Chicken Feed Manufacturing Plant
The chicken feed manufacturing plant is a complete chicken feed production line. It is used to produce feed pellets that provide essential nutrition for for broilers, layers, and chickens. We offer a variety of production capacities and configuration options to meet your production needs.
Video of chicken feed production process
The chicken feed manufacturing plant mainly includes raw material receiving and cleaning systems, crushing systems, batching and mixing systems, pelleting systems, cooling systems, screening systems, and finished product packaging systems. The chicken feed production line is specially designed for the production of chicken feed pellets and poultry feed pellets and is widely used in feed plants, farms, etc.

Overview of chicken Feed pellet Production Line
Application of chicken feed plant solution
The chicken feed production line is capable of producing chicken feed pellets with diameters ranging from 2 to 12 mm, meeting the nutritional needs of baby chicks, hens, broilers, laying hens, turkeys, and other poultry. It is compatible with a wide variety of feed formulations, including grass, wheat bran, rice bran, corn meal, soybean meal, sorghum, oats, and more.
Suitable Capacities
The following are the standard production capacities for this production line. Beyond these, we also offer customized capacities ranging from 1 to 60 T/H, and even 120 T/H or higher, to meet a wider range of production scale requirements.
0.5-1 T/H
1-2 T/H
3-5 T/H
5-10 T/H
10-20 T/H
20-40 T/H
Applicable Scenarios
This solution is a complete industrial production line, ideal for poultry feed plants of all sizes, ensuring efficient and high-quality poultry feed production. Additionally, it is suitable for large-scale poultry farms and chicken farms. We offer a variety of configuration options for you to choose from.



Broiler Feed Pellets production
This solution can produce feed for broiler chickens at various growth stages and is suitable for broiler farms and chicken feed manufacturing plant. The feed produced has the appropriate particle size and gelatinization level, offering excellent palatability and digestibility.
Layer Feed Pellets production
This solution is equipped with a highly wear-resistant chicken feed pellet machine to handle high-calcium formulations for layer feed. This ensures feed quality and nutritional value. The system guarantees consistent compliance with the highest feed quality standards.
Specialty Chicken Feed production
This solution can also produce feed for breeding chickens, free-range chickens, and black-bone chickens. By uniformly blending feed additives into powdered raw materials, it produces chicken feed pellets with enhanced functionality. It meets the demand for higher returns on investment.
Process flow of chicken feed production line
We offer complete chicken feed production lines capable of meeting production capacity requirements ranging from 1 to 60 T/H and above. The main components include the crushing and mixing section, the pelletizing section, the cooling section, and the packaging section. We can provide customized process sections tailored to your production needs, as well as turnkey solutions.
receiving
Cleaning
crushing
batching
mixing
pelletizing
Cooling
Screening
packaging

Complete chicken feed line equipment
The main equipment of a complete chicken feed manufacturing plant are cleaning system, feed crusher machine, feed mixer, chicken feed pellet machine, cooling machine, pellet crumbler, vibrating screener, conveying system, storage system, boiler equipment, electric cabinet, etc.
① Powder Sieve
It can effectively separate foreign objects (such as paper, stones, and ropes) from powdered materials to ensure the smooth operation.
Power: 5.5-7.5 kW
Capacity: 10-50 T/H
Purity Rate: ≥95%

② Feed Grinder Machine
It can crush materials into powder, such as corn, sorghum, wheat, beans. It is widely used by the large-sized animal feed industry.
Power: 37-220 kW
Capacity: 3-50 T/H
Crusher result: 0.5-20mm

③ Feed Mixer Machine
This machine is suitable for mixing materials in various industries, such as powder, granular, flaky, and viscous materials in feed industries.
Power: 5.5-30 kW
Capacity: 250-2000 kg/P
Volume: 0.5-4 ㎡

④ Feed Pellet Machine
The chicken feed pellet machine is a key component of a chicken feed manufacturing plant. It can produce feed pellets for poultry.
Main Motor Power: 22-315 kW
Capacity: 1-40 T/H
Pellet Diameter: 2-12mm

⑤ Cooling Machine
The counterflow cooler can cool pellets from 80°C to slightly above room temperature for 3°C-5°C, for easier transportation and storage.
Power: 1.5-2.2 kW
Capacity: 1-40 T/H
Cooling Duration: 6–15 Minutes

⑥ Pellet Crumbler
It is widely used for crushing poultry pellets and aquatic pellets. Mainly used to produce small-diameter feed pellets for baby chickens and suckling pigs.
Power: 14-11 kW
Crushing Rate: 70%
Pellet Diameter: 0.3-1.2mm

