Overcoming Pellet Durability and Feed Efficiency Challenges in Poultry Farming with ULTRAPELL

Overcoming Pellet Durability and Feed Efficiency Challenges in Poultry Farming with ULTRAPELL

In poultry farming, feed quality is important in ensuring the ideal growth, health, and productivity. Proper feed particle size is crucial for optimal digestion and gut development. Whole grain feed causes uneven nutrient intake, lower digestibility, and potential mycotoxin contamination. Mash feed is dusty, leading to high wastage, selective feeding, and poor nutrient absorption. Also, fine particles pass quickly through the gizzard with minimal grinding, resulting in a smaller gizzard, an enlarged proventriculus, and reduced intestinal length eventually reducing their exposure to digestive enzymes. As birds grow consumption of fine particles becomes difficult. This may result in an incomplete nutrient breakdown, negatively affecting FCR. Hence, pelleting is used to obtain the desired feed particle size required for poultry of a specific age.

Pelleting compacts feed particles, ensuring uniformity and reducing nutrient loss. It ensures optimum nutrition intake by minimizing ingredient disintegration and promoting uniform distribution.  Pellet binds the fine particles to stimulate gizzard activity, improving feed utilization, growth performance, immunity, and gut health.  It reduces wastage, and selective eating behavior, and improves feed efficiency, handling, and storage stability.

Maintaining pellet quality is important for poultry productivity and profitability. Various factors, such as feed formulation, processing conditions, and post-processing practices, can affect the production of high-quality, durable pellets.

Need of Pellet Binder

Coarse particles, Insufficient conditioning, excessive fats and oils, incorrect die configuration, or inadequate pressure significantly affect production and enhance animal productivity. In order to minimize these consequences pellet binders are used.

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Pellet binders ensure the pellet remains intact, durable, and nutritionally effective throughout processing and transportation. It also improves the pellet durability index, ensures effective binding of raw materials, and minimizes fine particles and moisture retention eventually improving digestion, nutrition absorption, and bird performance.

Traditionally, synthetic binders like polymethyl carbamide (PMC) have been widely used to strengthen pellets. However, with growing concerns about sustainability, performance efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, Ultrapell can be considered a viable organic alternative to synthetic binders.

Ultrapell: The Natural Solution for Superior Pelleting

Ultrapell is an organic pellet binder specifically designed for poultry feed processing. It is a thermo-reactive binder that is stable at room temperature and therefore will mix well with other feed ingredients. Once the feed mix is exposed to moisture and heat in the conditioner, this organic feed binder binds other feed ingredients. It enhances pelleting capacity and reduces energy consumption at the feed mills.

 Ultrapell significantly reduces dustiness and dry matter loss from feed. It improves pellet durability compared to synthetic binders and the control group.

Benefits of Ultrapell

•Improves pellet durability and stability

•Easily distributed in feed

•Improves transportation convince

•Prevents particle disintegration

•Supports higher production and lower energy consumption

•Reduces waste

For poultry farmers to improve feed stability, nutrient retention, and profitability, Ultrapell is the ultimate natural solution for durable pellet quality.

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