Elephant happy with Arie Blok and BESTMIX

Elephant happy with Arie Blok and BESTMIX.

Arie Blok produces feed for mice up to elephants. Bestmix supplies the appropriate recipe.

Arie Blok is one of the larger grain producing companies in the Netherlands. Besides product under its own label, it also supplies a whole series of end products and semi-finished products to fellow-companies under private label.

Since the takeover of Hope Farms in 1980, Arie Blok also produces specific feed products, like for zoos. Zoo animals require specially adapted feed. As specialist literature offers insufficient information, special feed products are realised through practical experience, library search and trial and error.

An example: Originally, giraffe were fed common cattle feed. Based on new insights, Arie Blok created appropriate browser pellets, with an adapted fibre content.

Arie Blok and BESTMIX

When Arie Blok receives a request for an a specific feed for certain animal species by a zoo, the existing or a comparable recipe is taken as point of departure. This copy is optimised by BESTMIX. By means of simulation, several ingredients are added until the recipe is at its best. This results in a new optimal feed, which can be optimised again later as a result of new insights.

A few examples of Arie Blok's zoo specialties

Elephant cubes

Roughage is the main constituent of the food ration for elephants. Concentrate is needed to meet the elephant’s nutritional requirements, which roughage and oats do not contain sufficiently or in the wrong proportions.

The quantity of minerals is increased in winter because of a different winter ration.

Langur Pellets

An apple flavoured maintenance feed for langurs. The feed is fully based on the nutritional needs of leave-eating primates, and contains a high content of crude cellulose.

More on Arie Blok

The family company Arie Blok has been active since 1839. What began as a grains and grain products trade, developed around 1900 into a feed producing company with great perspectives. Arie Blok is one of the larger grain producing companies in the Netherlands. Besides product under its own label, it also supplies a whole series of end products and semi-finished products to fellow-companies under private label. The last decennia, the company not only manufactured feed for professional applictions, such as for cattle, pigs and poultry but also created and marketed a wide range of hobby feed products. This was such a success, that Arie Blok has turned completely from a feed mill into a producer of specialized feed products.

Under the company name Arie Blok Diervoeding, the following brands are carried:

	Kasper Faunafood (hobby feed) Kasper Faunafood ZOO Specialties
	HippoStar (feed for horses)
	Arie Blok (animal feed, grains and grain products
	Hope Farms (feed for rodents)
	Canex Dynamic (feed for dogs)

These brands have proven their value and power through the years and have become well known in pet shops.

Want to know more about Arie Blok? Check out www.arieblok.nl

Author: Bea Van Deynse Updated: 11.10.2006 10:35