KR-1 COMPOUND FEEDS WITH MALT SPROUTS FOR FEEDING YOUNG CATTLE
The paper dwells on determining the optimal standards for introducing malt sprouts into compound feeds for calves aged 10-75 days and their efficiency in feeding young cattle. It has been determined malt sprouts used in compound feed contributed to increase in protein concentration by 9.7%, energy and protein ratio from 0.35 to 0.39, and increase in nitrogen balance in rumen by 2.7 g. Use of malt sprouts in KR-1 compound feed for calves in amount of 5% wt instead of grain components allowed to obtain 806 g of body weight gain over the experimental period, while reducing the feed cost for weight gain by 7.3%. Feeding animals with the developed compound feed with 5% of malt sprouts helped to reduce the cost of calves body weight gain by 10 percent.