Making your own food pellets

[jake and pippa]

I raise quite a few birds, chickens, ducks and geese, and while I like to buy feed from a local mill, they do not sell pelleted food, and pelleted food is less wasteful for adult birds. Has anyone any experience using a small scale pellitizer mill from pellitizermill.com, see http://www.pelletizermill.com/small_pellet_machine.htm.

 

[PD-Riverman]

I raise quite a few birds, chickens, ducks and geese, and while I like to buy feed from a local mill, they do not sell pelleted food, and pelleted food is less wasteful for adult birds. Has anyone any experience using a small scale pellitizer mill from pellitizermill.com, see http://www.pelletizermill.com/small_pellet_machine.htm.

You priced the small one?

 

[jake and pippa]

I did not. I wanted to know if anyone on these boards had used one. The price I would be willing to pay will depend on how durable, reliable and consistent the machine is, ease of use, quality of product. I can buy pelleted feed from a mill at far less then I pay for commercial feed, but it is a 2-3 hour drive, and to get delivery I need to order 4 tons. There are two other mills closer to me that sell only mash, so I am trying to calculate time and effort for several scenarios. If it takes 2 hours to pellet 100 pounds of feed, the price is irrelevant, I am bettor off driving and buying 1 ton at a time.

 

[olivialewis]

never use it. but there are so many pellet mill providers in China. the prices and qualities vary different with each other. you need to take every aspects into consideration.

 

[juls_farm]

I did not. I wanted to know if anyone on these boards had used one. The price I would be willing to pay will depend on how durable, reliable and consistent the machine is, ease of use, quality of product. I can buy pelleted feed from a mill at far less then I pay for commercial feed, but it is a 2-3 hour drive, and to get delivery I need to order 4 tons. There are two other mills closer to me that sell only mash, so I am trying to calculate time and effort for several scenarios. If it takes 2 hours to pellet 100 pounds of feed, the price is irrelevant, I am bettor off driving and buying 1 ton at a time.

I realize that it is an old thread, but I was wondering if you ever got a pellet mill and started making your own pellets?