The water consumption in producing forage to nourish ten animals in its three
different stages is two to three liters of water for every produced kilogram of HGF
(Izquierdo and Figueroa, 2002). In contrast, with the traditional method 15 to 20 liters of
water per kilogram of dry matter would be needed to produce HGF.
For this experiment, we tested 10 animals with the following stages: