livestock feed pellets processing technology

Livestock, cattle, sheep, cow, pig, camel, deer, rabbit, Alpaca, etc. is raised by people for meat, eggs, milk, leather, fur, and wool. Many of these livestock animals can be fed with feed pellets, as feed pellets have higher nutrition density, more comprehensive nutrition, higher economic benefits (animals can digest, absorb and conserve better) and are easier to store and transport than traditional roughage (coarse fodder).

Now, more and more farmers are aware of the benefits of animal feed pellets and tend to make their own livestock feed pellets or buy feed pellets from the market. And, setting up a feed pellet production plant to produce high quality livestock feed pellets has been popular project in breeding industry in many countries, Brazil, United States, China, European Union, Argentina, Australia, Russia, Mexico, Uruguary, Egypt, Ukraine, etc.. Therefore, starting livestock feed pellet manufacturing business has been a great choice for many investors or farmers to gain long-term profits. 

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Fude Machinery has been committed to providing customers with a comprehensive plan for feed pellet production. We provide full consulting services to help our clients realize their vision of rapid development. Our services include: project evaluation, technical consultation, plant design, equipment manufacturing, installation and commissioning, worker training and other after-sales services.

If you have plan to make feed pellets for your cattle/cow, sheep/goat, pig and others, just contact us directly! Our customized plan for feed pellet production definitely can help you reduce the investment cost and ensure the production efficiency!

Livestock Feed Pellets Processing Technology

The following processing procedures are complete technical process for livestock feed pellet production, but not all procedures are required in practical production. The exact feed pellet manufacturing process are strictly designed by combining requirements of feed pellets, investment cost, capacity and more. 

Establishing a livestock feed pellet production line for commercial uses requires a series of processes and a series of feed processing equipment. And the design of the feed manufacturing process will decide the feed pellet machine and other auxiliary equipment. When deciding to build your own feed pellet mill plant for cattle, goat, pig and more, just remember choosing a reliable manufacturer of feed pellet machines can help you to save money and time. For detailed machine price and parameters, please contact us directly!

• Raw Material Reception and Storage

Livestock feed raw materials vary, they include: long material like crop straw, grains like wheat, maize, and others like oil cake/meal, additives, etc. different raw materials have different storage methods. For example, in complete feed pellet line of large capacity, storage silo is necessary for storing maize, wheat, and other grains.

• Feed Material Cleaning

The impurities in feed raw materials not only affect the quality of feed pellet products, but also directly relate to the feed processing machines and personal safety. In serious case, the whole equipment can be destroyed, which impacts the smooth progress of the feed production, so the impurities must be removed in time. The cleaning equipment of the feed pellet production line is based on screening and magnetic separation equipment. Screening equipment is used to remove large and long impurities such as stones, mud blocks and sacks. The magnetic separator is mainly used to remove iron impurities.

• Feed Material Batching/Proportioning Process

At present, the commonly used batching processes include manual batching, volumetric batching, one warehouse one scale batching, etc. Manual batching is mostly utilized in small feed pellet plant and medium scale feed pellet factory (capacity 1-15T/h). In this batching technology, all feed materials are weighed manually by workers and poured into the mixing machine. As the whole process like measuring and proportioning is all operated by manpower, it needs less equipment investment and low production cost, and has flexible and precise measuring.

• Feed Mixing Process

There are 2 feed mixing methods: batch mixing and continuous mixing. Batch mixing is to blend all the components together according to the proportion of the formula, and mix them in the periodically running “batch mixer”. This mixing method is convenient for replacing feed formula, and the intermixing between each batch is less, so batch mixing is commonly applied at present. However, as the start and stop operation is complex, the automatic program control is mostly used.

The continuous mixing process is a continuous measurement of all kinds of feed components at the same time respectively and proportionately matched to a stream containing various feed components. When the stream enters a continuous mixer, it is mixed continuously into a uniform flow of material. The advantage of this process is that it can be carried out continuously, easily with comminution and granulation, so the production does not need to operate frequently. but when changing feed formula, the adjustment of the flow is more troublesome and the material residue in the continuous conveying and continuous mixing equipment is more, so the intermixing problem between the two batches of feed is more serious.

Classification of Livestock Feed Pellets

Generally livestock feed pellets have 4 kinds: pure forage (grass) feed pellets, complete diet feed pellets, concentrated feed pellets and premix feed pellets.

• Pure forage (grass) feed pellet is a feed pellet that only makes from grass, hay, grain straw, stalk, alfalfa, etc. It is the easily making feed pellets for livestock farm.
• Complete feed pellet is composed of four parts: protein feed (such as fish meal, bean and its oil cake/meal, etc.), energy feed (such as corn, wheat bran, etc.), coarse feed (also known as roughage, is composed of corn stalk, wheat straw, pasture, vinasse, etc.) and additives (like vitamins, microelements, salt, minaral feed, bone powder, etc.). By feeding livestock animals with complete feed pellets, you do not need to feed them other forage water. That’s why it is called “complete”.
• Concentrated feed pellet is composed of energy feed, protein feed, mineral feed and some feed additives, and is mainly suitable for feeding herbivores such as cattle, sheep and rabbits. Concentrate feed pellet is to supplement herbivorous animals which are based on coarse feed, green fodder and silage, so it is also called concentrate supplement feed, or mixed concentrate feed. This kind of feed has incomplete nutrition, so it is only a portion of animal feed to supplement the nutrition that livestock lacks by only eating forage grass or silage feed pellets.
• Premix feed pellet, whose full name is feed additive premix, refers to the feed pellets that are mainly composed of feed additives. There are mainly 3 kinds of feed additives: nutritive additives (including trace elements, vitamins, amino acids), drug additives (mainly for preventing disease and promoting length), and general additives (such as various kinds, such as mildew proof and incense enhancer, etc.). It is only produced by feed pellet manufacturing factories. Besides, premix feed pellet is only added 1%-6% in livestock daily feed according to animal species and growth stage.

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