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The Feeding Value of Oat Feed for Dairy Cows^*

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

The feeding value of oat feed, a by-product of the preparation of table cereals from oats (defined¹ as oat hulls, usually reground, oat shorts and oat middlings obtained in the first hulling of the oats) has been much discussed, and but little studied.

The analysis² of oat feed compares with that of timothy hay, wheat bran, and hominy feed as follows:

The fiber and total digestible nutrients content of oat feed are a little lower than those of timothy hay while the digestible crude protein content is a little higher. On this basis it is reasoned that the feeding value of the two feeds is about the same. In the general way, such an inference seems reasonable until experimental evidence is available.

A feeding trial with dairy cows at Massachusetts³ indicated that oat feed was "slightly superior" to timothy and mixed grass hay when replacing about one-third of the hay component of the ration for milking cows.

^* The work was supervised by the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station through an assistant on an industrial fellowship basis. The experiments were conducted at Monona Farm, owned and operated by a subsidiary of the Quaker Oats Company.