Feed insights
Fruit pomace as a natural palatability enhancer
Intake is the first condition for any nutritional plan to work. A recipe that meets every target and is eaten reluctantly performs worse than a simpler one the animal finishes.
Why fruit-derived mate…
Sampling before contracting: how to run a useful ingredient trial
Sampling is often treated as a formality before a purchase decision that has already been made. Used properly, it is the cheapest way to avoid a contract that does not fit your process.
Decide what t…
Linseed in animal nutrition: seed, meal, press cake or oil
Linseed reaches the feed industry in at least five distinct forms, and they are not variations of one ingredient. Each carries a different fat, protein and fibre balance, and each behaves differently…
Storing dried plant ingredients: moisture, temperature and shelf life
Most complaints about dried plant ingredients are storage problems, not production problems. The material left the plant within specification and picked up moisture somewhere between the truck and th…
Batch traceability: what a lot number should tell your quality team
Traceability is often reduced to a number printed on a bag. For a feed manufacturer it is something more practical: the ability to answer, within hours, which raw material went into which finished lo…
Cold-pressed press cakes: what residual oil means in a formulation
A press cake is what remains after mechanical oil extraction. Unlike solvent extraction, pressing leaves part of the oil in the material, and that residual fraction is the reason press cakes behave t…
Flakes, meal or pellets: choosing the right form of a feed material
The same raw material can be delivered as flakes, meal or pellets. The choice is usually treated as a packaging detail, but it changes handling, mixing accuracy and how the ingredient behaves in the…
How to read a certificate of analysis before you buy
A certificate of analysis is not a quality guarantee. It is a record of what was measured on one defined batch, using stated methods. Reading it properly means knowing what it does not say.
Check the…
Why crude fibre decides the shape of a compound feed recipe
Crude fibre is the parameter buyers quote most often and specify least precisely. In a compound feed recipe it does three separate jobs, and only one of them is nutritional.
Fibre is structure before…
Apple pomace in horse feed: fibre and palatability without starch
Dried apple pomace has been a fixture in equine feed for decades, and for reasons that go beyond taste. It delivers fibre at a very low protein and starch contribution, which is exactly the combinati…
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