Granulated forages - feed for farm animals, obtained by pressing (granulation) and crushed dried herbs or a special mixture (feed). Grass meal - natural protein and vitamin feed (an additive in animal feed) to farm animals made from grass (green weight), harvested in the early stages of vegetation, quickly dried at high temperature and milled into flour.
It is well known that the basis of the ration of many species of farm animals (especially ruminants) is grass. Since fresh grass is available only in summer, during this period made it blank for future use. Previously, the grass is harvested at the stall period the animals primarily through drying of hay, with most of the vitamins, amino acids and other vital substances are destroyed by ultraviolet light and oxygen. With the development of technologies methods of harvesting grass there with the best preservation of useful components. One of them - making grass meal and grass pellets.
Despite the fact that the herbal powder and herbal granules are forage for their energy values are close to the concentrates. Properly cooked meal (or pellets) on the total nutrient yield few grain feed, and contains in one kilogram of 100-140 g of digestible protein, 200-300 mg of carotene, almost all the essential amino acids. For these reasons, pelletized grass meal is a very popular commodity. Since the cost of production of grass pellets as of summer 2010 was about 2500 rubles / ton, and selling price - from 8000 rubles / ton, - production of granulated herb is highly profitable.
For the production of grass meal pellets and grass pellets use freshly cut grass bean, cereals and forb herbage. Of great importance is the technology of production of grass meal. It is known that vitamins are rapidly (in seconds) are destroyed by strong heating. Therefore, for the production of vitamin-herbal flour crushed grass should be dried to 9 - 12% humidity for a few seconds. On the content of nutrients and vitamins to herbal flour significantly affect the form and terms of storage, in granular form keeping more nutrients. Therefore, for long term storage (as well as reduce the cost of transportation) vitamin grass must be granulated.
Briquettes - compressed particles of plant origin, having the form of cylinders with a diameter of more than 25 mm. or having a polygon cross-section (sometimes - with a hole in the center). Briquettes can be made of wood, peat, straw, husks, reeds, sapropel, coal dust and many other types of plant material, as well as solid waste, waste paper, used tires...
Pellets (granules) - chopped and dried plant material, pressed into a cylindrical shape with a diameter of 25 mm. Pellets can be made of wood, reeds, peat, sapropel, grass, husk, straw, coal dust and many other types of plant material, as well as from the debris...
Granulated organic fertilizer - crushed and dried at high temperature manure or litter (dung), pressed into pellets.
It is necessary to consider one important factor: in fact, manure and litter are the main products of meat and poultry, because animals and birds produce these products in tens of times more mass than meat, milk and eggs...
Wood flour - dry crushed wood, the bulk (95%) which passes through the a sieve with a size of cells 1.25 x 1.25 mm. or less. Particles of wood flour, usually have an elongated shape, so the exact size is not regulated by them. When sifting they may be held in mesh diagonals, so their linear dimensions, of course, may be more linear size of the lumen of the sieve...
