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Tsunami - Sprouted Fodder Production Technology
Not only does water mean life for humans, but for animals as well. With severe drought conditions occurring throughout many regions of the world these days, the impact runs deeper than not having a drink of water. Without an adequate supply of water, millions of livestock are at risk of disease outbreak, lack of animal feed and eventually death. When herdsmen lose their livestock, the result is economically devastating for entire villages and towns. This in turn increases pressure for governments and outside support organizations to send aid packages in hope to slow the impact.
Tsunami Products has created a solution to help alleviate some of this problem. Our water production units used in conjunction with a Tsunami-Fodder system provide almost immediate results. Within 7 days of startup, fresh fodder — animal feed — can be fed directly to animals.
Fodder is a name used to define fresh or semi-fresh feed stock for animals. Fodder typically has more nutrition available when the animal ingests it — as compared to dry feed sources such as grains, hay or straw. Decades ago, farmers learned that fodder and silage could carry the animals through periods of drought, and longer-than-usual winters.
Until recently, fodder was rarely used because of the availability of other kinds of feeds. Pastures were usually sufficient for livestock grazing throughout most of the year. Gradually, because of climate change and increased drought, grazing has been diminishing — worldwide. Huge losses of livestock have been occurring at an alarming rate, especially in less developed areas. Fortunately, through much recent research in hydroponics, fodder systems have reemerged on the agriculture horizon. The Tsunami Fodder system has been designed to help bridge the issue of scarcity of animal feed and fresh water. Not only does our system produce ready-to-consume animal feed, but water for the animals as well.
Grains, by nature, already contain extremely condensed nutrition. This nutrition is present so that the seed can survive and grow during the germination process. During the first 6-7 days of germination, there are chemicals, minerals, enzymes, proteins, carbohydrates and fats being released so that after the seed is ready to send root stock into the soil, it can self-feed until it uptakes nutrition from the soil. It is during this stage of growth that animals can also benefit from these same nutrients. If the grain/seed is ingested before the seed is germinated, it only delivers a small percentage (23-26%) of nutrition to the animal during digestion. After germination, however, the nutritional value increases to as much as 73%.