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Wood Shavings Drying Machine For Poultry Houses Bedding

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Using wood shavings as bedding is essential for chicken farms. It cushions poultry feet, absorbs manure moisture to cut ammonia smell, insulates temperature for chicks, generates less dust to protect chicken respiratory systems, and the waste mixture of shavings and manure can be fermented into organic fertilizer easily with low overall cost.


For a quality of wood shavings as bedding for chicken farms, surely it can not be wet wood shavings which's moisture content usually is up to about 40-50%. Usually the needed moisture content of dry wood shavings should be less than 15%, thus we have to find ways to make it dry firstly.

Wood Shavings Drying Machine For Poultry Houses Bedding,

Wood Shavings Drying Machine designed by Sunco Machinery can ideally to solve this issue. Our dryer adopts high temperature quick and continuous drying mode.  By burning fuel to generate hot air, then the hot air heats the wet wood shavings, and remove its moisture content. During the drying process, the wet wood shavings keeps passing through the dryer drum, and it takes about 25 minutes to pass through the dryer body, when it leaves the dryer, its moisture content can drop down to be about 15%.

Wood Shavings for chicken farm bedding

The drying temperature inside the wood shavings drying machine is higher than 120 centigrades, during about 25 minutes drying time, not only the water is evaporated, but also the high temperature helps to kill the harmful bacterials, and protect the chickens against microbes.


For a good quality wood shaivngs as chicken farm bedding, usually we have to separate out the wood powder which is not good for the little birds. What is more, too thick wood shavings also is not good which may hurt the chicken feet, thus here one rotary drum sieve is necessary.


According to the clients' actual need, Sunco Machinery can design and supply different capacities of wood shavings drying machine such as 1 t/h, 2 t/h, 3 t/h, etc.

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