Division Permitted types of feed

The animals are mainly fed fresh grass, leguminous plants and foliage during the ‘green-feeding period’, and hay in the winter period.

The following are included and permitted as further roughage: green rapeseed, green maize, green rye and fodder beets, as well as hay, lucerne and maize pellets and similar types of feed.

Roughage must make up at least 75 % of the yearly ration of dry feed.

The following cereal crops are also permitted, in their conventional marketed form and in composites with bran, pellets, etc.: wheat, barley, oats, triticale, rye and maize.

The following may also be used as feed: beans, field peas, lupins, oleaginous fruits, and extraction meal or cakes.