Patent ID: 6168803
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: A23K

Abstract:
A process for preparing a rigid animal feedblock comprising the steps of: (a) mixing liquid nutritive components, optionally with a water soluble nutritive component, with an edible source of either sulfur or phosphorus to provide a sulfate or phosphate nutritive aqueous feed mixture; (b) mixing the aqueous feed mixture with dry to semi-moist nutritive ingredients and at least one alkaline earth metal oxide until a substantially uniform, cohesive, non-pumpable, non-flowable mixture is obtained; (c) transferring the mixture to a receiver; (d) compressing the mixture in the receiver at a pressure and for a time sufficient until any entrained air within the mixture is expelled to provide a compressed feedblock; and (e) curing the compressed feedblock by allowing the compressed feedblock to remain undisturbed for a time sufficient to obtain a rigid feedblock.