FEED MIXTURE PREPARING METHOD Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: feed production. SUBSTANCE: method involves grinding fibrous, succulent and concentrated feeds; mixing them with nutrient solutions. Fibrous feed is ground to particle size of 5-80 mm, succulent feed to particle size of 10-100 mm, and concentrated feed to particle size of up to 1-5 mm. Feed component mixing procedure is carried out in three stages including: first stage at which ground fibrous and succulent feeds are mixed; second stage at which nutrient solution is added into mixture produced and mixing process is repeated; third stage at which ground concentrated feeds are introduced with following adding of zeolite flour and preservative, and mixture produced is repeatedly mixed to obtain homogeneous mass. Nutrient solution may be molasses and preservative may be ammonium carbonate. Method allows daily average animal weight gain to reach 25% due to increased eating up and digestion extent of feed mixtures. EFFECT: increased storage life and improved quality of feed mixtures. 2 cl, 1 tbl, 8 ex