500kg Livestock Vertical Feed Mixer

As a poultry or livestock operation scales past a handful of pens, batch size becomes the bottleneck — mixing 200kg five times a day to feed a growing flock eats labour hours that should be going elsewhere on the farm. Cadeda’s 500kg Vertical Feed Mixer addresses that directly with a vertical-auger mixing design that handles two-and-a-half times the batch size of a small mixer, without the floor footprint a horizontal mixer of the same capacity would demand.

Vertical mixers work on a different principle than horizontal paddle mixers: a central auger lifts material from the base of the cone-shaped hopper up through the middle and lets it cascade back down around the outside, repeating that lift-and-fall cycle until the full 500kg batch reaches a uniform blend. This design uses less horsepower per kilogram mixed than an equivalent horizontal unit, because gravity does much of the redistribution work rather than paddles forcing material sideways against drum walls — which also means lower long-term energy costs on a machine running multiple batches daily.

Space-efficient scale for growing operations

Because the mixing action happens vertically rather than along a long horizontal drum, this mixer occupies a noticeably smaller floor footprint than a horizontal 500kg unit — a real advantage for farms retrofitting a feed-mixing setup into an existing store room rather than building new. The cone-bottom hopper design also empties more completely between batches than a flat-bottomed horizontal drum, reducing the risk of old feed residue sitting in corners and going rancid before the next mix, which matters for feed hygiene on a machine running daily.

Ideal applications

• Medium-scale poultry farms mixing daily mash for several hundred birds
• Pig units producing consistent grower and finisher rations at higher daily volume
• Dairy cooperatives blending concentrate feed for member farms
• Feed retail outlets needing larger batch sizes to serve wholesale customers
• Farms consolidating multiple small mixing sessions into fewer, larger batches to save labour

Moving from a 200kg batch mixer to a 500kg vertical unit is typically the step growing farms take once daily feed demand consistently exceeds what two or three small batches comfortably cover — it cuts the number of mixing cycles needed per day while keeping blend quality consistent across the larger volume. Cadeda delivers and installs the 500kg Vertical Feed Mixer countrywide, with our team confirming the mounting surface can handle the loaded weight and demonstrating a full mix cycle before we leave your farm.

Farms making the jump to this scale of mixer should also think through their upstream grinding capacity at the same time, since a 500kg mixer running efficiently needs a grinding source — whether that’s Cadeda’s 2 Ton/Hr Heavy Duty Hammer Mill or a smaller in-house mill — capable of supplying ground material fast enough to keep the mixer’s cycle times reasonable rather than sitting half-loaded waiting on grain. Storage planning matters just as much: a 500kg finished batch needs enough clean, pest-proof bag or bin storage to hold the output until it’s fed out, and farms that skip this planning step often end up with feed sitting exposed in the mixing area, undoing much of the hygiene benefit the machine was bought to deliver in the first place. Our technicians factor both of these considerations into the installation visit, checking your full feed-handling workflow rather than just positioning the machine and walking away.