Chrysanthemum powder is a by-product of the planting of asteraceae plant pigments with marigold extracting natural yellow pigments. The extraction process is to dry the marigold flower in bloom and press it into granules, and then extract the yellow pigment with a solvent.
Marigold planting and processing is an emerging pigment industry in recent years, mainly located in North China and Northeast China. The appearance of chrysanthemum powder is yellowish green powder with fibers or pellets similar to rabbit pellet feed, with sourness and special smell. Its nutrition is close to alfalfa meal, and it is a kind of high quality feed material for herbivores.
The nutritional content of chrysanthemum powder is roughly: 11%-13% of crude protein, 7-8 megajoules per kilogram of rabbit digestive energy, 24%-26% of crude fiber, 0.6% lysine, 0.45% cystine, Fat 0.6%, lutein 0.2 g/kg, calcium 1%, phosphorus 0.2%, moisture less than 12%.
In early 2006, the author applied chrysanthemum powder to raise rabbit feed in Wuyang County and surrounding rabbit breeding areas in Henan Province, and achieved good results. The range of applications includes long-haired rabbits, rex rabbits and meat rabbits, totaling about 10,000 only. Chrysanthemum powder is used as roughage in rabbit feed. The addition rate is generally 5% to 20%, which can replace part of alfalfa meal, grasshopper and bran. The maximum addition ratio should not exceed 25%. The excessively high ratio may cause mild diarrhea due to the coldness of chrysanthemum powder.
Chrysanthemum powder nutrition is more comprehensive and balanced, can replace high-quality grass powder. Compared with alfalfa meal, in addition to a slightly lower content of crude protein, other nutrition of chrysanthemum powder is similar to alfalfa flour, but the price is much lower than alfalfa flour.
The use of chrysanthemum powder can reduce or even avoid the use of inferior grasshoppers, which may cause gastrointestinal inflammation and other problems. Usually 30% to 40% of grasshoppers are added to the rabbit's feed to meet the rabbit's demand for crude fiber. The grass pods used in Wuyang and its surrounding areas are dominated by rice hulls and peanut husks, and their quality is difficult to guarantee and is particularly susceptible to mildew. This is the main cause of multiple gastrointestinal diseases in rabbits.
Chrysanthemum powder has the health-care effects of Chinese herbal medicines, which can improve the disease resistance and fertility of rabbits and reduce the symptoms of chronic respiratory diseases.
Rabbit feed supplemented with chrysanthemum powder can easily suppress the granules, not only the granulation is fast, but also the granules produced are hard. This is conducive to rabbit feeding, saving feed.
The use of chrysanthemum powder can reduce the use of chemical synthetic antibiotics, reduce chemical pollution and drug residues, and improve the quality of rabbit products.
Chrysanthemum powder is a byproduct of processing. The use of chrysanthemum powder to make rabbit feed not only utilizes waste from other industries, but also enriches the source of feed.
Using chrysanthemum powder can reduce rabbit feed costs.
The use of chrysanthemum powder reduces the proportion of inferior grasshoppers and helps increase the nutrient concentration in the feed.
Need to be particularly reminded that, as the chrysanthemum powder is a new feed material, but also has a special smell, suddenly feeding a high percentage (more than 8%) of chrysanthemum powder will cause rabbits to reduce food and light diarrhea. Therefore, when chrysanthemum powder is used, it should be fed from a low proportion (5% to 8%) for more than two weeks, so that the rabbit has a period of adaptation process, and then gradually transition to a higher proportion of use. In contrast, younger rabbits adapt faster than adult rabbits, and rabbits and rabbits adapt faster than long-haired rabbits.
Frozen Shelled shrimps,Frozen Bamboo shrimp,Frozen Red shrimp
Zhejiang ocean family co.,ltd , https://www.ocean-family.com