The feeding hens is essential to ensure the welfare of the animals and thus the success of the farm. The best choice of how to feed the hens depends on the number of poultry to be cared for.
When breeding matters few hens worth buying ready-made feed of the type best suited to the specimens being bred, if necessary leaving them free to roam and supplementing their feed with appropriate components.
If the farm has a good number of hens, it is possible to prepare food for the hens with a electric mill.
What are electric grain mills?
The electric mills cereal grinders are devices that use an electricity-powered motor to grind cereals into flour to feed chickens. These devices are basically mincers that break up cereals into more digestible fodder and inviting for poultry that cannot chew their food.
They are used to grind materials such as rye, barley, maize, oats, hard and soft wheat, peas, beans, linseed, broad beans, buckwheat and non-oil dry products. They can have metal or stainless steel millstones.
Manual mills have a hand crank that needs to be turned to grind grain: they are advantageous when you need to produce little flour or plan to work without electricity.
The electric mills, Instead, they allow the feed to be shredded faster than the manual model. Depending on the sieve you use, you can get mince of a given size rather than another.
Some models also integrate both manual and electric power supply.
Many models also allow you to create ad hoc flour mixtures by setting the fineness of the mixture you want to achieve.
The control unit succeeds:
- Ad absorb solar energy during the day, minimising the electricity consumption of the network;
- A recharge the batteries that will then provide the necessary energy during the night, remaining active even in the event of a blackout.
During the night, the system converts its operating mechanism: instead of using the electricity grid, it uses the energy that the batteries have stored during the day.
How an electric grain mill works
As the name implies, the manual mills require an operator committed to turning the crank to produce the chopped material. They are inexpensive models that do not consume electricity and are good choices when it is a matter of producing little feed and not frequently; otherwise, they become burdensome in terms of time required and physical effort to be sustained.
The electric mills provide for a electrical mechanism by shredding of components, so the farmer only has to pour the food into it, activate the machine and distribute the result. They are more expensive models, but allow a enormous savings in time and physical effort.
They are generally smaller and easier to transport than manual models, so they are recommended for those who want to move them with little effort.
Compared to manual mills - which have almost no possibility to adjust the grinding - they have several adjustment options, so you can choose the grinding thickness. It should be remembered that the type of milling also influences the shelf life of the product obtained.
Why choose an electric chicken mill?
Buying a electric mill cereal mill is a smart investment to reduce the animal feed bill.
Hens have difficulty eating whole corn kernels, whole broad beans, sharp barley grains, and providing them with such foods in the form in which they are bought risks damaging their digestion, if not actually injuring them.
However, these feeds cost less than other types of feed, and using them saves on the overall costs of raising hens.
A electric grain mill makes it possible to reduce the feed into finer, better digestible grains for poultry. In this way the farmer can use the cheapest feed without risking making the hens sick.
The advantages of the electric grain mill for hens
- makes it possible to use healthy and inexpensive food by making it digestible for poultry;
- retains the nutrients in the flour and semolina;
- obtains a good amount of product in relation to the size of the appliance;
- allows them to produce healthy food for the hens themselves;
- makes feed preparation faster for a large herd;
- can be used for small and large quantities of feed;
- preserves the protein in the content as it is not heated during processing;
- does not release dust into the environment
The electric grain mills River Systems have all the advantages listed above and are designed to meet the specific needs of farmers. They are 100% Made in Italy and designed to make it easy to grind all types of grain (e.g. rye, oats, maize, millet, etc.) as well as non-oil dry products.
They can also be used at home, to grind cereals for the preparation of bread and homemade pasta.
Available in the galvanised steel version with double jute bag and in the version with 20-litre drum and 50 litres, Mistral's electric mills make it possible to prepare any mince of different fineness for hens, chickens, chicks, rabbits and other types of flocks.
Moreover, being detachable, they are easy to clean; and when active, they do not interfere with the operation of other electronic devices, because they are equipped with a noise filter.
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