JPS5813354A - Preparation of packed silage feed - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prepare industrially easily a silage feed equal to that prepared by a silo, by cutting dried water hyacinth into thin pieces, adding a carbohydrate and an acid to them, blending and molding them, followed by subjecting them to vacuum packing in a hermetical packing bag. CONSTITUTION:Fresh water hyacinth with water content of about 90wt% is dried by sun light to water content of about 70wt%, and cut into a proper size, preferably about 2-3cm. The prepared thinly cut pieces are blended with a carbohydrate (e.g., waste molasses, etc.) and an acid (e.g., formic acid, etc.), for example, about 10wt% former and about 0.3-0.4wt% latter, to give a mixture, which is molded under pressure by a proper press molding machine, to give a molded article with weight of about 50kg. This molded article is put in a hermetic packing material (e.g., polyethylene bag, etc.), subjected to vacuum treatment, and immediately sealed to give a product.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a method for producing packaged silage feed, in which feed made from grass as silage is simply packaged, and livestock breeders who do not have silage equipment can easily obtain the silage feed and use it as feed. It is.

Silage feed is a feed that preserves the succulent feed that livestock prefer to eat, and allows livestock to eat the succulent feed whenever necessary in the form of cowhide during the winter or in areas where it is difficult to dry. It is feed. and.

Conventionally, to obtain this silage feed, a silo with a diameter of 1.5 m and a depth of 3 m is installed using materials such as concrete or concrete blocks, and in the summer, cowhide such as corn, clover, vetch, etc. is placed in the silo. Step on the bottom surface and pack it horizontally, cover the top with something to prevent it from coming into contact with air, and place a weight on top.

If you leave it as it is for a month or two, you will be able to obtain a succulent feed that is almost the same as the raw material, and by giving this to livestock at any time even in the winter, you can bring the nutritional status of the livestock closer to that of summer. It is widely used as a feed that is excellent for the health and production of livestock.

However, even with such excellent silage feed,
As mentioned above, its production requires the installation of large silos, and it is extremely difficult to produce silage feed except in areas such as Hokkaido and other regions that have vast livestock areas and can harvest large amounts of cowhide in the summer. be. Further, even in such an environment, it was almost impossible to use silage feed for raising ordinary household livestock because silo equipment required a great deal of expense and effort.

Therefore, the present inventors conducted extensive research to meet the demand for making such silage feed easily available to general small-scale livestock breeders.

As a raw material for silage feed, we first focused on the succulent nature of water hyacinth, an aquatic plant that grows widely as a weed in warm regions of the world, and investigated the production process of silage feed in silos. In other words, in the silo, the carbohydrates in the laminated cowhide are decomposed due to the respiration of the cowhide at an early stage, and the temperature rises to about 30℃ inside the silo.
In addition, the oxygen in the silo is consumed, carbon dioxide gas is generated, and the plants die. Next, the activity of anaerobic bacteria, especially lactic acid bacteria, begins.
Through the action of this lactic acid bacteria, silage feed is produced by decomposing glucose, etc. in the plant body to produce lactic acid, and the acidity of this lactic acid prevents the spoilage of silage.

This mechanism of action can be easily carried out under artificial conditions rather than in a silo, and it is possible to industrially produce silage feed equivalent to silage feed produced in a silo, and it can be easily packaged to feed ordinary livestock or household livestock. Also recite using ■.

The present invention has been completed by completing a method that can be provided in a form that can be used.

The present invention is a method for producing packaged silage feed by drying and shredding water hyacinth, adding carbohydrates and acids, mixing and molding, storing the bag in an airtight packaging material bag, and sealing the bag by evacuating the bag.

The scientific name of Eichhornia crassipes used in the present invention is Eichhornia crassipes.
It is a perennial plant of the Chrysanthemum family that has long roots and branches extending to the side. It has many leaves, round or oblate, glossy, and 5 to 10cm long.

The lower half of the handle is noticeably swollen. It is an aquatic plant that grows as a weed in warm regions of the world, and grows between 20 and 30 cm tall in summer.
The inflorescences are arranged in spike-like inflorescences on 0cm long stalks, and the flowers are 3cm in diameter and are pale bluish-purple in color.For this reason, it has been cultivated only for ornamental purposes.

The method of the present invention is to reduce the water content of the cowhide from water hyacinth to approximately 70% by drying it in the sun or other appropriate drying method, and then cut the cowhide into appropriate sizes. 2-3cI 11th place, the thus cut water hyacinth cowhide is mixed with carbohydrates and acid. Examples of carbohydrates include blackstrap molasses and pine blackstrap molasses, and blackstrap molasses is preferably used. Any acid can be used as long as it has the effect of promoting the fermentation of carbohydrates by lactic acid bacteria, but it is convenient to use organic acids such as formic acid and propionic acid. Also, the amount of carbohydrates and acids used is about 20% for the former (preferably about 10%), and about 5% for the latter.
% (preferably 0.3 to 0.4% for formic acid and 0.2% for propionic acid).

The mixture obtained as described above is pressure molded using a suitable pressure molding machine to give a weight of approximately 50 kg. The molded product thus formed is placed in a bag with approximately 50 kg of packing material made of an airtight packaging material such as a sheet of polyethylene or coated polypropylene, and the inside of the bag is vacuum-treated. The degree of vacuum is preferably around 60 cmHg, and may vary depending on the material of the inner packaging. Immediately after vacuum treatment, seal the product.

Since the silage feed obtained by the method of the present invention has a shape in which the molded product is enclosed in a bag, it can be further placed in a large bag or packed in several pieces to be used on ships, trucks, etc. It can be easily transported anywhere through the following distribution channels.

In addition, the silage feed obtained by the method of the present invention (4) can be stored for a long period of time, so even if the distribution route is long, it can be stored in warehouses, etc., and is ideal as a form of silage feed. It is.

Next, examples of the present invention will be given.

Example: 150 kg of water hyacinth was dried in the sun, and 105 kg
shall be. Cut this into 2 to 3 ci using an encircle cutter.
Cut into i-position, add 10 kg of blackstrap molasses and 100 g of formic acid,
Mix thoroughly with a mixer. This is pressure-molded using a hydraulic press to form a cylindrical or square prism shape. This material was packed into an inner polyethylene bag and vacuumed for 60 minutes.
The pressure is reduced to about cmHg, the bag opening is sealed, and the product is prepared.

Patent applicant: Ryukyu Sekiyu Co., Ltd. Representative: Moritada Ito (one idiot)

Claims (1)

[Claims] After drying and shredding water hyacinth, carbohydrates and acids are added,
Mix and mold and store in an airtight packaging material bag. A method for producing packaged silage feed characterized by sealing the bag by applying a vacuum inside the bag.