The scientific name of alfalfa is Medicago sativa. It belongs to the legume family and it is a common raw material for making fodder pellets. Alfalfa is a high yield crop which is also particularly resistant to drought. It is now seen as the most popular and productive legume hay. In fact, it is the only forage pellets that is made and sold in every country.
Why Choose Alfalfa for Making Feed Pellets?
Alfalfa hay is the forage plant par excellence. It has great nutritional properties which makes it the perfect choice for making animal feed pellets.
High in nutrients: Alfalfa is an excellent source of vegetable protein, energy, vitamins, and minerals for animals including horse, pig and poultry. Besides, it is also rich in many other nutrients such as magnesium, molybdenum, sulfur, boron, calcium, potassium and phosphorus, etc. All these nutrients are good for animal healthy.
Rich in fiber: For ruminant animals, the fiber in alfalfa is fermentable by the large intestine and their digestibility can be highly improved in this way. The intake of fiber in animal feed is based on the particle size of the feed pellets.
Good for animals’ health: It is found that alfalfa has buffering effects on stomach acid, helping to reduce the incidence and and severity of gastric ulcers.
If you want to feed your animal with Alfalfa Pellets, there are two things to consider: Firstly change over to it gradually, and secondly try to limit it at first because its tastiness might lead to overeat. As a side benefit, alfalfa hay pellets are great ways to add water into forage as pellets can be soaked before feeding.
Drawbacks of Making Feed Pellets from Alfalfa
Alfalfa does provide a large amount of calories. However, if don’t burn the calories by taking exercise, it could result in weight gain. And gaining weight might be bad for some animal such as race-horse.
Because of its high calcium content, when making alfalfa pellets, it is necessary to keep an eye on the calcium-phosphorous ratio in the raw material mixture.
Alfalfa pellet mill can help you make dehydrated alfalfa hay into pellets or granules easily. Generally, the diameter of alfalfa pellets is made to be 6-8mm. Dehydrated alfalfa granules are ideal fodder for rabbits, ostriches, goats, pigs, sheep…
Why making alfalfa feed pellets?Pellets form can largely reduce transport costs;
Make animal feeding easier and cleaner;
Enables the distribution of a protein food as a concentrate.
Shandong Double Crane Machinery Manufacture Co.,Ltd. is the professional manufacturer of all kinds of feed pellet machine, including feed hammer mill, feed mixer, ring die pellet mill and feed pellet cooler.
For making alfalfa feed pellets, we have small flat die pellet mill and ring die pellet mill for your choice.
The production process is as follows:
dryer to dry the crushed alfalfa if the water content is too high
pellet mill to make feed pellets(the choice of the pellet machine depends largely on the capacity)
feed pellet cooler to cool the pellets into room temperature
package scale to pack the pellets into bags.
If you are interested in our alfalfa feed pellet machine or alfalfa feed pellet line, please contact catherine@sdshuanghe.com or visit our website http://www.shpelletmill.com.
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