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Feed Quality Conveying Test
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• Iowa swine farm.
• Two inch (50.8 mm) Cablevey conveyor diameter.
• Eight Hundred feet (243.8 meter) conveyed length.
• Mash feed.
• Six feed samples - three taken at start and three at end, as Cablevey
feeder was running and filling up feed dumps along the swine barn.
• Assays conducted by Midwest Laboratories, Omaha, Nebraska. |
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Feed nutritional value as determined by five ration chemical assays, indicated no losses
occurred during conveying of mash swine feed in a commercial farm facility with Cablevey. |
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Item/Dry Basis
(%) mean |
Start |
End 800 ft, 243.8 m |
Crude Protein |
18.2
18.2
17.8
18.1 |
18.2
17.7
17.7
17.9 |
Crude Fat |
6.31
6.32
6.33
6.32 |
6.29
5.90
5.63
5.84 |
Ash |
5.54
5.39
5.68
5.54 |
5.49
5.65
5.31
5.48 |
Calcium |
1.12
1.13
1.20
1.15 |
0.84
1.00
0.99
0.94 |
Phosphorus |
0.87
0.89
0.87
0.88 |
0.85
0.93
0.83
0.87 |
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