Physical and engineering properties of animal feed mixture for development of pelletizer

SHRUTI    THANEER; K.V.  PRAKASH; DEVANAND  MASK; SUSHILENDRA .; J. N.  SREEDHARA

doi:10.61475/jfm.v35i04.43

SHRUTI THANEER Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering
K.V. PRAKASH Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering
DEVANAND MASK Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering
SUSHILENDRA . Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering
J. N. SREEDHARA Department of Veternairy Sciences University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur - 584 104, Karnataka, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.61475/jfm.v35i04.43

Keywords: Compound cattle feed, Feed mixture, Milk yield, Pelletizer

Abstract

Feeding the livestock with feed mixtures play a very significant role in animal productivity, body health and milkyield of the animals. Imbalanced feeding and high cost of conventional feed, the productivity of the animal is decreasing. Inorder to overcome imbalanced feeding, the compound cattle feed in the form of pellets has to be fed. Pellets are producedby using pelletizer machine by studying physical and engineering properties of feed mixtures which will served as a baselinein design and development of pelletizer machine. In this present study, the properties considered are particle size, moisturecontent, bulk density, static coefficient of friction and angle of repose. The results showed that particle size, moisturecontent, bulk density, static coefficient of friction and angle of repose are found to be 2.5 mm, 9.5 per cent, 0.582 g cc-1,0.546, 36.44 degrees of feed mixture, respectively