Patent ID: 8273400

Claim:
A method of manufacturing total mixed ration equine biscuits, the method comprising: (a) mixing and suspending fibrous material, wherein mixing and suspending fibrous material includes: providing a fibrous material; placing the fibrous material into a vertical blender, wherein placing the fibrous material into the vertical blender includes mixing the fibrous material and cutting the fibrous material and defines a mixed and cut fibrous material, mixing one or more nutritional supplements with the mixed and cut fibrous material in the vertical blender, and suspending the mixture of the one or more nutritional supplements and the mixed and cut fibrous material within the vertical blender to form a suspended feed; (b) transferring and metering the suspended feed, wherein transferring and metering the suspended feed includes: transferring the suspended feed on a conveyer to a metering box to form metered feed; and (c) densifying the metered feed, wherein densifying the metered feed includes: transferring the metered feed to a second mixer, mixing the metered feed with the second mixer, pressure impregnating at least some of the one or more nutritional supplements into at least some of the fibers of the fibrous material to formed a pressure impregnated metered feed, and extruding the pressure impregnated metered feed to form a plurality of total mixed ration biscuits that each have a relatively consistent nutritional balance.