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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