The preparation of floating & sinking fish feeds by extrusion
Published: January 5, 2017
Summary
Extrusion has been used to prepare animal feeds for many years and has proved to be an effective means to cook and shape raw ingredients into very specialized products, especially in the highly competitive pet food market where size, shape, mouth feel and degree of cook are important factors in the success of the product. During the past 25 years the commercial raising of fish for human food cons...
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Anderson International Corp
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Mogul Process plant
18 de enero de 2017
Interesting. Because we design and build Fish Feed process plant in South Africa. Always something to learn from others.
Roger.
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12 de marzo de 2017
Very interested subject
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25 de mayo de 2017
Very educative write up, extruding fish feed will minimize wastage and reduce water pollution.
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16 de abril de 2018
Want to know how, locally, I can prepare my own feed and make it float.
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6 de mayo de 2020
Thats brilliant indeed
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21 de agosto de 2020
Are there any additives or chemicals required for making the fish feed to float?
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28 de marzo de 2021
What material really ensures at least two minutes floating in waters?
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Anderson International Corp
29 de marzo de 2021
Adeniyi ;
To achieve sinking effect you have to consider several factors such as formulation, amount of steam and die insert configuration. If you are thinking only on the ingredient side of the equation then you wont be successful achieving what you are looking for, you have to balance and consider all these 3 factors.
ED.
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29 de octubre de 2021
Can sinking pellet kill fish in the earth pond?
Thanks
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12 de diciembre de 2021
Very educative write up,had problems with our extruder,its producing sinking feed instead of floating
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25 de marzo de 2022
Very educative and really appreciated
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16 de abril de 2022
My extruder can't produce floating feed. Could there be a way helping me with a solution.
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8 de marzo de 2023
I want to know how to do a floating feed
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26 de julio de 2023
Really want to know how to produce a floating feed , the ones I produced doesn't float.
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