200kg Stainless Steel Feed Mixer – Kenya

Farmers formulating their own poultry or pig feed quickly discover that grinding grain is only half the job — an unmixed pile of maize meal, soybean cake, and premix sitting in separate layers is not a balanced ration, no matter how correctly each ingredient was weighed. The 200kg Stainless Steel Feed Mixer is Cadeda’s answer for small and growing farms: a batch mixer sized to blend up to 200kg of feed ingredients per cycle into a genuinely uniform ration, built entirely in food-grade stainless steel for the surface that actually touches your animals’ feed.

Stainless steel construction is not a cosmetic upgrade on a feed mixer — it is a hygiene decision. Mild steel drums pit and rust with repeated exposure to feed moisture and premix chemicals, and rust flakes ending up in a poultry or pig ration is a genuine health risk, not just an aesthetic problem. A stainless drum, by contrast, cleans down easily between batches, resists corrosion indefinitely under normal use, and does not contaminate feed with metal oxidation over years of daily operation — which is exactly why every commercial feed miller specifies stainless contact surfaces regardless of farm size.

Built for consistent, small-batch blending

At 200kg capacity per batch, this mixer is sized for farms producing their own feed at a scale beyond hand-mixing with a shovel but below the volumes that justify a full commercial ribbon mixer. The mixing paddles are arranged to fold ingredients through each other repeatedly during the mix cycle, ensuring premix, minerals, and smaller-volume additives get distributed evenly through the bulk of maize meal and protein sources rather than settling in pockets — a common problem with manual mixing that leads to some animals getting too much of a supplement and others too little. A single electric motor drives the mixing action, and the compact frame footprint fits into a standard feed store or milling shed without requiring a dedicated new structure.

Ideal applications

• Layer and broiler farms mixing their own mash from milled maize, soybean cake, and premix
• Pig farms formulating grower and finisher rations on-site
• Small feed retailers blending custom orders for local farmer customers
• Dairy units mixing concentrate supplements into a consistent daily ration
• Agrovet shops offering a milling-and-mixing service alongside input sales

Uniform mixing directly affects animal performance and farm profitability — a poorly mixed batch means some birds or pigs under-consume critical nutrients while others over-consume them, both of which show up as inconsistent growth rates and wasted feed cost. Cadeda delivers the 200kg Stainless Steel Feed Mixer nationwide, with our technicians confirming correct electrical connection and running a live demonstration batch before handover, so your team sees exactly how long a full 200kg mix should take and what a properly blended ration looks like.

Farmers new to on-farm feed formulation often underestimate how much a properly functioning mixer changes the actual economics of mixing your own feed versus buying pre-mixed commercial rations. The whole cost argument for self-mixing rests on being able to buy raw maize, soybean cake, and premix separately at lower combined cost than a finished commercial bag — but that saving only materialises if the finished mix is genuinely uniform, because an unevenly mixed batch effectively wastes the premix and mineral ingredients that account for a disproportionate share of total ration cost. A dedicated stainless steel mixer is what actually makes the self-mixing economics work in practice rather than just in theory, turning correctly proportioned raw ingredients into a ration that performs the way the formulation predicts. Loading order also matters for best results — adding larger-volume ingredients like maize meal first, then layering in smaller-volume items like premix and minerals partway through the cycle, generally produces a more even final blend than dumping everything in at once.