Chicken feed production line in Iraq

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A farmer and feed-business owner with two customer groups

The investor has operated around Baghdad and Kurdistan and manages approximately 80,000 broilers and laying hens. That combined bird number describes the farm base, but not one daily feed requirement. Broiler age and layer production stage change the diets and quantities needed.

The mill is intended to serve those farms first and supply specified feeds to nearby farmers. Orders for the owner’s birds and outside customers therefore need separate product identities and delivery quantities. A pellet that looks similar may carry a different formula.

The customer wanted more control over purchasing and feed preparation when supplied feed and transport costs changed. In-house production moves those decisions into his own business, together with responsibility for receiving checks, recipe control and finished-feed release.

The chicken feed mill plant brings those tasks together. The project’s useful commercial question is how much of each feed to make and when to dispatch it, rather than how many tonnes the press could theoretically produce without an order schedule.

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Local grain with purchased meals and mineral additions

The broiler and layer feed mill in Iraq uses corn, wheat-milling by-products, soybean meal, sunflower cake and specified mineral additions. The main grains and meals are weighed into the selected recipe, with small additions handled separately. No fixed inclusion percentage is assigned simply because a material is available locally.

Supplier qualification matters particularly when protein meals come through different traders or mills. The nutrient analysis, moisture and condition of the actual lot guide its use. Limestone supplies calcium; other mineral needs follow the selected diet. Calcium-rich material should not be treated as a complete calcium-and-phosphorus package.

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One route makes pellets and selected crumb grades

The process uses standard feed-milling stages with equipment arranged for the buyer’s ingredients and product mix. Bulk grain and meal have their own receiving needs, while small additions need accurate weighing and a controlled entry into the mixer.

The chicken feed production line in Iraq follows cleaning → grinding → automatic batching → paddle mixing and selected liquid addition → steam conditioning → ring-die pressing → cooling → crumbling or bypass → screening → bagging. The crumbler follows cooling, with the intact-pellet route able to bypass it.

The poultry feed mill equipment supports different feed grades, with finishing settings issued alongside the recipe. As a packing illustration, a five-tonne order in 50 kg bags contains 100 bags. At 10 T/H accepted output it represents half an hour of steady production, before changeovers and interruptions. Crumb-grade yield is assessed separately.

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Equipment matched to the final 10 T/H duty

The pelleting selection for the final duty is one SZLH420 with a 110 kW main motor and a compound-feed reference range of 10–12 T/H. The rest of the line supports that press, including main-ingredient weighing, paddle mixing, cooling, crumbling, screening and dual-scale packing.

Steam and liquid additions have separate purposes. Conditioning prepares mash for pressing, while oil or another specified liquid follows its formulation and suitable addition point. Enzymes and other heat-sensitive additions need their own handling decision; they are not all grouped together as ordinary oil additions.

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Keep the product programme centred on poultry

The first products are broiler and layer feeds, including appropriate grades for younger birds. Other livestock diets can be assessed as separate developments. Their nutrition, grind and die requirements still need to be defined, and a new recipe may change the working rate.

The crumbler is a useful part of the selected package because the intended poultry programme includes smaller feed forms. It does not turn one grower formula into a starter diet. The recipe, accepted size fraction and bag identity stay together when the finishing route changes.

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Plan production and collection around the farm customers

The customer’s farm requirements and commercial orders can differ in both timing and grade. A practical schedule groups compatible work while allowing recipe changes, cleaning and collection. The bird count alone is not a reason to run the line continuously at its nominal rate.

The site is described as approximately 160 kilometres from Baghdad. That location provides a reference for planning dispatch, but the routes and quantities still follow actual customer orders. The factory needs room for ingredients arriving and finished bags waiting to leave.

Ingredient cover is planned by recipe. A store full of corn cannot keep a batch moving if the required protein meal, premix or mineral is missing. Ordering and receiving those smaller shares on time is part of maintaining the intended production programme.

These site provisions support operation and maintenance without promising uninterrupted production. The equipment and service plan needs clear stopping, isolation and restart procedures, particularly when power, steam or downstream handling is interrupted.

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An equipment agreement with a defined operating scope

The January enquiry and March contract moved the project from an initial capacity request to a complete feed-processing arrangement. The contract includes three weeks of local operator training, with the installation and handover work organised around the supplied equipment.

The customer also discussed a later aquafeed development. That would need a separate product and process brief, including whether the feed is sinking or floating, the required water stability and any extrusion and drying duty. It is not counted as an operating branch of this poultry project.

This chicken feed production line in Iraq was sized around a final 10 T/H duty and the farmer’s broiler-and-layer products. Send RICHI your bird groups, expected feed orders and required pellet or crumb grades, together with ingredient analyses and available site services. That gives the proposal a clear basis for batching, pressing, finishing and dispatch.