FEED SIZE INFO

Poultry Mash Feed Vs. Poultry Pellet Feed Vs. Poultry Crumble Feed

Mash Feed for Poultry:

Mash feed is a type of powdered feed that is mixed in certain proportions and crushed to a relatively uniform particle size. Mash feed appears as a fine powder with a fineness of about 2.5 mm or more.

Advantages:

• Feed production equipment and process are relatively simple; less power consumption, low feed processing costs.

Disadvantages:

• Easy to cause animal's picky eating, resulting in waste. For example, feeding chickens wastes 6%~10%;
• Easy to waste and loss in the transport and storage process

Pellet Feed for Poultry:

Poultry feed pellets are presented in the form of regular granules, generally between 2~5 mm in size, and usually in the shape of a sphere or pellet.

Advantages:

• Reduce wastage and improve feed utilization.
• Avoid nutritional imbalances caused by picky eating.
• Good application effect, usually can gain 5 ~ 15% or more of weight of poultry.

Disadvantages:

• Not convenient for some small poultry to feed.
• The cost of making poultry feed pellets is higher than powder feed.
• Poultry feed pellet production machine causes some vitamins and enzymes to lose activity during heating and pressurization.

Crumble Feed for Poultry:

The currently recognized method of processing crumble feed to save the cost of poultry feed production lines is crushing the processed poultry feed pellet into 2-4 mm pieces. Chicks usually use crushed crumble feed. Crumble Feed is easy for poultry to eat and absorb while ensuring balanced nutrition. However, processing poultry feed pellets into crumble feed, which requires more production cost of poultry feed mills.

Chicken Feed Pellets VS. Chicken Feed Crumbles