Farm-Made Feed-Making Process

• Farm-made feed can be made with machine or manually.

• Indigents are broken rice/rice bran – 400g, dried fish (powder) – 320 g, oil cake – 90 g, casava powder – 100 g, wheat flour – 80 g and salt – 10 g.

• With the above proportion, protein content is 27% per 1 kg of feed. 

Farm-made feed making process (mechanical)

• Firstly, grind dried fish and oil cake by using grinder into find powder.

• Sieve rice bran, dried fish powder and oil cake powder through a fine mesh to obtain a uniformly fine powder.

• Mix properly the sieved powder with casava powder, wheat flour, salt and water until the mixture is pasty and sticky.

• Transform pasty mixture into pellets with extruder (mincer) and extruded pellets which will still contain moisture must be placed in plastic or aluminum bucket.

• The fresh pellets should be dried in the sun for 2 days or longer, depending on the temperature.

• Keep the dried pellets in waterproof bag and store them at cool and dry place.

Picture (4) Quaity pellets which is made by machine (Source: Fish feed extruder)

 

Farm-made feed making process (mechanical)

 

• Mix all the indigents (dried fish powder, rice bran, oil cake, casava powder, wheat flour, salt) with water and make to get feed to crumble by sieving them through 1 mm fine mesh screen.

• The small pieces of pellets must be dry under the sunlight for at least one day and then, store them by keeping waterproof bags.