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Abstract

A process for preparing a complete ration for confined animals is disclosed. The ration is in solid form and supplies the animals water requirements and nutritional requirements. The ration is prepared by adding an edible gum to water, heating the combined water and edible gum to a temperature effective to solubilize the edible gum, combining the water and gum with a basal feed composition containing the animals nutritional requirement and with a carbohydrate, maintaining the combined materials at a temperature below the gelatinizing temperature of the carbohydrate, dispensing the heated combination into portions and cooling the dispensed portions to form a water containing gelled solid food article.

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