Recommended daily feed rates (per head basis)

Imported Wheat Distillers can be fed via automated feeders, top dressed or floor fed, and
used individually or as part of a blend or TMR.

•Milking Cows Up to 4 (typically 3)kg

•Dry Cows Up to 2 kg

•Replacement Heifers Up to 3 kg and up to 35% of the DMI

•Calves (to 12 weeks) Up to 1.5 kg and up to 25% of the DMI

•Growing Cattle Up to 2.5 kg and up to 40% of the DMI

•Finishing Cattle Up to 5 kg and up to 40% of the DMI

•Suckler Cows Up to 4 (typically 2)kg

•# Ewes and Rams Up to 1(typically 0.5)kg

•# Hoggets and Lambs Up to 0.75kg and up to 50% of the DMI

•# (Unlike some feeds from the whisky Industry, co-products from bio-ethanol production do not
contain high levels of copper).

•DMI = dry matter intake

• Imported Wheat Distillers are available as bulk tipped or blown loads.

• Like all dry feeds, they should be stored in a secure shed, bunker, bin or hopper and kept cool, dry and free from vermin.

Imported Wheat Distillers are a product of the bio-ethanol industry. Following the fermentation of wheat and the distillation of ethanol, they are obtained from drying solid residues of fermented grains and adding evaporated syrups (solubles).

Imported Wheat Distillers are FEMAS assured (or a recognised equivalent) product. Imported Wheat Distillers are listed under number 1.12.11 in the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials.