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flying belgian

05-07-2008 10:15:34




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Theres an auction coming up that has a feed grinder listed. I'm looking for some way to grind a little feed for a handful of chickens and a few pigs. What would a feed grinder be? I don't think it is a mixer-mill as they have one of those listed by itself. Was there ever a small grinder built besides the stationary mills or a portable mixer-mill? I was actually thinking of using the household blender unless I can find something better suited that is not another big implement to maintain.

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Moline_guy

05-08-2008 21:09:38




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 Re: feed grinder in reply to flying belgian, 05-07-2008 10:15:34  
There is an old feed grinder over at my dads farm that my granpa used back in the day. It has a large belt pulley and a hopper and some rollers, so actually i guess you would call it a roller mill. It has a small hopper and once the feed goes through the rollers simply falls to the ground. Another old mill grandpa used was built similiar but instead of rollers, mounted on the shaft with the belt pulley was a fan with some hammers on similiar to a blower silage cutter and it would grind and blow the feed up and into a trailer, it also had a small hopper to shovel the grain into it. One of my grandpas brothers was killed in the early 50's by one of these mills when a shaft broke and he was hit by a piece of metal. So be careful around that old machinery, grinder mixer mills can usually be bought for under 500 and are probably more relialble than those old belt driven machines, just my .o2

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wally b

05-08-2008 20:31:12




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 Re: feed grinder in reply to flying belgian, 05-07-2008 10:15:34  
They made sweep style feed grinders that a single horse could power easily. They grind corn primarily but would do wheat and maybe oats for sure. A bushel of dry feed corn can be crack ground in aboout 10-20 minutes with a calm begian. A small lutz mill can be powered with a sweep horsepower and two horses.

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farmer101IL

05-08-2008 07:34:46




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 Re: feed grinder in reply to flying belgian, 05-07-2008 10:15:34  
I believe my chickens have built in grinder , gizzard. Pigs eat everything in most any form. I have a grinder mixer but find grown animals don't neeed it ground. Babies do though.
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JMS/.MN

05-08-2008 07:20:51




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 Re: feed grinder in reply to flying belgian, 05-07-2008 10:15:34  
Some companies made two-wheeled hammermills, pto powered.



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MCL

05-07-2008 15:58:57




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 Re: feed grinder in reply to flying belgian, 05-07-2008 10:15:34  
Don't know about your household but my wife would have a fit if I used the blender to make chicken feed. She wasn't real pleased when I used a saucepan on the stove to test the thermostat out of the 1800 Oliver.



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