As a chicken farmer, are you still wasting money on feed? Pay attention to these to reduce food waste.
- (1) Prevention of waste caused by procurement, storage and processing
- (2) Overcoming waste in feeding and feeding materials
- (3) Reducing feed waste caused by other factors such as chicken house facilities and temperature
- (4）Chicken feed Pellet is easier to handle and reduces waste. Loading feed with concentrated pellets prevents waste from some picky chickens picking certain ingredients and ignoring others
How to Make Homemade Chicken Feed Pellets
Whether you decide it's time to reduce the cost of food for your poutry，or your chickens need to change their diet, making your own chicken feed pellet is a great way to start. In the long run, it can save you a lot of money. In addition, mixing chicken feed pellets by yourself also ensures that only natural ingredients are fed to the rest animals on your farm for feed. On top of that, homemade feed pellets help ensure that your chickens get a balanced and nutritious diet so they can lay eggs regularly.(Read More: How to Make Chicken Feed Pellet of Your Own?)
If you are looking for a recipe for homemade chicken feed and would like to learn how to make chicken feed pellets, read on to learn more.
What Do You Have to Know Before Making Your Own Chicken Feed?
Well, before mamking your own chicken feed pellets, what are the actual foods you should mix into your feed in order to meet the nutritional needs of your chickens?
Common Chicken Feed Pellets Formulation and Composition
| Formulation | Corn | Bran | Broad beans | Soybean meal | Rapeseed cake | Caraway cake | Fish meal | Salt | Premix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Composition | 59.0% | 5.0% | 4.65% | 19.0% | 3.0% | 2.0% | 3.0% | 0.35% | 4.0% |
How Much Does the Hot Selling Chicken Feed Pellets Making Equipment Cost?
Chicken feed pellet machine is specially used to make feed pellets equipment, the production of chicken feed pellets need to use a smaller pellet mill, which means that the aperture of the grinding disc is small so that the feed pellets produced can be fed to the chicken and also conducive to digestion and absorption. By the way,different sizes of feed pellet mill discs can make a variety of specifications of animal feed pellets. Therefore，buying Mini Chicken feed pellet mill with good palatability for a variety of animal use. (Related articlel : Animal Feed Pellets Making Machine Cost and Price)
| Animal Type | Size of Grinding Discs |
|---|---|
| chick and small birds | 2mm mill |
| chickens, rabbits, ducklings, pigeons, etc. | 3mm mill |
| Adult rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese and pigeons | 4mm mill |
| Pigs, cows, sheep, etc. | 5-6mm mill |
| Large animals, birds, fish bait, etc. | 7-8mm mill |
Various types of animals are suitable for different grinding discs of animal feed pellet mill. Chicken feed pellet machine is also suitable for processing pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, fish livestock aquatic feed pellet processing. Moreover, ABC Machinery's feed pellet production machine are priced from 1000 USD, which is the ideal equipment for farming professionals and small and medium-sized feed processing plants to reduce costs and increase economic efficiency.
Hot Selling 600~1000Kg Per Hour Household Type Feed Pellet Unit
ABC Machinery offers different types of feed pellet mills to suit different feed pellet production capacities. There are flat die feed mills and ring die feed mills. By application, they can also be divided into small household pellet feed mills, poultry feed pellet mills, small poultry feed mills, fish feed pelletizers, rabbit feed presses, pig feed pelletizers and corn straw pelletizers. According to the output, it can be divided into mini type, small household and large industrial. If you want to buy the ideal feed pellet mill, there is always one that best suits your requirements. For more details about chicken feed production machinery and to get a detailed quote, please feel free to contact us!
Top Benefits of Making Your Own Home Made Chicken Feed
If you're considering switching to homemade chicken feed at home, there are 5 benefits that shouldn't be overlooked.
- 1. Save money. Buying chicken feed is one of the most expensive parts of raising chickens. Making and mixing your own feed helps keep costs down.
- 2. Healthy ingredients and balanced nutrition. Since you are making your own chicken feed, then it will be necessary to buy and mix healthy ingredients in bulk to produce feed pellets to suit your particular flock.
- 3. Flexibility to meet the needs of your chickens. Depending on the broiler and laying hens, you can use different chicken feed formulations to meet their nutritional needs.
- 4. Easy to operate. The feed pellet mill is stable and powerful.
- 5. Easy to digest and absorb. Using high temperature burst fire grinding disc and pressure roller, hard and more wear-resistant. This makes the feed pellets more easily absorbed and resistant to storage.
Video: Mini Chicken Feed Pellets Production Line Processing for Self-made Poultry Feed Pellets Making
After reading this article, you now know the specific nutritional needs of your backyard chickens. Do you make your own feed for your chickens? Click the link below to get in touch with us!
