle, if so what are you mixing with and are you drying it first, TIA

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Marmalade??

 

[Hesstondriver]

Anyone on here feeding orange peel to cattle, if so what are you mixing with and are you drying it first, TIA

Take it you are talking about citrus pulp?

 

[mixedfarming6910]

Take it you are talking about citrus pulp?

Citrus pulp is dried this isn’t

 

[tr250]

We used to but our local factory went bust so don’t anymore. We fed it in tmr and basically for every kg of silage we took out we replaced with citrus

 

[som farmer]

orange is all right, lemon and grapefruit is not, cattle don't like it, that's for citrus pulp.

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

Citrus pulp is dried this isn’t

the citrus pulp I had was a wet product. Plenty of orange in as opposed to lemon but couldn’t get the cattle to eat it. Pity, it smelt lovely. It was cheap enough but didn’t run with it as intake went down when mixed in the tmr.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

I used to use dried citrus a lot they love it but get addicted to it, take it out suddenly and they stop eating. There was some to do about some contaminant in it and they stopped importing it, used to come from the US. No doubt Trident were part of the lobby to stop it behind the scenes, it held back the price of beet pulp

 

[Northeastfarmer]

think you have to be careful feeding too much of it till they get used to it as the cattle can become p!ssed

 

[Farmer Roy]

So - is there much citrus produced in the UK or is this yet another imported feed product ?

Yet, everyone here is so against imported food for human consumption ?

just asking . . .

 

[Full of bull(s)]

think you have to be careful feeding too much of it till they get used to it as the cattle can become p!ssed

The biggest problem is when you run out

 

[Full of bull(s)]

So - is there much citrus produced in the UK or is this yet another imported feed product ?

Yet, everyone here is so against imported food for human consumption ?

just asking . . .

Mostly it’s all fresh pulp from juice companies, imported oranges of course, farmers mopping up the food industries problems as usual. Big factory in South Wales I think is the main one, Tropicana maybe?

 

[badger nadgers]

Marmalade??

Nah, that's for bears.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Mostly it’s all fresh pulp from juice companies, imported oranges of course, farmers mopping up the food industries problems as usual. Big factory in South Wales I think is the main one, Tropicana maybe?

Pencefn feeds were taking a lot from there and selling a moist blend for fattening lambs and cattle. There was Trafford gold,bread and beer pulp as well as the orange peel and other things. Could tell the lambs in the market that were on it because they stank of rotten oranges and sh!t like grey sewage,but users all reckon there's no better feed. Whether the peel actually helped or whether it was just to bulk it out I don't know

 

[nails]

Main constituents
You can feed it but it aint worth what they want for it , smells nice though

Parameter	As fed	On DM	Unit	Other	Unit
Dry matter	90.3	100	%		-
Crude protein	6.3	7	%		-
Crude fibre	12.6	14	%		-
Crude fat	2.2	2.5	%		-
Ash	6.2	6.9	%		-
Insoluble ash	0.2	0.3	%		-
NDF	19.5	21.6	%		-
ADF	14.3	15.9	%		-
Lignin	2.3	2.5	%		-
Water insoluble cell walls	43.3	48	%		-
Starch	6	6.6	%		-
Starch, enzymatic method	0.05	0.05	%		-
Total sugars	22	24.4	%		-
Gross energy (kcal)	3790	4190	kcal/kg		-
Gross energy (MJ)

 

[nails]

So - is there much citrus produced in the UK or is this yet another imported feed product ?

Yet, everyone here is so against imported food for human consumption ?

just asking . . .

Since Global Warming England is full of Lemons

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Main constituents
You can feed it but it aint worth what they want for it , smells nice though

Parameter	As fed	On DM	Unit	Other	Unit
Dry matter	90.3	100	%		-
Crude protein	6.3	7	%		-
Crude fibre	12.6	14	%		-
Crude fat	2.2	2.5	%		-
Ash	6.2	6.9	%		-
Insoluble ash	0.2	0.3	%		-
NDF	19.5	21.6	%		-
ADF	14.3	15.9	%		-
Lignin	2.3	2.5	%		-
Water insoluble cell walls	43.3	48	%		-
Starch	6	6.6	%		-
Starch, enzymatic method	0.05	0.05	%		-
Total sugars	22	24.4	%		-
Gross energy (kcal)	3790	4190	kcal/kg		-
Gross energy (MJ)

Hardly looks worth putting in the mixer?

 

[michael N123]

Pencefn feeds were taking a lot from there and selling a moist blend for fattening lambs and cattle. There was Trafford gold,bread and beer pulp as well as the orange peel and other things. Could tell the lambs in the market that were on it because they stank of rotten oranges and sh!t like grey sewage,but users all reckon there's no better feed. Whether the peel actually helped or whether it was just to bulk it out I don't know

I’m sure Trafford gold made our animals go backwards

dad thought it was brilliant stuff purely because it was cheap

 

[Full of bull(s)]

Hardly looks worth putting in the mixer?

Decent fibre, good sugar levels but the main benefit is driving intakes they go wild for the smell

 

[Pistonbroke]

I’m sure Trafford gold made our animals go backwards

dad thought it was brilliant stuff purely because it was cheap

We started using it when it was made from maize and clamped it with bread and beet nuts 3:1:1. Absolute rocket fuel. Could fatten big plain ram hoggets like magic. Once it was wheat based it was never the same,even though on paper it was very little different, 0.2 ME less I think