⑦ Vibrating Screener
This screener is used to screen pellets into different sizes and remove dust from their surfaces, thereby ensuring the quality of the feed.
Power: 0.18-0.55*2 kW
Capacity: 2-50 T/H
Tilt Angle: 19°

⑧ Packaging Scale
This can weigh and package pellets and powdered materials. Sealing methods include heat sealing, stitching, and hybrid sealing.
Power: 0.92-2.42 kW
Packaging Speed: 2-8 bags/minutes
Specifications: 10–50 kg / bag

Core advantages of Chicken Feed Plant solution
Our chicken feed manufacturing plant solution has been scientifically designed and offers a range of advantages. Based on a scientifically optimized process flow, this solution delivers higher production efficiency and lower energy consumption. We have also designed various configuration options and production capacity levels to meet your diverse production needs.
01
High Versatility
This chicken feed production line is suitable for producing broiler and chick feed in various specifications, hardness levels, and pellet sizes. It can accommodate a wide range of chicken feed formulations, meeting the needs for both powdered and pelletized feed for different types of chickens.
02
Automated Production
We equip the entire chicken feed production line with automated control panels, thereby reducing labor costs. We offer solutions with varying levels of automation to suit different production capacity scales. Highly automated production lines offer a higher return on investment.
03
Easy Maintenance
Each piece of chicken feed production equipment is designed for user-friendly operation. Wear-prone components such as ring dies, roller shells, and blades can be easily disassembled and replaced. We also provide a global spare parts network to prevent production interruptions.
04
Customized Solutions
The production line solutions described above are standard designs. We can provide customized designs based on each client’s specific production requirements and actual conditions. This includes customized production capacity, process segmentation, automation levels, and equipment customization.
05
Efficiency and Energy Savings
Each piece of production equipment is designed for high efficiency and energy savings. Combined with an automated control system, this production solution can reduce energy consumption per unit by 20%. It also achieves higher raw material utilization, increasing output per unit by 15%.
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Turnkey Solutions
For clients seeking a quick and seamless start-up, we offer turnkey services. In addition to the advantages mentioned above, this service provides a one-stop solution covering everything from project planning and site construction to production launch.


