Starts: Sunday, 23rd September 2012
Ends: Friday, 28th September 2012
Name of event
Aquaculture Feed Extrusion, Nutrition & Feed Management
19th Annual Practical Short Course
Location of event
Texas USA
Description of event
A one-week Course will be presented at Texas A&M University by staff, industry representative and consultants.
This program will cover information on designing new feed mills and selecting conveying, drying, grinding, conditioning and feed mixing equipment.
Current practices for preparing full-fat soy meal processing; recycling fisheries by-products, raw animal products, and secondary resources; raw material, extrusion of floating, sinking, and high fat feeds; spraying and coating fats, digests and preservatives; use of encapsulated ingredients and preparation of premixes, nutritional requirements of warn water fish and shrimp, feed managements and least cost formulation are reviewed.
Practical demonstration of sinking, floating, and high fat aqua-feed, are demonstrated on four major types of extruders - dry, interrupted flights, single and twin screw), using various shaping dies.
Other demonstrations include: vacuum coating and lab analysis of the raw material for extrusion.
For more information, programs and application forms, contact: Dr Mian N. Riaz mnriaz@tamu.edu
Event website address
www.tamu.edu/extrusion
