Well another successful trip to the grain facility yesterday with my new ration in hand. I have to supply them with what I will need about a week before because some feedstuffs they do not have in-house,but the delivery truck comes each Thursday so my fish meal,red millet,sunflower seeds should be here by next Friday.(Also the "miracle" ingredient) I did a lot more reading on Molasses and for what I'm wanting to use it for as a adhesive for protein to adhere to larger feed particles although would work,the side effects in my peas does not need to be compromised,especially if they turn their beaks up and won't eat it. $400 worth of feed they won't eat wouldn't be good.
So,what we decided to use is called CEL,,a super sticky soybean oil that is very,very high in energy,but don't add protein. This ration will be close to 20% protein,cutting back 150lbs of alfalfa meal in this ton.The CEL comes in 35lb containers and costs $1.40 a pound.It will not go rancid when the weather gets hot but once again it is soybean based and if peas can taste it,they may turn their beaks skyward as they do with leaving the soybean meal in the bottom of the feed bowls daily. We are going to experiment during the mixing process with this ton batch by only largely cracking 500 lbs of corn,200 lbs of sunflower seeds and adding the 200 pounds of red millet (not cracking this) then adding a few pounds of CEL,then adding the fish meal,checking as we add to insure no fines are left,so the fish meal is sticking to the larger pieces of cracked grain. Then the balance of 750 lbs of corn will be cracked and added. Although CEL is clear in color once fish meal is brown and once it coats the cracked corn I hope the peas still can recognize and consume it as before.
