Using leftover milk and milk products as farm animal feed

If you have leftover milk or milk products that aren’t intended for human consumption at a dairy, creamery, shop or food manufacturing business, you can use them in farm animal feed as follows:

Processed milk or milk products tend to be one of many ingredients in a compound feed product.

Unprocessed milk or milk products tend to be fed directly to animals. For example leftover whey from a dairy might be fed to pigs on a farm.

Products such as cakes, where dairy products are only a small part of the product, are not covered by this guidance.

What milk and milk products you can use in farm animal feed

The following milk and milk products can be processed for use in feed products for general sale, or sent to farms unprocessed:

White water (water used to clean dairy equipment) can only be sent to farms unprocessed. It can’t be processed for use in feed products for general sale.

The following milk and milk products can’t be used in any type of farm animal feed:

If classical scrapie is confirmed in a sheep flock or goat herd, you may not be able to use milk from the flock in feed for ruminants (cud-chewing mammals such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer).

How to process milk and milk products for use in farm animal feed for general sale