How to Use Corn/Maize or Sorghum or Millet Seeds to Grow Hydroponic Fodder

The third question is basically about seeds we have done our our video based on wheat or barley and some of you have been asking about Barley and saying it's not available in your countries so today we would like to show you some of the seeds that you can use and basically what most livestock need okay most livestock in terms of crude protein have a certain range of protein that they need which is between 15% to 25% CRUDE PROTEIN now this been the recommended range we know that if you fall below 15% then here you have less production and if you give your livestock more than 25% again you have less production the excess proteins are not absorbed in the body they are excreted through urine so it is best to know that most livestock do not need a crude protein above 25% if you feed above 25% thinking that you'll get more production what you actually get is less so of the seeds that we have here we have soya which has a crude protein of 45% again these are data that we have collected from the lab so we acknowledge that some some of these results might be different depending on the the way you carry your analysis the method which you use but we are talking from our experience so soya is a 45 percent then the barley seeds after growing hydroponically have a 23 percent crude protein for wheat it's 19% for oats is 21% for sorghum is 12% for maize or corn 6% millet is 11% so knowing that most people cannot access either barley, wheat or oats it is best if you have different options and today we are going to pursue three options which you can use to understand how you can mix some of these seeds or hydroponic fodder grown from the seeds that might be locally available for you and how you can use the Pearson's Square to mix two seeds so that you achieve what you need so basically you will need to grow, say its sorghum you'll need to grow sorghum separately and then say if it's millet you'll need to grow it separately so today we are going to look at three scenarios first we are going to look at sorghum and maize then we are going to look at maize and millet then we are going to look at Sorghum and millet and then we are going to see after growing hydroponic fodder, how many parts of each will you need so the most important thing is after you check on this you need to place the percentages of the different cereals so for sorghum it's 12% for maize it's six percent so we can start with this one here the way the way the calculation on the Pearson square is done is you use the largest number along the diagonal to get the result here so in this case between 12 and 20, 20 minus 12 you subtract 12 from 20 you get eight parts okay I'm gonna put this away fast so you get eight parts and twenty minus six or six subtracted from twenty these fourteen parts so these for you to use sorghum and maize fodder you will need 14 parts of sorghum and eight parts of maize that's how you do it so in this case we have maize and millet so this one is 6% this is 11% so it will be you subtract 11 from 20 it will be nine parts nine part of maize and then you subtract six from twenty you get fourteen parts of millet so in this case if you had sorghum if you have sorghum here so, Sorghum is 12% millet is 11% so it is to say 20 minus 12 is 8 parts 8 parts of millet and 20-11 is nine parts of Sorghum I have just, you know, I have just decided to take examples of these because in Africa most people write to us and say that they have access to maize(corn), millet and sorghum so depending on what cereal is available to you and the cost which you have to undergo to acquire it we would like you to we would like to introduce you to Pearson's Square yeah so basically that's how you can use some of these cereals to get the desired result so for example all your livestock need a hundred kilograms of hydroponic fodder so when you have say this on your table and you're saying you need nine parts of maize and 14 parts of millet so what you are going to do is to know that for you to produce means you need nine parts out of 9+14 is 23 multipled by 100 kgs okay and then for millet how many kgs you need to produce to be able to feed your livestock is basically fourteen parts out of 23 which is the whole multiplied by a hundred kgs in order to know how many kilos of millet and how many kilos of maize you need to produce so from my small calculator so this one will need 39 kgs and of course this one will need 61 kgs so basically I just hope you're not confused by all these multiplication signs but I'm sure by now you see so after you get this then you need now to come to this nine out of nine plus 14 which is 23 multiplied by 100 you get 39 kgs and then for millet to do the same and you able to calculate as simple as that

Channel: GRANDEUR AFRICA

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Keywords: Hydroponics in Kenya, Hydroponics, Hydroponic Fodder in Kenya, Hydroponic Fodder in Africa, Hydroponics in Africa, Hydroponic Farming in Kenya, Hydroponic Farming in Africa, Hydroponic Fodder Farming, HydroponicFodder farming in Kenya, Cows, Goats, Sheep, Rabbits, Chicken, Pigs

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Length: 9min 9sec (549 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 03 2020