Animal Feed Technical Articles
Manufacturing and Machinery
Manufacturing and Machinery
Article published the March 17, 2021:
What Is Preconditioning?
Preconditioning means to condition or prepare a material before it is processed further. In the context of extrusion processes, preconditioning occurs just prior to extrusion i...
Article published the March 17, 2021:
Overview – What Is Extrusion?
The word extrusion means shaping a material or a blend of materials that can be plasticized (able to be melted and become fluid-like), and is pumpable by for...
Article published the January 7, 2021:
Introduction
Feed manufacturing equipment has been shown to be a potential source of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) cross contamination. Wet decontamination has been found to be the most effective meth...
Article published the October 14, 2020:
Article published the September 15, 2020:
Introduction
The use of enzyme complex in animal feeding improves the utilization of nutrients that would otherwise be unavailable (Leite et al., 2011), reflecting positively on the performance and reducing th...
Article published the September 9, 2020:
Article published the July 20, 2020:
Article published the July 20, 2020:
Article published the July 20, 2020:
Introduction
Globally, feeding cost and the price of poultry product have recently increased due to increasing competition between human and animals for the same feed resources. Agriculture by-products are val...
Article published the July 17, 2020:
Ingredients come to the feed processor from a variety of sources. Many of these, particularly the coarse cereal grains, require some degree of processing before they are ready to be blended into an animal ratio...