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Why Chicks Eat 1.5mm Crumble Instead of Powder: How Weiwei Pellet Mill and Crusher Improve Chick Feed Intake
Update:2026-09-22 14:05:19    Views:
A common question from poultry farmers is this: if a pellet mill followed by a crusher can turn feed into 1.5 mm crumbles for chicks, why not just feed the original powder? The reason is practical. Young chicks do not like powder, and powder is hard for them to eat. It is light and dusty, easily blown around the feeder, so chicks struggle to pick it up. Intake falls, a large part ends up scattered on the floor, and fine dust is inhaled or wasted — all of which slows early growth.
Crumble solves the problem. The pellet mill first presses the mash into pellets, then the roller crusher breaks them into uniform 1.5 mm crumbles sized for chicks in their first two weeks. Because the nutrients were bound together during pelleting, the crumb keeps the formula uniform with no separation. It is easy to peck, more palatable, and far less dusty, so chicks eat more, convert feed better and the house stays cleaner.
For a farm, the pellet mill plus crusher combination is flexible: one line produces fine starter crumble (1.5 mm) for chicks now and, by simply widening the crusher gap, whole pellets for growers later. Zhengzhou Weiwei Machinery supplies flat-die and ring-die pellet mills with matching crumblers and complete feed pellet production lines. Contact us for machine specifications, output data and a video test of the feed pellet line.

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