Walls and floors of storage areas should be sprayed with 'Actellic' and the walls lined with clean polythene - pay particular attention to corners. Caustic Grain must not be mixed with other feeds prior to storage. Stored for long periods of time, Caustic Grain dries out. It should be moistened before feeding - either by water or by moist feeds such as brewer's grains, draff or wet grass silage. For dairy cows, up to 4kg per day of soda grain is generally recommended, although higher levels may be fed where high total dry matter intakes are expected.
Caustic Grain can provide all the supplementary cereal in silage-based rations for beef cattle.
Physical Properties Solid Caustic Soda is supplied in the form of colourless pellets, pearls, flakes or powder. It has the chemical name Sodium Hydroxide . It is now well accepted that the highly productive ruminant has a protein requirement in excess of its capacity to produce microbial protein in the rumen. The quality aspect is important since DUP should be able to complement the amino acid profile of microbial protein. Sopralin will satisfy these requirements .