How to Make Quality Pig Feed

How to Make Quality Pig Feed

In order to make pig feed easy to digest and remove harmful and poisonous materials, pig feed should be processed before it fed to the pigs. The main processing methods are grinding, pelletizing by animal feed pellet making machine, extruding, roasting, cooking, fermenting, mashing and ensiling, etc. Here we mainly talk about pig feed pelletizing by ring die animal feed pellet making machine.

In pelletizing process, powdery feed materials are through the steaming, heating and pressure treatment, which can make starch in feed ingredients gelatinized and aged. Researches show that pelletizing process can improve the palatability and digestibility of pig feed, prevent pigs picking feed, and so can reduce waste and improve feed intake rate. Pig feed in pellet form can improve feed efficiency 5-15%. 

Generally speaking, As soon as pig feed pellets are discharged from feed pellet machine, they are sent to feed pellet cooling machine. After cooling process, the moisture content of pig feed pellets is less than 14%, so pig feed pellets are not easy to mildew.

After pelletizing, pig feed in pellet form are small in volume and with high density, so they are easy to transport and store; unlike powdery pig feed, the uniformity of feed ingredients of pig feed pellets can not be broken, so the nutrient value and palatability can be kept.

How to Make Quality Pig Feed by Animal Feed Pellet Making Machine

Now that pig feed made by feed pellet mill has so many advantages, making high quality pig feed pellets is very important. Here are some tips for making quality pig feed pellets by ring die pig feed pellet machine.

Cohesiveness of feed ingredients 

If you want to make pig feed pellets with good appearance, you should add some starch in your feed ingredients. Starch is the most important factor influencing cohesiveness of pig feed pellets. The steam and heat in pelletizing process can make starch gelatinization and thus generate cohesiveness, which can help different feed ingredients bind together. Therefore the more starch, the better cohesiveness. Starch from different sources has different cohesiveness. The cohesiveness of starch in wheat and barley is stronger than that in corn. Due to little fat content, soybean meal has good cohesiveness. 

When making piglet feed pellets by feed pellet machine, if milk powder, whey powder, sugar or glucose is contained in the feed ingredients, feed material will have good cohesiveness too.

Fineness of the feed ingredients after they are ground by feed hammer mill

The smaller the size of ground feed material, the easier the gelatinization of materials, and thus the pig pellets are easier to be formed. Generally speaking, the screen sieve diameter of feed hammer mill is less than 1mm for making pig feed pellets and for making pig feed pellets for weaned piglet, the sieve diameter can be 0.3mm. The pellet diameter of pig feed is from 3cm to 5cm, small pellets for piglets and big pellets for big pigs.

Research studies suggest that feed use efficiency of pig feed pellets made from finely ground materials is higher than feed pellets made from coarsely ground feed material. 

Moisture content, temperature and steam pressure 

Moisture content and temperature are the necessary conditions and important factors for starch gelatinization and cohesiveness. If the moisture content of feed ingredients is higher than 8-10%, the hardness is increased. In a general way, the supply volume of steam is 3-6% of the supply volume of feed material. In this way, the total moisture content can be 16-17%.

If the pelletizing temperature of feed pellet machine is too low, the starch gelatinization is not sufficient so lower the pelletizing effect; if the temperature is too high, the nutrient especially vitamin will loss seriously. The requirement of temperature is not higher than 88 ℃. Temperature can ranges from 82 ℃ to 88 ℃ according to the pellet formation status and the moisture content of feed pellets after cooling. If the pellet formation status is poor and the moisture content is high, temperature can be set higher.

Steam pressure is directly related to moisture content and pelleting temperature; the proper steam pressure will generate good pelleting effect. Commonly, steam pressure is controlled between 394 KPa and 490 KPa. If the steam pressure is high, the supply volume of steam is big and temperature is high too. 

If adopting cold pressing, that is to say, the feed materials are pressed directly form feed pellet mill die to form feed pellets without steam, the finished feed pellets are called raw feed pellets. The feed pellet machine, which is used to make raw feed pellets, is called flat die feed pellet mill and this type of animal feed pellet making machine can be driven by electric motor or diesel engine. However, because raw feed pellets made by flat die pig feed pellet mill do not go through aging process, the pellet formation status is poorer; there are more power in finished pig feed; palatability and feed used efficiency are lower than feed pellets made by ring die pig feed pellet making machine.

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Address :  Donghuan International Plaza, Room 2606,Bldg B, No. 3966, Erhuan East Road, 

         Licheng district, Jinan, Shandong 

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value of sunflower husk pellets

Sunflower Husk Pellets  (SFHP) are made of the scales of sunflower nuts. They are a by-product of sunflower oil extraction process and can be found in big quantities in  sunflower oil factories. Their value as an animal food is very low because of the low content of protein and that is why they are not competing with other animal food products. Big amounts  of sunflower husks are produced in South Russia and in Ukraine. As a biofuel sunflower husk pellets has been successfully used in UK power plants and also in Poland. After Polish government stopped the subsidy for burning   agricultural products  and after in Western Europe co firing has been mainly substituted by wood pellets, importance of sunflower husks has  significantly decreased. But as a biofuel, SFHP can be definitely used in biomass dedicated power plants and also for co firing with coal.

