Why can't fresh wheat chaff be fed directly to livestock?

@#@245@#@After the wheat is harvested in wheat-producing areas, large livestock have fresh wheat chaff to eat. Many farmers are accustomed to feeding fresh wheat chaff directly to livestock, but this feeding method is not good. Because when livestock eat untreated fresh wheat chaff, the oral mucosa is often punctured by wheat awns, causing stomatitis.

After livestock develop stomatitis, they want to eat but refuse food; they take feed into their mouths but dare not chew, or after chewing a few times they spit the feed back out; white turbid mucus continuously flows from the mouth; in the oral cavity, wheat awns can be seen stuck all over the tooth roots and the base of the tongue.

The best way to prevent stomatitis is to alkalize the fresh wheat chaff before feeding it. Treatment method: soak the fresh wheat chaff in 3‰ quicklime water. The amount of lime water depends on the amount of wheat chaff, generally just enough to submerge the wheat chaff; after soaking for 30 minutes, scoop it out and pile it on a wooden board or cement floor to let it sweat, so that the fresh wheat chaff is alkalized and softened, then rinse it clean with clear water and it can be fed. This not only prevents livestock stomatitis, but also improves palatability, so the livestock love to eat it, and it also increases the calcium content of the feed, making them less likely to suffer from osteomalacia.

Once this disease occurs, first thoroughly remove the wheat awns in the oral cavity, then rinse the oral cavity with clear water to prevent infection. Then treat with the following methods: 1. Apply calcined gypsum powder to the affected area, 3 times a day, for 3 consecutive days; 2. Mix rapeseed stalk ash with sesame oil and apply to the affected area, the effect is very good; 3. Mix hemp stalk ash with honey and apply to the affected area; 4. Apply 1% methyl violet solution to the affected area; 5. Apply 1% sulfonamide glycerol emulsion to the oral cavity, 3 times a day, for 3 consecutive days, and it will heal.