Technical Guide: Dairy Cattle Feed Pellet Production
Animal performance and feed efficiency benefit from good quality pellets. The better the pellet, the better the performance. Reduced waste, less segregation in the feed, improved palatability and shorter eating periods-all of these feed pellet merits are brought by feed pellet mill.
Raw Materials for Making Dairy Cattle Feed Pellets
- Cereals: maize, barley, oat, wheat, triticale, rye and sorghum
- Seed from oleaginous crops: soy, flax, and sunflower
- Seed from legumes: broad beans, field bean and protein pea
- Forage: flours of permitted forage essences
- Dried beet pulp.
Appetizers and Feeding Limits
Furthermore, the following substances can be used as appetizers in feed pellets:
- Carob-bean: up to a maximum of 3%;
- Molasses: up to a maximum of 3%.
Note: for animals in lactation, dry animals, and heifers from the sixth month of pregnancy, maximum daily amount of feed pellets is 2 kg/head/day.
Equipment for Making Cattle Feed Pellets
Machinery and equipment to make cattle feed required in the cattle feed pellet production line are as following.
- Tank (or other containers): for raw and auxiliary materials storage.
- Feed hammer mill (feed pellet grinder): for grinding the raw materials to feed powder.
- Feed pellet blender (feed pellet mixing machine): used to mixing powdered materials to improve the uniformity of the ingredients.
- Feed pellet mill (feed pelletizer): is the main equipment for making the cattle feed pellets. We supply flat die feed pellet mill design better for home use and ring die feed pellet mill design for cattle feed factory.
- Feed pellet cooler: is used to cool the hot and moisture feed pellets.
- Feed pellets screening and grading machine: is used to remove the fines and grade the pellets, which is the preparation for packaging.
- Feed pellet weighing and packaging machine: is used to weigh and pack the pellets in the uniformity.
- Other auxiliary machines: (conveyor, lifter, etc. Usually used in an automatic cattle feed pellet line).
2 references of cattle feed ingredients formulation
cattle feed formulation I
| Cattle Feed Ingredients | QUANTITY |
| Wheat bran | 28% |
| Rice polishing | 20% |
| Rapeseed cake | 15% |
| Cotton seed cake | 15% |
| Maize grain | 20% |
| Mineral mixture | 2% |
| Total | 100 |
| Feed Factor | |
| Protein | 16.17% |
| Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN) | 73.43% |
cattle feed formulation II
| CATTLE FEED INGREDIENTS | QUANTITY |
| Maize gluten (30%) | 20% |
| Wheat bran | 18% |
| Cotton seed cake | 15% |
| Rice polishing | 15% |
| Sunflower meal | 5% |
| Maize Grain | 10% |
| Molasses | 15% |
| Mineral mixture | 2% |
| Total | 100 |
| Feed Factor | |
| Protein | 16.17% |
| Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN) | 73.43% |
video of how to make cattle feed
