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The Use of Oat Feed as the Entire Ration for Horses at Light to Medium Work

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

In the manufacture of table oat meal a large part of the oat grain is milled off as oat feed. Oat hulls constitute 85–90 per cent of this by-product and oat shorts and oat middlings the rest. After further grinding, oat feed, also called "oat mill feed", is marketed as such or as an ingredient of commercial mixed feeds. The guaranteed analysis of oat feed is "not less than 5 per cent protein and not more than 30 per cent fiber."

The Quaker Oats Company in 1926 in cooperation with the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, initiated an extensive study of the feeding value of oat feed. The project is under the direction of G. Bohstedt of the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture. The Company provides the facilities including the animals, a 210 acre farm (Monona Farm), and the funds to employ two research workers as Industrial Fellows.¹