Effects of absorbens supplementation on the fermentation quality of brewers' grains silage

Abstract

In the experiment was the effect of absorbens supplementation on the fermentation quality of brewers´ grains silage by comparing with the untreated control. As effective substance of experimental groups were barleygroats and malt sprouts. The addition of malt sprouts „B“ and barleygroats „C“ in our experiment conditions increased statistically significantly (P<0.01) the content of DM in silage. The addition of malt sprouts decreased pH value in experimental silage (4.29±0.007) in comparison with control silage (4.43±0.049). The malt sprouts increased significantly (P<0.01) the contents of lactic acid (67.15±2.796 g/kg DM), sum of acids (84.30±2.97 g/kg DM) and decreased (P<0.01) in the trial the ethanol content (0.51±0.102 g/kg DM) and acetic acid content (17.15±0.227 g/kg DM). Silage with malt sprouts has the highest (P<0.01) ammonia content from all silages in trial (966,67±33,33 mg/kg DM). The use of absorbens inhibited significantly (P<0.01) in comparison with control silage (without absorbens) the content of propionic and butyric acid production. Brewers´grain silage with malt sprouts and barleygroats addition were free of butyric and propionic acid, but had higher lactic acid content. These results indicate that malt sprouts addition in the ensiling process may improve the fermentation quality of the brewers´grain silage.

Keywords

• silage making
• brewers' grains
• fermentation process
• absorbens
• barleygroats
• malt sprouts