Global Projects
This production solution has provided manufacturing services to clients worldwide. It encompasses not only basic production line solutions, but also complete plant construction solutions for chicken feed manufacturing plant. Since each client’s production requirements differ, the specific project configurations also vary significantly.
Why Choose RICHI Machinery?
RICHI Machinery pursues the purpose of product quality first. The main parts and wearing parts are made of high-quality wear-resistant materials, coupled with advanced processing technology. We can provide to build different types of chicken feed manufacturing plants to meet different production needs. We also provide various solutions for customers according to their needs, raw materials, production capacity, etc.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are answers to frequently asked questions about this production plan. This includes recommendations for selecting a plan, production considerations, and investment costs. If you have any other questions about this plan, please feel free to contact us at any time.
Why To Use Chicken Feed Manufacturing Plant?
When raising chickens, it is usually necessary to feed them, so as to promote their normal growth and facilitate higher economic benefits for people. Existing chicken feed is usually packaged directly after processing and production without pelletizing the feed, which makes it difficult to store and transport.
RICHI pellet machine can produce feed pellets that are suitable for chicken. The advantages of the feed pellets are as follows:
- Increasing the feed intake of chicken and animals and reduce feed waste.
- When changing the chicken feed formula, it can be more easily accepted by animals.
- Improving the conversion rate of feed digestion.
- Preventing picky feeding of chicken and animals to ensure good nutritional chicken feed formula.
- High temperature and steam sterilization can eliminate harmful microorganism in chicken feed.
- High quality chicken feed pellets can withstand repeated treatment and remain intact during bagging, transportation, storage and delivery of the feeding line.
Chicken pellet feed is a strip feed made of powdered feed extruded by a chicken feed pellet machine. It is a popular feed form today. In recent years, with the rapid development of the feed industry, pellet feed has been gradually accepted by the majority of farmers. Therefore, for chicken feed manufacturers or poultry farms, the establishment of a chicken feed plant or the purchase of a chicken feed manufacturing plant is very promising.
How To Choose a Proper chicken feed plant?
Do you get into trouble when you want to build a chicken feed manufacturing plant? Do you hesitate how to select the proper equipment? Don’t be anxious. You can choose based on the following aspects.
The Type Of Chicken
Chicken feed manufacturing plant is specializing in the production of feed. It can produce different feed pellets, such as baby chicken feed pellets, hens feed pellets, laying chicken feed pellets, broilers feed pellets, turkey feed pellets, etc.
The Type Of Pellets
RICHI chicken feed production line is used to produce feed pellets of different sizes, such as 1.5mm baby chicken feed pellets, 3-4mm broiler and layer feed pellets, and other sizes you need. It can be customized according to your detailed requirements.
What The Pellets Used For
If the feed pellets you produce are only for your own farm or animals, you do not need a packing machine. If you produce feed pellets for sale, then you have the need for a packing machine.
An important step in choosing a high-quality chicken feed plant manufacturer is to find a reliable brand of feed pellet mill. RICHI Machinery has own factory and professional production equipment. It is an industrial group that mainly focuses on feed pellet machinery, and also involves biomass pellet energy machinery, organic fertilizer pellet machinery, and parts.
Why Chicken Farms Need Chicken Feed Machines?
In the process of raising chickens, farmers often choose to match their chickens with chicken feed for the sake of reducing costs and improving nutrition. As we all know, chicken feed is the basic guarantee for the healthy growth of chicken flocks on chicken farms. There are also a lot of requirements for the processing of chicken feed. However, some farmers often pollute the chicken feed due to improper processing methods, which is not conducive to the normal growth of chicken flocks on chicken farms, and also increases the cost of raising chickens for farmers.
The chicken feed manufacturing plant is to make corn, soybean, maize, grass, and wheat powdery into 2-12mm chicken feed pellets. After crushing and mixing the raw materials, the chicken feed pellet machine can process raw materials into nutritious feed pellets for the chicken. The feed pellets produced by RICHI pellet machine have the following advantages.
First of all, after the sterilization of high-temperature steam, the possibility of mildew and insects in the feed is reduced, and the palatability of the feed is improved. Secondly, the nutrition is comprehensive, and animals are not easy to picky about food, which reduces the separation of nutrients and ensures the daily supply of nutritionally balanced feed. Thirdly, the reduction of the volume of feed pellets is easy for feeding. Also, it can reduce labor consumption.
RICHI Machinery can provide you with a complete chicken feed manufacturing plant. We can help you with plan design, workshop layout, equipment production, installation, training to after-sales. If you are intending to build a chicken feed plant, just contact us.
How To Safeguard Feed Quality And Feed Mill Efficiency?
With in-depth research on the feed industry, more and more scientific researchers and manufacturers are improving the quality of raw materials and optimizing formulations, while taking feed processing technology as an important way to improve product quality. The hardness of feed pellets is an important index of the appearance quality of pellet feed. And it is also found that the particle hardness of pellet feed has a certain influence on the production performance of livestock and poultry in the feeding process of some chicken farms. Therefore, how to regulate the particle hardness of pellet feed is a problem that some manufacturers and scientific researchers are actively exploring.
Throughout the whole process of feed pellets production, in addition to the feed formula, the process that affects the hardness of the feed pellets are: the crushing process of raw materials, the steam conditioning process, and the selection of the ring die in the pelletizing process.
(1) Effect Of the Crushing Process On Pellet Hardness
The decisive factor for the hardness of the pellets in the crushing process is the size of the crushed raw materials. The impact of crushing raw materials’ size on the hardness of the pellets directly affects the conditioning process and granulation process. In actual production, according to the production performance of different animals and the size of the ring die aperture, crushing size requires to make appropriate adjustments.
Generally speaking, in the process of the chicken feed manufacturing plant, the finer the crushing size of the raw material, much easier the starch paste in the conditioning process, the much stronger the bonding effect in the raw materials, and the much greater the hardness of the pellets.
(2) The Effect Of the Steam Conditioning Process On The Hardness Of Pellets
Steam conditioning is a key process in pellet feed production, and the conditioning effect directly affects the internal structure and appearance quality of pellets. Steam quality and conditioning time are two important factors that affect the conditioning effect. High-quality and dry saturated steam can provide more heat to raise the temperature of the material. The longer the conditioning time, the higher the degree of starch paste, and the greater the hardness of the feed pellets.
For general livestock and poultry, the conditioning temperature is kept at 70-80℃ by adjusting the amount of steam added, and the conditioning time is controlled by changing the length of the conditioner, the angle of the paddle, and the rotational speed to about 30 seconds. For fish materials, it generally adopts a double or multi-layer conditioner to increase the conditioning temperature and extend the conditioning time. It is more conducive to improving the stability of fish pellets in the water, and the hardness of the pellets also increases accordingly.
In the processing of chicken feed plants, the factors affecting the hardness of the pellets are far more than these. As more and more scientific and technical workers are enthusiastic about feed processing technology research, more and more methods to regulate the hardness of the pellets are mastered. RICHI Machinery can provide various chicken feed manufacturing plants to produce different feed pellets to suit the needs of animals. If you have this intention, just send an inquiry to us.















