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US 4,542,031 AGranted
Process for the production of animal feedstuff
AssigneeNippon Formula Feed Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
InventorsTaiji Nakajima, Tsuneo Togawa, Masao Koike
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Abstract
A highly palatable soft granular foodstuff suitable for a wide range of animals including both livestock and fish is prepared by adding propylene glycol and a fatty component to the basic nutritional components, moisture content being adjusted. No heat treatment is necessary.
Claims1
A method for the preparation of an animal feedstuff in soft granular form consisting essentially of admixing a powdered nutritionally balanced pig or calf feed with 1-10% propylene glycol in a mixture with stirring and at a temperature of 70.degree. C. or less to agglomerate the mixture;
- allowing the mixture to stand unstirred in the mixer for a period of time sufficient to cake and solidify the mixture;
- reoperating the mixer to particulate the solidified mixture and removing the particles therefrom;
- pulverizing said particles to form powdered granules;
- spraying the powdered granules with 2-30% fat or oil to provide dimensional stability and cooling the sprayed granules, thereby providing a dimensionally stabilized soft granular feedstuff having from 2 to 25% by weight of moisture and a moisture activity of less thatn 0.90.
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