Richard,
I think that silage can be processed in small amounts and without any
specialized equipment but feeding it to pigs may pose certain problems.
Most farm animals depend on commercial feed these days and any significant
variation in feeding regime through inclusion of silage may lead to certain
negative consequences in the feed acceptance, initially lower resistance to
common diseases and slower growth rates. But the silage can be also
succesfully utilized as natural fertilizer in gardening for example. It
contains not only basic mineral elements but also various critical
microelements and organic compounds acting on plants as growth hormones. In
some applications on highly organic soils its acidity possibly may be
tolerated while in others could be adjusted to the desired values.
Andrew Strak
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Chivers
To: seafood
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: Fish silage
Here in the UK our processors are getting used to the idea that they have to
pay to dispose of waste fish material, rather than have it sent back to sea.
Often this is in relatively small quantities but on a daily basis. A
project in the SW of England is seeking ways to use the waste, one project
is looking at fish silage. In the past this has not taken off because the
end product is too heavy to retain a commercial value if transported around.
Does anyone know of either, a way in which small producers can use the
waste, rather than having it sent to costly industrial waste disposal
contractors or of any recent advances in fish silage perhaps on a small
scale, for example, are there any farm scale silage systems that would allow
the product to be manufactured where the end product could be fed to pigs
direct.
Thanks all.
Richard Chivers
Fisheries Consultant
Seafood Audit International
www.fishonline.co.uk
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