mgable
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I am doing a partial mash and was wondering what I could do with the spent grains other than just tossing them out. My sister has horses as was wondering if the geains are o.k. or good to give to horses?
budbo said:No Idea about horses, My spent grains go to the lawn.. They are an awesome fertilizer and don't stink like cow Poop!
Absolutely. I give my spent grains to my buddy's horses every time I brew. When we have our annual Brewout on New Year's Day, all of the grains go next door to the horses by the wheel-barrow full.mgable said:I am doing a partial mash and was wondering what I could do with the spent grains other than just tossing them out. My sister has horses as was wondering if the geains are o.k. or good to give to horses?
No I don't, I'm too lazy for that, I use a strainer spoon and just spread them out over the yard, they usually dry out fast in the summer and get worked in next time I mow, In winter they are gone after the first good rain/snow.interesting. do you compost first? do the residual sugars attract pests?
My batches average 8-12# of grain, I usually start right after I start the boil and am finished with Mashtun cleaned and put away in 15 min.. Once I got my technique down it takes under 10 min to spread 12#I'd love to spread mine out on the lawn, but wet grain doesn't work well in a spreader, and hand dispensing almost 20lb of wet grain by hand doesn't sound feasible either.
budbo said:My batches average 8-12# of grain, I usually start right after I start the boil and am finished with Mashtun cleaned and put away in 15 min.. Once I got my technique down it takes under 10 min to spread 12#
Like I said. Coors processes it for cattle feed. There must be something left in it that is nutritional. If you were a cow wouldn't you like to eat spent grain from Coors lite?rfidd said:I would think that the livestock would probably eat it, but they won't be getting much nutritional value from it cause you are extracting the carbohydrates, (the calories) from it.
Maybe you could market a low carbohydrate, high fiber livestock food for the obese American pets?
Rick
Slotted spoon, heaping spoonfull once it drains fling it like throwing a slider, it fans out on the lawn and separates pretty well. Where it does clump I blast it with a spray nozzel. No spreader don't really need to, I'm not concerned about making it even, the mower spreads it further after it dries.Well do tell, whats your tech? Do you just scoop it out and shake it out? Do you use a spreader?
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