Their NCV is close to the NCV of wood pellets, being 17,-17,6 GJ per mt ,in some cases it may go up to 18,0 GJ per mt. Ash content is on the level of 2,6-3,0% being little bit higher than  the ash  content of Industrial 2 wood pellets. In most of the cases Sulphur content may be slightly higher than 0,2% which is slightly higher than accepted for wood pellets. Durability index (Hard Grove Index) of SFHP is 18,which means they are harder than olive cake (GHI 20), but softer than olive stones and PKS ( HGI 15). 

The biggest problem of SFHP may be their relatively high dust content ( bigger content of the particles below 3,15 mm and  lower mechanical durability).Sometimes the problem of SFHP may be their slightly lower bulk density which may make the inland transportation after unloading more expensive.

Sometimes particle size inside the pellets may be bigger than in wood pellets.

Otherwise as a biofuel  SFHP  are most close to wood pellets, which makes them one of the best biomass options. SFHP produced in Russia are more often dusty and have lower bulk density. Ukranian pellets are usually of higher quality. SFHP are  transported by hopper railway wagons trough Byelorussia and Latvia or Lithuania. To the end users pellets are transported by sea vessels. There  is also a possibility to deliver SFHP directly  by sea vessels from South Russia, in these cases pellets  are loaded on the vessels in Azov sea ports.

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ingredients of animal feed

Ingredients

One of the challenges for the homesteader making her own feeds is finding high-quality primary ingredients close by, at a reasonable price. I encourage like-minded homesteaders to band together, sharing orders and delivery chores. Such co-ops are especially desirable if they expand to include local farmers willing to grow specifically to meet their needs. In such arrangements the greatest obstacle, typically, is that of storage. Go on, try it—you need a challenge to your creativity.

Premix:

• Aragonite
• Nutri-Balancer
• Salt
• Kelp
• Probiotic
• Fish meal
• Crab meal
• Cultured yeast
• Flax seed

Grind/Whole Portion:

• Alfalfa pellets
• Corn
• Peas
• Wheat
• Oats
• Barley

Aragonite

Mined from mineral deposits. High in calcium, needed by the hens for good shell quality. “Feeding limestone” can be used interchangeably. Note that hens on pasture have less need for such supplementation, but it can always be added for “insurance.”

Nutri-Balancer

Fertrell’s broad-spectrum mineral supplement, now in an organic-certified formulation. Though I’ve used it for years, more and more I question its necessity. I am feeding the highest quality natural foods I can buy. If in addition the birds are getting plenty of enzymes from green forage and (in summer) insect food—all of which help achieve a more complete absorption of the minerals in the diet—why am I spoon-feeding them basically non-food mineral supplements, however natural? I am experimenting with a gradual reduction of mineral supplementation, other than that of kelp and salt.

Salt

An essential nutrient for chickens, but usually supplied in sufficient quantity in commercial mixes or a supplement like Nutri-Balancer. I am currently using a high quality livestock feeding salt that includes many trace minerals in addition to sodium chloride.

Kelp

Dried seaweed meal from the coast of Iceland or Maine, an excellent natural source of minerals. [Note that someone recently told me that kelp is not being harvested sustainably off the Maine coast. If some of you can point me to good information on this subject, I will post more about it.]

Probiotic

Live cultures added in very small amounts as a supplement to boost the flora in the gut, making it theoretically more efficient. This is another area where the science has been formulated with reference to a seriously flawed paradigm: chickens in high confinement without green forage or live animal foods, eating instead stale feeds based on highly questionable ingredients, birds with compromised genetics to begin with—well, duh, perhaps the digestive tracts of such birds need as serious a boost as we can provide them. But birds eating more natural foods are likely to have more healthy, abundant, and diverse intestinal flora to begin with, and perhaps need little additional boost from us. I no longer use probiotic supplements. [Incidentally, I recently met someone online who is feeding her birds raw milk cultured with kefir, as a part of her flock’s daily diet. Probably her birds get far more benefit from the cultures in that milk than those receiving a commercial probiotic. If you have access to high quality farm milk or its byproducts (skimmed milk, whey), by all means experiment with culturing it and offering it to your flock.]

Fish meal

Dried, ground menhaden, a species taken in quantity by commercial fishers, but not valued as a human food species, so converted to a potent protein supplement (60 percent protein). Most people I know who are making their own feeds do use fish meal—it’s hard to make feeds that are high enough in protein without it (at least if you want to avoid highly refined/processed alternatives like pure lysine from corn)—especially for growing birds, whose protein needs are higher than for mature fowl. Also, eating fishmeal, like eating insects, boosts the Omega 3 content of egg yolks. However, I am increasingly uneasy over the question: How sustainable is turning countless thousands of tons of fish into feed supplements? Furthermore, though a potent source of protein as said, fishmeal is not a fresh, live food, so will never be as good a food as possible alternatives which the homesteader or small farmer is in a position to supply, especially in the warm season. (I explore some of those alternatives in “Feeding the Flock from the Homestead's Own Resources”.)

