1-160T/H fully automatic cattle feed plant solution

When building or designing a new cattle feed unit, there are plenty of different factors to consider. No two cattle feed plants are exactly alike. You’ll need to adjust your plans based on the size of your facility, what you’re trying to achieve, and what kinds of animals you’re looking to raise, all the while maintaining the health and safety of your employees.

Keep these considerations in mind when designing a cattle feed plant for your business:

① What is the product or recipe that you’re looking to process?

You’ll need to consider the incoming product when creating your feed mill. Different products like flour, grain, and rice require different milling techniques. For example, roller mills cannot process flour, while hammer mills can. If you’re combining different materials and products into the same feed mill, you’ll need a mill that’s designed for universal applications.

② What size granulation do you need?

Different animals require different sizes of feed based on their digestive systems. Cows require larger, coarser particles that are high in fiber, while pigs require finer particles of a certain size. Feeding your animals the wrong sized particles will lower your feed conversion rates. Consider the needs of your animals before investing in a fully automatic cattle feed plant.

③ What capacity is needed?

You also need to consider how much feed you’ll need to produce at any given time. Some cattle feed mills come with strict throughput limits, so you may want to consider choosing a different model if you plan on producing large quantities of feed. Some models are prone to excess heat, friction, and costly repairs when operating at high volumes, so make sure your new system can handle the intake to maximize your milling efficiency.

④ Are there any limitations? Space limitations? Electrical limitations?

You should also know the limitations of your facility before investing in a fully automatic cattle feed plant, including the size of the space, how you plan on having your employees move throughout the facility, as well as any electrical limitations. Your employees should be able to move throughout the space freely without running into equipment or potential hazards. You’ll also need to position your equipment for optimal efficiency, so your employees can complete their work in less time.

⑤ Is this a new product, something that no one has produced before?

If not, what type of testing is needed? If you’re creating a new product or working with a new recipe, you’ll need to test the product beforehand to make sure it’s safe for your equipment. Additional steps may be required before putting the material through the machine.

⑥ Cattle Feed Plant Safety

The health and safety of your employees should always be a top concern. Some cattle feed plants can generate excess heat and friction that may put your employees at risk. Some machines are prone to spontaneous combustion, so you may need to invest in explosion protection, as well.Once you’ve done your research, you can start planning out the details of your new facility. Consider partnering with an experienced fully automatic cattle feed plant design and construction firm, so you don’t have to make all these decisions on your own.

The professionals at Richi Machinery can help you design and construct the perfect cattle feed plant for your business. We invest in the latest feed mill technology, to help our customers accomplish their goals.

To process 10 tons per hour cattle feed pellets, you can refer to the following process with a fully automatic cattle feed plant:

• Formulate a recipe. This is usually done by a nutritionist to ensure the target animal will get the nutrients it needs.
• Weigh out the ingredients according to the recipe. You need several different size scales: large scales for macro-ingredients that make up more than 10% of the formulation, and small scales/manual hand-weighing to add micro-ingredients which make up less than 1% of the formulation.
• Grind the ingredients to less than 2 mm. Consider grinding individual ingredients before mixing (pre-grinding), or grind the entire mixture (post-grinding) after weighing.
• Mix the formulation thoroughly. Use a ribbon blender or a paddle mixer that can mix up to 10 tons at a time. You may add a pelleting aid and liquid-based ingredients at this stage.
• Move the mix to the cattle feed pelleting machine. Use a bucket elevator to carry the feed to the top of the mill and then let it drop to a bin above the cattle feed pelletizer.

• Condition the mix with steam immediately before it enters the feed pellet machine. You do this by adding steam directly into a horizontal mixing/transport chamber. Conditioning adds heat and moisture to the feed, which softens it and makes it easier to press the pellets.
• Conditioned meal falls into the press where it is pelleted. Sometimes the pellets are cut to a specific length by a knife on the outside of the die.
• Hot pellets drop into a counter-flow cooler where air is blown through them in the opposite direction. This cooling returns the pellet to within 3-5°C of ambient temperature, and at the same time removes the moisture that was added by condensing steam.
• Transport the cooled pellets for storage or packaging. This usually involves another lift to the top of the mill by a bucket elevator and gravity flow to their destination.

The following is an example of the process flow of a 10t/h fully automatic cattle feed plant:

How to make cow feed 4-5t/h? The typical phases of a 4-5t/h automatic cattle feed plant are:

• Receiving and storage raw material
• Dosing components
• Grinding
• Mixing and adding micro-components
• Storage flour and pelleting
• Cooling, Sieving, dust recovery
• Storage end product
• Packaging

Accordingly, the main equipment you will need to start a fully automatic cattle feed plant includes:

• Crushing equipment: designed to produce 5-6T/H.
• Mixing equipment: 500kg/batch, mixing uniformity CV≤5%.
• Granulation equipment: Pellet Making Machine For Cattle Feed, Model SZLH350, 55KW.
• Cooling equipment: design capacity 5-6T/H;
• Pellet crumbler: design capacity of 3-5T/H.
• Screening equipment: design capacity 4-6T.

Want to produce 30t/h cattle feed, your fully automatic cattle feed plant can refer to the following process:

(1) Receiving & Storaging Cattle Feed Raw Materials

In this initial phase the supply of substances for the desired recipe is determined. Normally a reception pit is foreseen where the raw materials are delivered. Through extraction screws and elevators the substances are loaded in the storage silo.

(2) Dosing Components Section

The raw materials are conveyed by a screw to the scale where they are weighed and dosed for the creation of the requested recipe.

(3) Cattle Feed Raw Materials Grinding Section

The material that needs to be smaller, passes through cattle feed hammer mill grinders, in order to reach the desired dimension.

