Method of stirring chicken feed

The feed of chicken group is the material that supplements nutrition adequately, and every part of feed that chicken group eats, nutrition should be balanced, if feed allocation is not balanced, it will lead to the phenomenon of malnutrition of chicken group, you make the feed fully stir even method, give sufficient nutrition to chicken group.

(1) mechanical mixing, using a blender. The agitators commonly used are vertical and horizontal. Vertical mixer is suitable for powdery feed with water content less than 14%. This type of mixer needs little power, low price, convenient maintenance, but the mixing time is long (usually 10-20 minutes per batch), suitable for professional farmers and small farms. Horizontal agitators can even up the feed in humid climates or when a viscous ingredient (such as grease) is added to the feed. This machine has strong stirring ability and short stirring time, each batch needs 3-4 minutes, which is mainly used in some feed processing plants. No matter which kind of agitator is used, in order to mix evenly, the amount of loading should be appropriate, too much or too little loading cannot ensure uniformity, generally with the capacity of 60%-80% loading is appropriate. Stirring time is also an important factor related to the mixing quality. If the mixing time is too short, the quality cannot be guaranteed. However, it is not better if the mixing time is too long.

 

(2) manual mixing, this method is the main means of household chicken feed mixing. Mix when, must careful, patience, prevent a few trace composition to hit pile, agglomerate. Mix unevenly, affect feeding effect.

 

Special attention should be paid to some trace ingredients, such as salt and various additives, which make up a small proportion of the diet but can seriously affect the feeding effect when chickens are mixed manually in the broiler cage. If the mixing is not uniform, the light will affect the feeding effect, serious will cause disease, poisoning, and even death of the chickens. To this kind of microelement, when mixing, want to smash adequately above all, cannot have caking phenomenon, after caking thing is taken by the chicken, produce poison possibly. Secondly, due to the small amount of these ingredients, they cannot be directly added to the bulk feed for mixing, but should be pre-mixed. Its practice is: take 10%-20% of concentrate (preferably a large proportion of energy feed, such as corn) as a carrier, stacked in addition, after a shovel of feed down in front of the feed, that is, has been put on top of the feed, feed along the center point to flow around into a cone, so that all kinds of feed have the opportunity to mix. So repeated 3-4 times can achieve the purpose of mixing evenly, the mixture is made. Finally, add this mixture to the whole feed and mix it 3-4 times in the same way.

 

When hand mixing, it is only through such multi-level grading and mixing that the quality of the matching diet can be guaranteed. It is not advisable to turn or stir the feed in situ.