Things You Should Know Before Starting Your Aquatic Feed Plant
In the aquatic feed extrusion process, the feedstuff actually go through the condition of high temperature, high humidity and high pressure. When the feed pellets are discharged from the fish feed extruder machine , the pressure is dropped from high pressure to about 100kPa, and the moisture in the feedstuff immediately transforms from liquid to gas and distributes out of the feed. As a result, the feed materials expand and form the so-called extrusion feed. Things You Should Know Before Starting Your Aquatic Feed Plant To choose the right aquafeed processing equipment, you must understand the characteristics of aquafeed firstly. 1. Small particle size: Due to the short digestive tract of aquatic animals and related physiological characteristics, in order to speed up digestion and absorption, aquafeeds should have a smaller particle size than livestock and poultry feeds, such as salmon and prawns, the feed size should be 80 ~120 mesh. 2. High protein cont...