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When DDGS is added to animal feeds that are properly formulated, it provides excellent animal health, performance and food product quality. These attributes, and others, have made distillers grains one of the most popular feed ingredients to use in animal feeds around the world.
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What are Dry Distillers’ Grains?
DDGS Feed - Insect Applications
Distillers grains are a cereal byproduct of the distillation process. It is an excellent high protein grain food that can be used for various feed applications. Below are doable feed applications.
| Insect | DDGS for Feed |
|---|---|
| Crickets | are omnivorous, meaning they eat both plants and animals depending on what's available to them. Leafy vegetables such as cabbage and lettuce, fruits like apples and grains like (DDGS) cereals and bread are all healthy choices your crickets will love. What do Crickets Eat? www.whatdocricketseat.info/ |
| Mealworms | can be found throughout most of the world. They are burrowing eating machines and will feast upon grains (DDGS), vegetation, spoiled food, and many other types of fresh or decaying organic matter. Mealworm Care, Information, Facts & Pictures https://mealwormcare.org/ |
| Dubia Roaches | don't need much food and they eat almost anything. In addition to “people food" like sweets, fats, cheese, meats, nuts, and (DDGS) grains but, be cautious with to much protein. Dubia Roach Care Sheet | BY DRD https://dubiaroachdepot.com/guidance/dubia-roach-care-sheet. |
We have but scratched the surface of feed and other application of DDGS.
Our application for DDGS is insects.
Our experience with mealworms: it makes excellent substrate bedding feed, is easy to sift out pupae, chaff and separate beetles. Plus, it's slow to mold even with slightly wet water vegetation or fruit. Once shifted clean may be used a second time. We have yet to experiment with crickets however, we believe it would be a great low-cost feed for them. Please let us know of your insect experiences, here or on our FaceBook or BeyondGanics YouTube channel.
