ANIMAL FEED Animal feed is food given to domestic animals in the course of animal husbandry. Feed refers particularly to food given to the animals (Cattle, Poultry, Fish, Shrimp, Goat, Horse), rather than that which they forage for themselves. It includes hay, straw, silage, compressed and pelleted feeds, oils and mixed rations, and sprouted grains and legumes. Feed grains are the most important source of animal nutrition globally. The two most important feed grains are maize and soybean and the other feed grains include wheat, oats, barley, and rice, among many others. Compound feed is fodder that is blended from various raw materials and additives. These blends are formulated according to the specific requirements of the target animal. They are manufactured by feed compounders as meal type, pellets or crumbles. The main ingredients used in commercially prepared feed are the feed grains, which include corn, soybeans, sorghum, oats, and barley. Compound feed may also include premixes, which may also be sold separately. Premixes are composed of micro-ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, chemical preservatives, antibiotics, fermentation products, and other essential ingredients that are purchased from premix companies, usually in sacked form, for blending into commercial rations. FEED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY Feed manufacturing process and the machines for the process have evolved and refined after years of operation in various countries at different locations. In the past, the feed miller ground his raw materials one by one. A limited number of ingredients could then be mixed in batch mixers. Since the needs were low he could afford to do this and also had a lot time. As farms expanded and the number of difficult ingredients increased, the conventional method was no longer sufficient and the mixed grinding operation was introduced. Here pre-weighed individual material as batches were fed to the hammer mill and ground together. After the grinding operation these batches were put into a blender with a given mixing time (between 4 to 6 minutes per batch). This mixing time determined the overall capacity of the plants irrespective of all other factors. GRINDING After Cleaning the batch is stored in a grinding hopper. The Batch tracking systems follows the batch and lets it enter the Hammer Mill (Grinder) via a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) operated Feeder making sure no two batches are mixed. The Grinder powders the raw material to typically 900 – 1200 micron particle size. The batch is ground but is not homogenous in mixing and hence is passed to the mixer. MIXING The mixing section is equipped with a batch mixer which is a paddle or a ribbon type of mixer. Here as per the batch tracking system, the entire batch enters the mixers and is mixed altogether. The typical process is about 3-5 minutes of mixing time. Here the powder is homogeneously mixed to achieve a <5% variation in the sampling. MOLLASIFYING After mixing, the material is fed into mollasifying section in which, molasses is added. The Molasses is added from a pre heated Molasses storage tank via a VFD operated pump. In some cases, where material does not require pelletizing, the material is directly taken to Mesh Bin and bagged before dispatch. PELLETIZING In pelletizing Section, Wet Steam is supplied for conditioning the material to improve pellet quality and operating characteristics of the pellet mill. Conditioned Material is compressed and extruded from Die to produced 6 mm to 10 mm diameter pellet in a Pellet Mill. SCREENING & PACKAGING Pellets are then cooled in Cooler and passed through vibratory sieve for correct size of product. Final product stored in Bagging Bin and Bagged after weighed. |cattle feed plant manufacture in vadodara| |cattle feed plant manufacture in mahrashtra| |cattle feed plant manufacture in kolkata| |cattle feed plant manufacture in madhya pradesh| |cattle feed plnat manufacture in punjab| |cattle feed plant manufacture in khanna, ludhiana| |cattle feed plant manufacture in Tamil Nadu| |cattle feed plant manufacture in Rajasthan|