How to Make Cattle Feed Pellets: 5 Step Process & Formulation

about how to make cattle feed pellets

Dairy cows are bred for high milk production, essential for dairy products. but how to make cattle feed pellet? Feeds rich in calcium, phosphorus, protein, and energy ensure quality milk and cow health.

However, traditional feed has been unable to meet the feed requirements. As a healthier and more nutritious feed material, pellet feed has gradually replaced traditional pasture. It can be rationed using a scientific formula tailored to dairy cows’ needs during milk production.

Using pellet feed, dairy farmers can optimize dairy production to maintain the level of profitability they want! Manufacturers create cow feed pellets as compound animal feeds from various raw materials, specially formulated for different types of cows.

For manufacturers, how to make cattle feed pellets depends on the cattle feed ingredients raw materials available. You can boost cow food pellets’ nutrition by adding vitamins, cobalt, manganese, selenium, and iodine during formulation. Below, we describe the process of making cow food pellets.

video of how to make cattle feed

Raw materials for making your own cattle feed

1. Cereals: maize, barley, oat, wheat, triticale, rye and sorghum
2. Seed from oleaginous crops: soy, flax, and sunflower
3. Seed from legumes: broad beans, field bean and protein pea
4. Forage: flours of permitted forage essences
5. Dried beet pulp.
Furthermore, the following substances can be used as appetizers in feed pellets:
1. Carob-bean, up to a maximum of 3%;
2. Molasses, up to a maximum of 3%.
Note: For lactating animals, dry animals, and heifers in their sixth month of pregnancy, the maximum feed pellet amount is 2 kg/head/day.

what Equipment needed for making your own cow feed

Machinery and equipment of how to make cattle feed pellets required in the cattle feed production line are as following.
1.Tank( or other containers ) for raw and auxiliary materials storage
2. Feed hammer mill (feed pellet grinder) for grinding the raw materials to feed powder.

3. Feed pellet blender ( feed pellet mixing machine) used to mixing powdered materials to improve the uniformity of the ingredients.
4. Feed pellet mill (feed pelletizer) is the main equipment for making the cow feed pellets. For cow feed mills, we offer flat die pellet mills for home use and ring die mills for factories. Tell us your capacity needs, and our sales team will recommend the best machine.

6. A feed pellet cooler cools hot, moist pellets. If your daily production is low, you can dry the pellets in the sun instead.
7. Feed pellets screening and grading machine is used to remove the fines and grade the pellets, which is the preparation for packaging.

8. The pellet weighing and packaging machine ensures uniform packaging. For personal farm use, store pellets in a dry container instead of buying this machine. However, for an automatic feed pellet plant, it’s necessary.
9. Other auxiliary machines( conveyor, lifter, etc. Usually used in an automatic cow feed pellet line)

5 general process of how to make cattle feed pellets

Crushing Process:

The first step in how to make cattle feed pellets is to crush the raw material. This stage is designed to grind the material into fine particles so that it is easy to mix. This step happens in the coarse crusher. A hammer mill grain grinder breaks down raw materials into finer particles. Once ground, move to the next step to make cow feed pellets.

Mixing Process:

A cow feed mixer ensures a balanced mix of cattle feed ingredients in every pellet bite. If not making pellets, use the mixer to blend crushed materials for cow feed.

Pelletizing Process:

Feed pellet machine is the main equipment of complete animal feed production line. Compared with flat die feed pelletizers, ring die feed production equipment has a larger capacity.

Cooling Process:

The fourth step in how to make cattle feed pellets is drying the pellets. The granulation step produces granules with a moisture content of approximately 17%. This requires you to dry the pellets to the desired 11-12% moisture content before they leave the manufacturing plant.

Packing Process:

After cooling, we will bag or store the pellets according to your needs and requirements. Our semi-automatic packaging machines efficiently manage the packaging process. A computer weighs the finished feed, which we then pneumatically unload into bags. The weighed bags then travel down the conveyor belt, where the machine sews the top, securing the dry feed inside.

2 references of cattle feed ingredients formulation

cattle feed formulation I

cattle feed formulation II