Distillers Feeds: Nutrient Profiles: Dairy NRC

Nutrient profiles of dried distillers grains1

This section gives values and ranges of the nutrients present in distillers grains.

  DM2
%		 CP3
%		 NDICP4
%		 ADICP5
%		 EE6
%		 NDF7
%		 ADF8
%		 Lignin
%		 Ash
%
Mean 90.2 29.7 8.6 5 10 38.8 19.7 4.3 5.2
N 9 892 879 37 392 464 493 710 46 134
SD 10 1.8 3.3 3.4 2.6 3.4 7.8 4.6 2.8 1.1
1Adapted from Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle (2001)
2Dry Matter
3Crude Protein
4Neutral Detergent insoluble crude protein
5Acid detergent insoluable crude protein
6Ether Extract
7Neutral detergent fiber
8Acid detergent fiber
9Number of observations
10Standard deviation (1, 2, and 3 SD accounts for 68, 95, and 99% of the data, respectively)
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