(4) Feed Mixing Section

The product is loaded in a horizontal cattle feed mixer where it will be mixed and homogenized for a certain period; in this phase other micro-components can be added, like integrator or additives, necessary to the recipe.

(5) Cattle Feed Pelleting Section

The material is entering in the cattle feed pellet machine passing through the conditioner. Here other ingredients like steam, molasses and grease could be added, before the material goes into the pellet pressure chamber to be transformed into pellets by the ring die. the holes some knives cut the cattle feed pellets at the desired length.

(6) Cooling & Screening Section

After pelleting, the finished cattle feed product is very hot, therefore it’s necessary to cool the product at approximately +5°C in respect to the room temperature, in order to give it the right hardness and the best consistency to store and handle it. In the sieving phase the product is cleaned from the dust, which is brought back into the production cycle.

(7) Conveying Section

The pelleted product is conveyed to the silo for storage before delivery. It can be loaded in a truck in bulk or conveyed to the packaging line.

(8) Packaging Section

The pelleted product is conveyed to the silo for storage before delivery. It can be delivered in bulk, loaded on trucks or packed in sacks or big-bag. The machines for packaging could be manual, semi-automatic or automatic, based on the requested production.

The following is an example of the process flow of a 30t/h fully automatic cattle feed plant:

The concentrated feed of cattle feed includes energy raw materials, protein raw materials, fat, auxiliary materials, urea, trace elements, vitamins and molasses, etc. The processing technology of beef cattle or dairy cattle concentrate is combined with other processes.

Most of the processing procedures of cattle concentrate feed are basically similar to those of other livestock and poultry.

The biggest feature of cattle feed concentrate processing is that it is equipped with a grain pressing process, and the physical characteristics of feed, the thickness of material crushing, grain pressing and starch gelatinization degree, will affect the rumination of cattle and the production of volatile fatty acids in the rumen of cattle.

The processing technology of concentrated feed for beef cattle and dairy cattle is almost the same, but the process parameters are different, such as the thickness of crushing, whether the tablet is steamed or not.

The essence is the rumination of the cattle after eating the feed, so that the feed is fermented in the rumen of the cattle to produce volatile fatty acids. The beef cattle strive to mainly produce propionic acid in the rumen, and the dairy cows mainly produce acetic acid.

Dairy cow concentrate feed processing

It is not suitable for the starch gelatinization of grains to be too high in the dairy cow concentrate feed processing technology, and the starch gelatinization in the dairy cow concentrate feed should be controlled at 20%~30%.

When the concentration of acetic acid produced by the feed in the rumen of dairy cows is low, it is necessary to add exogenous acetic acid, which is beneficial to the production of milk. If too much acetic acid from exogenous sources is added, when the acetic acid is at a high concentration, it is not conducive to the production of milk.

Beef cattle concentrate feed processing

In beef cattle feed, if some grain puffing processing technology is compared with cooking and tableting, the gelatinization degree of grain starch can be increased to more than 50%, the volatile fatty acid in the rumen of cattle can be increased by 5.2%, and the ratio of acetic acid to propionic acid is from 2.68. 1 down to 1.99.1.

For example, the digestibility of sorghum puffed processing is 102.2% higher than that of crushing, and 41.3% higher than that of cooking and pressing. The digestibility of puffed corn and barley is increased by 76.0% and 19.7% respectively, and the puffed processing technology is more suitable for beef cattle feed processing.

How to make cow food 1-2t/h?

The process of producing cattle feed pellets can roughly be described as a plastic molding operation of the extrusion type. Feed ingredients are made up of various compounds such as proteins, acids, sugars, fibers, and minerals. These products can be softened (conditioned) by the addition of heat and water.

The following is our standard 1 t/h fully automatic cattle feed plant process design, we can also customize according to your needs. After such a process, 1 ton of cattle feed pellets can be processed by configuring a pulverizer, cow feed mixer, cow feed pellet machine, cooler, screening machine, and packing scale.

How to produce cow feed 15-20t/h? With our cattle feed making machines we meet all the processing requirements within the fully automatic cattle feed plant:

• Reception of raw materials and handling system
• Raw materials cleaning system
• Storage and batching system
• Micro-ingredients and premixes dosing systems
• Liquid batching unit system
• Grinding with hammer mills system
• Mixing system
• Pelleting system
• Cooling system
• Screening system
• Packaging system

①Raw materials receiving System

Raw materials can be corn, rice bran, soybean, grain, wheat, soybean meal / cake and etc. Precleaner can remove the impurities in raw materials.

②Grinding System

The cattle feed grinding machine can grind the raw material ingredients to the required size. There are various cattle feed hammer mills which can satisfy different requirements.

③Mixing System

Mixing is considered to be one of the essential operations in cattle feed pellet processing. Lack of proper mixing may lead to reduced diet uniformity, affecting the cattle feed pellet quality.

④Pelletizing System

Cattle feed pellet mill is the core equipment of the whole fully automatic cattle feed plant. According to different raw material, cattle feed formula and working condition, we can offer you different cattle feed pellet mills.

⑤Cooling System

The feed pellets pressed out by the cattle feed pellet making machine are hot and moist. They can’t be crushed, screened or packed immediately. Counter-flow feed pellet cooler is designed to cool or dry the feed pellets. It can decrease the temperature and moisture of the feed pellets, preparing for the following processes.

⑥Screening System

The rotary grading sieve can be used to screen and grade the feed pellets. After processing, you can get the qualified cattle feed pellets without fine powder.

⑦Packing System

The cattle feed pellets should be packed for transporting, storing or selling.

The following is an example of the process flow of a 15-20t/h semi-automatic and fully automatic cattle feed plant: