What is the ideal pH, protein and moisture content required for such silage to be used as animal feed? What could be the potential toxic stuffs that could be present in silage?
Look for e.g. fish silage on the web and you will find numerous hits including an FAO report.
http://www.fao.org/3/x5937e/x5937e01.htm
http://www.fao.org/docrep/v4440t/v4440T0d.htm
Thanks a lot @Amandeep Singh. My objective here is to see silage production a solution to waste disposal (fish offal). Does treatment with acidic catalysts at high pressure make the raw material infection free? Can the wet silage be blended with other carbohydrate feed to enrich with proteins?
Do let me know regarding its feasibility
(The production time of my process (fish pritein hydrolysate) is 15-40 minutes.
@Amandeep Singh. Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestions. What do you still think about it's acceptance in the market?
I think the much difficulty involved in making silage using animal offals would be putrefaction and rancidity owing to the fact that they contain high quantities of protein and fat. To achieve good results, a high carbohydrate source must be added to achieve fermentation and reduce the pH to preserve the silage . If this is not done, then we will rather end up with large quantities of lysosomal enzymes in the product which could rather be toxic both to man and livestock.
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