Pig is among the most populous large mammals in the world. It’s a large market for pig farming, how to make pig feed by your own?
Pig is among the most populous large mammals in the world. It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide.Pigs are omnivores and can consume a wide range of food.There is a large market on pig feed production.
What Is Pig Feed? 
Pig feed are divided into 2 types, first is raw feed which is not artificial feed.it’s mainly include following types.
1. Coarse feed: It refers dry grass, stalk and agricultural by-product,which crude fiber content more than 18%.
2.Green feed: It refers fresh alfalfa,vegetables, which natural moisture content more than 60%.
3.Silage: It refers roughage, which is the green feed was chopped and fermented.
4.Energy feed: It refers crude fiber content of less than 18%, crude protein content less than 20%.
5.Protein feed: It refers crude fiber content of less than 18%, crude protein content of more than 20%.
6.Additives: It refers natural minerals,vitamin,antibiotics, antioxidants, etc.
Second is compound feed, it’s artificial feed. Along with the development of cultural technique and breeding technique, compound feed play an import role in modern pig farm. It can significantly reduce production costs, protein and phosphorous intake and excretion, and greenhouse gases emissions by increasing individual nutrient efficiency. We are here to talking about how to make artificial feed pellet.  Maybe you can try to use the chicken feed pellet machine.


Why Pig Feed Is Important?
Pigs are known for their appetites, and they have a collection of favorite foods to match. However, just like humans, pigs need a complete, well-balanced diet in order to stay well and avoid unhealthy weight gain. The nutritional needs of pigs can be divided into six categories or classes. These are water, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Accurate formulation makes sure the diet meets the needs of the specific pig.
Each pig with different feed Requirements, to properly nourish the pig, we need to understand its nutritional idiosyncrasies, its physiology and nutrient requirements, and how it responds to feedstuff and additive combinations. We must also realize that feeding goes beyond diet formulation, because diets must be properly processed, transported, stored, and finally presented for consumption before their potential is realized.
Good feed is necessary for growth, body maintenance and the production of meat and milk. You can use locally feeds that are less expensive, but also can be made by your own animal feed pellet mill.
Making your own pig feed is far more cost-effective than buying expensive commercial brands from the local market. In fact, if you are only raising a small pig farm, a hundred dollars’ worth of homemade feed might be enough to last you a few months.
Making your own hog feed is not too difficult, as long as you know the proper ingredients and proportions to use.
When you mix and formulate your own feed, you need know some information to help you produce high quality pig feed pellet .
How To Make Pig Feed?
Grinding The degree of fineness of ingredients for pigs is very important.The finer particle size will increase the surface available for enzymatic digestion resulting, thus, in better nutrient digestibility. In general, 1.3% improvement in feed efficiency should be expected for each 0.1mm reduction in particle size. For maize is about 0.6mm. For soybean meal, 0.6~0.9mm is much sufficient.
Pelleting: Pelleting can improve nutrient ingestion and improved digestibility,which can improve growth rate and feed efficiency by about 10% in nursery pigs .Pellet quality is traditionally associated with (index >90%) durability. But durability doesn’t mean hard pellet,when pigs have trouble chewing their feed, the performance can be depressed by as much as 10%-15%.
Pellet diameter also influence quality, according to research, the piglets as young as 14-21 days old can easily cope with any pellet diameter ranging from 1 to 12 mm. Since wastage may be excessive in pellets larger than 3-4 mm, most commercial pig feed pellet have an average diameter of 2 mm.
 
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