INFLUENCE OF CORN STILLAGE ON CLINICAL STATUS AND HEMATOLOGICAL INDICES
In the practice of agronomists in North Ossetia-Alania due to poor weather conditions, corn is often left on the field. As a result of unfavourable environmental factors (moisture, temperature and disease-causing agents), such grain is nonstandard and somewhat toxic to animals and consumers. Some authors [3, 5] believe that this feed product is affected by various fungi, parasites and recommended to be used for processing in wine beverage and brewing industry. Chemical-Toxicological analysis of distiller's grains after overwintered corn grain set the fourth degree of toxicity. In literature there is evidence of pigs' feeding with such distiller's grains, whereby there are no clinical and hematological disturbances. In our conditions, we carried out similar cattle test. While the animals of the experimental group were fed with distiller's grains made of processed overwintered under snow corn grain but the control group was fed with non-toxic distiller's grains recycled at the brewery “Bavaria”. After we fixed the clinical status of livestock and indices of blood, urine analysis, milk and determined the animal weight increase, we fed distiller's grains 35-40 l/day during two months. As a result we have concluded that the mentioned feed did not cause clinical features of toxicosis and significant changes in the blood composition. Average daily gain of live weight in the experiment was 900 g/day, in the control group - 950g respectively. Thus, we introduced corn distiller's grains of quartic toxicity in the amount of 35-40 l/day into the cows' diets but excluded it for down-calving cows 1,5-2 months before calving.