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Abstract

A plant for manufacturing long-fiber legume hay and grass hay-based feed pellets for zootechnical use includes a loading station loading predetermined amounts of the hays, a processing station processing the hays to reduce fiber length to a predetermined average value, a mixing station mixing the reduced hays with predetermined amounts of binders and nutritional additives to obtain a dough, a forming station forming the dough which has a collection chamber, a forming die communicating with the collection chamber, and an extrusion passage, a pushing element, held within the collection chamber and feeding the dough toward said passage, an extruder downstream of the pushing element and moving in the collection chamber to cyclically push predetermined amounts of dough into the passage and form a stratified bead of dough, and a breaking system for breaking the bead forming stratified feed pellets. A method of manufacturing long-fiber feed pellets for zootechnical use.

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