Conditioned mash: An overlooked feed form for livestock

Many scientific articles have compared the effects of feed form including mash, pellet and crumble in animal nutrition. Pelleting is an expensive and bottleneck process in feed manufacturing but pellet is the major form of feed used and has many advantages compared to mash form. The pelleting process is a combination of 2 steps applied to mash feed: Conditioning (hydrothermal-mechanical process in a conditioner) and Agglomeration (pushing the conditioned mash feed through the die hole to make