The rotary crusher allows you to qualitatively grind pressed roughage. The authors proposed and developed an improved technological scheme of an impact crusher equipped with two beaters for dosed transfer to the grinding chamber. The impact crusher consists of a transfer chute, metering beaters, a chopping chamber, a rotor, chopping knives, fixed knives, an exit chute, a feed bin and an electric motor. The efficiency of work is determined by the following parameters: length, width and thickness of knives, rotor speed. The purpose of the work is to substantiate the parameters of the rotor and its knives. Analytical dependencies are obtained to determine the parameters of the knife. Theoretical studies have established that the minimum length of the knife should be 6.9 cm, the width of the knife is 50 mm, and its thickness is 4 mm. A model for the theoretical calculation of the probability of grinding roughage of the required size within the limits of zootechnical requirements has been obtained. Based on the calculations, the probability of cutting the feed of the required size, depending on the number of rotation of the rotors, was established.