A balanced diet allows for healthy livestock with high growth and productivity rates. This, in turn, leads to improved end product quality, increased profits, and reduced losses and costs. Therefore, it is crucial to pay special attention to feed selection.
How to provide a farm with high-quality feed?
At certain stages of their lives, livestock require a specific feed composition. It's easier and more efficient to produce feed yourself, tailored to individual needs and in the required quantities. In this case, it's worth considering purchasing a mini feed mill. This equipment allows you to produce feed yourself, both for use on your farm and for sale.
This mini-mill includes high-performance equipment capable of producing up to 1.5 tons of feed per hour. Other advantages of the mini-mill include:
- Allows you to save time, effort and moneyFirstly, it reduces feed purchasing costs. Suppliers of finished products already mark up prices, and when purchasing branded products, the manufacturer adds a markup for the brand name. By producing in-house, the cost of feed will be much lower.
Secondly, the equipment complex provides the ability to quickly prepare feed (the mixing level reaches 95-98% in just 2-4 minutes) and strictly according to needs.
Thirdly, with a good diet, fattening occurs faster. - Provides the opportunity to obtain high-quality feedThe feed composition can be customized at any time. The equipment even works with wet raw materials (ground meat and bone, brewer's grains, etc.). Vitamin and mineral supplements, as well as oils and other liquid components, can be added if needed. The resulting feed and premixes are high-quality and well-mixed.
- Does not require staff. The equipment is easy to operate and maintain. It's quite possible to handle the entire job with just one partner. Using the mini-plant is generally straightforward and doesn't take up much space. It can be used both on a personal farm and in a business.
The operating principle of a mini-plant for the production of compound feed
This equipment complex consists of the following main units:
- Pneumatic crusherThis unit operates quite quickly and crushes grain into a fine fraction. The device feeds grain by suction (like a vacuum cleaner), eliminating the need for augers to transport the material to the crusher.
- Horizontal mixerIt has several advantages: the ingredients do not separate, and they mix quickly and efficiently. Almost all of the finished feed is discharged, leaving no residue in the mixer.
A rotor with hammers mounted on it is installed inside the crusher. An inlet and outlet pipeline are connected to the crusher. When the rotor rotates, a vacuum is created in the pipeline. This draws the raw material through the inlet pipe and into the crusher itself. There, the grain is crushed by hammers and fed through the outlet pipeline to the mixer, where all the components are mixed.
- ✓ The moisture level of raw materials should not exceed 14% to prevent mold.
- ✓ The protein content in grains must be at least 12% to ensure animal growth.
The feedstock used includes grain (barley, oats, wheat, rye, millet, sorghum), corn, peas, and waste from the cereal and flour milling industries. The resulting product is a well-mixed, loose feed.
- × Using raw materials with high mycotoxin content may cause animal poisoning.
- × Improper storage of prepared feed reduces its nutritional value and can cause illness.
With such a mini-factory, you can produce feed not only for cattle, but also for goats, sheep, pigs, poultry, and pond fish. Remember that the milk yield of cows, the daily weight gain of livestock, the egg production of poultry, and other indicators depend on the quality of the feed.
Very interesting idea. I showed it to my husband, and he approved.