F “There are lots of mixers in the pig and poultry industries that are clogged with fat on their mixer spokes. “Mixing for five minutes in an un-cleaned mixer will still leave the mixed feed in the higher CV range. Whereas, with a clean mixer its almost down to the 10 percent CV threshold after five minutes and within the range at six minutes,” he says. He concluded this section of his presentation saying uniformity can be measured using chloride ion, sodium ion, dyed iron particles, elemental ayalysis, antibiotics/drugs and crystalline amino acids. “All of these are useful methods,” he added.
The impact of fines
There are food safety issues involved with too many fines in pelleted feeds, Dr Benke went on to say. “And if we can’t do better than 30-40 percent pellets in the feed at the farm, we might as well turn the pellet mill off,” he adds. With 25 percent pellets and 75 percent fines in a finished feed at the farm is a problem when 60 percent of what chickens consume is pellets. Almost all the chickens ignored the fines completely. “Broilers are very selective eaters and will select pellets over fines. We all know this,” he says. The ratio of pellets to fines impacts performance. Eating pellets
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“The industry over many years has gone too far in the direction of saving money, trying to limit costs, instead of spending money wisely and particularly on good feed manufacturing technology”
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means birds will eat and then sit, not burning energy. Chickens forced to eat fines utilize more energy doing so and partition their energy differently. Dr Benke says the causes of fines occurring in feed pellets is 40 percent due to the formulation and just 20 percent due to pelleting “We can’t formulate for pellet quality successfully. The ingredients that go into a feed have a major impact on pellet quality.”
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