In Michigan this is not that unusual. I worked in the fertilizer industry as an agronomist. I have routinely seen animals fed cereal (Kellogg's and Post are headquartered here), day old bread and even cupcakes.
As long as the overall ration is balanced it doesn't make a difference in the final product.
FWIW I bought my dad (who was a feed salesman) a TI programmable calculator in the seventies that used magnetic strips to run programs and wrote him a feed balancing ration program. Far as we know he was the only one in the world at the time who had a hand held ration balancer!
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In Michigan this is not that unusual. I worked in the fertilizer industry as an agronomist. I have routinely seen animals fed cereal (Kellogg's and Post are headquartered here), day old bread and even cupcakes.
As long as the overall ration is balanced it doesn't make a difference in the final product.
http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/compute/balance.htm
FWIW I bought my dad (who was a feed salesman) a TI programmable calculator in the seventies that used magnetic strips to run programs and wrote him a feed balancing ration program. Far as we know he was the only one in the world at the time who had a hand held ration balancer!