Crab meal

Dried, crushed shells from commercial processing of crab meat, a good source of protein (about 25 percent or so), and of needed minerals like calcium. Though a good source of selenium as well (an essential trace mineral in which many of the nation’s soils tend to be deficient), it should for that very reason be fed in modest amounts: Selenium is one of those vital minerals needed in trace amounts, which actually become toxic at greater concentrations. I limit crab meal to 1-½ lb per hundredweight of feed. [Kelp also boosts selenium, incidentally, both as feed supplement and as addition to soil.]

Cultured yeast

Supplements not only protein (18 percent) but a number of minerals and vitamins, especially the B complex. It is particularly useful for waterfowl, whose needs for B vitamins, and especially niacin, are greater than for chickens. Contains live cell yeast cultures which become active in the gut. Together with digestive enzymes in the dried yeast, the live cultures enhance feed digestion.

Flax seed

Flax has become something of a buzz word because it boosts Omega 3 fatty acids in egg yolks (as does eating live animal foods such as earthworms and insects). In our modern diet we tend to get far too much Omega 6 in proportion to Omega 3, thus any way to get them into better balance is desirable. I only feed flax seed whole. Flax oil is highly perishable (i.e., goes stale/rancid readily when exposed to oxygen), so feeding flax meal is in my judgment not a good idea. It is important that the birds have free access to grit if you feed flax seeds, which are small and hard.

Alfalfa meal

I start with 100 percent alfalfa pellets (17 percent protein), the kind fed to rabbits and horses. The chickens resist eating the pellets whole, so I grind, along with the corn and peas. I include alfalfa only in the winter, when green forages are less available.

Corn

A high-energy feedstuff which I store whole and grind as needed.

Peas

I no longer use any soybean in my feeds. I can’t get into a long discussion on the subject here, but there are schools of thought I am influenced by [if interested, check out “Soy Alert!” on the Weston A. Price Foundation website to get you started] that find use of soy highly problematic, starting certainly with humans, emphatically for ruminants, though I am not as sure about avian species. Anyway, I haven’t fed any soybean since being able to substitute with what my supplier calls “field peas” (Pisum arvense, a relative of the garden pea, Pisum sativum). Peas of the Vigna group such as cowpeas can also be used if you can get them in quantity. I store the peas whole until ready to make feed, then grind coarsley along with the corn.

As for soybeans. . .

At one time farmers grew many different legumes to feed livestock. Following the “soybean revolution,” however, soybeans are typically the only feed legume available in most areas. If you only have access to soybeans for your feeds, remember a few important points. Whole soybeans are the best option if you can get them, but make sure they are roasted. Never feed raw soybeans to any livestock—they contain growth-inhibiting factors which are a disaster for the animals who eat them. From commercial sources, the typical form of soy available is soybean meal as a byproduct of processing soy oil. Not only can such meals contain residues of hexane (a solvent used to extract the oil), but the high heat and pressure of the processing rancidifies whatever fats remain—that is, soybean meal is a stale feed. Finally, most soybean in the American market today is genetically modified, a fact deeply troubling to many thoughtful homesteaders.

Wheat, oats, and barley

The small grains I never grind—just weigh them out and stir in when I’m grinding and making the mix. If I could get other small grains I would use them as well—probably the greater the diversity of feed ingredients, the better. [Note regarding oats and barley: Do not feed at greater than 15 percent of the total diet, either individually or in combination.] During much of the year I hold the small grain portions out and sprout them prior to feeding.

Oyster shell and grit

Though not listed in my sample formulations, remember your birds’ needs for grit in the gizzard to grind their feed, and for oyster shell as an additional boost of calcium and other minerals needed for strong egg shells. When the birds are on pasture they usually get enough grit and mineral on their own. In the winter house, however, it is wise to offer them free choice.

from http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/making-poultry-feeds-2.html

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Technical Item	Parameters
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Conditioner Power (kw)	5.5
Feeder Power(kw)	1.5
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 4.Feed Pellet Samples

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 FAQ

1. Q: Are you a trading company or a manufacturer? 

A: We are a manufacturer, which has almost 10 years of experience in this industry and be able 

to offer you the best price.

2. Q: How can I get to your company?A: You can get a flight to Jinan Airport. We are just about 1 hours away from Jinan Airport.

3. Q: How long is your warranty period? 

A: One Year (Calculated from the equipment arrives the customer’s side. 

4. Q: Will you send engineers to install the plant? 

A: yes, but at an extra cost payable by the customer. Or you can get local contractors to do the 

commissioning and we send one supervising engineer. 

5. Q: Have you sold your products to Europe? 

A: Yes, We have designed and installed more than 1000 turnkey pellet lines. Many of our 

customers are from Europe, including Latvia, France, Greece, Romania, Lithuania, etc.

 Welcome to visit our website http://www.shpelletmill.com