POULTRY FAT                                                          

Description

Poultry fat is a premium ingredient often used in feed rations. Poultry fat is naturally high in essential fatty acids. It is also the lowest titre animal fat available, reducing handling and heating challenges.

Poultry Fat use

In animal nutrition, fat is used as an effective energy source since its energy density is 2.2 times higher than that of carbohydrates. Thus fats are used in feed concentrates and diets where high caloric feeds are needed, e.g. calf or poultry feed. They also increase the digestibility of fat-soluble vitamins and provide essential fatty acids, that are essential in growth processes of all animals.

Production process

Animal fat, whether it is produced by wet or dry rendering, is cleaned in a separate step. Different methods can be used either alone or in combination.  The installation of a sieve is often necessary when a high amount of fibers or plastics is expected. The sieve can vary from a rotating screen to a cloth filter. Sedimentation – This simple method is very often used. The fat is stored in a tank with a conical bottom where the water phase including solid sediments separates by decantation. The sedimented phase is removed at the bottom. Decanters are horizontal centrifuges that remove water and solids very quickly from the fat phase. A separator is a vertical centrifuge. Due to higher speed and the stacked discs, the cleaning results are better than for the decanter. Separators are often used for final polishing of fats after the decanter. The most common is the (self-cleaning) disc separator.