Animal Nutrition & Ration Formulation Diploma

Why digestion controls everything in animal nutrition

(Why animals don’t always eat what we expect them to)

Understanding vitamins is critical for ration formulation, especially when natural feeds are insufficient or processing reduces vitamin availability.

The Pearson square or box method of balancing rations is a simple procedure that has been used for many years. It is of greatest value when only two ingredients are to be mixed. In taking a close look at the square, several numbers are in and around the square. Probably one of the more important numbers is the number that appears in the middle of the square. This number represents the nutritional requirement of an animal for a specific nutrient. It may be crude protein or TDN, amino acids, minerals or vitamins.

In this lecture you will learn how to use Pearson Square method by example to create a simple ration using Soybean Meal and Corn.

Continuing on the last lecture, here we will validate the results we had from the previous example and check that the numbers we got are correct and our ration requirements are satisfied.

In this lecture you will be learning how to use pearson to create animal diet and balance it for protein using 4 feed ingredients.

In this lecture we will formulate a broiler starter ration using:

1. Corn

2. Soybean meal

3. Oats

4. Fishmeal

5. Di-Cal

6. Limestone

and we will balance for:

1. CP

2. Energy

3. Calcium

4. Phosphorus

5. Lysine

In this lecture we will learn how to modify a ration to reduce costs.

In this lesson we learn how to add new ingredient and balance a poultry broiler finisher ration

Creating animal rations is costly and require modern mathematical methods that takes in consideration the price of each ingredient to balance between nutrient requirement and prices. That is why we will take a deep look into the Simplex Method and learn how to use it to make least cost animal ration.

SysnovaFeed is a revolutionary free/open-source least-cost feed formulation software by Sysnova Information Systems Limited.

SysnovaFeed software is a comprehensive free/open-source tool designed to meet the formulation needs of professional nutritionists and feed producers.

• The free/open-source nature of SysnovaFeed also makes it ideal for use in academic institutions and universities.

• SysnovaFeed is user-friendly and simple to download and set up on any desktop or laptop computer.

• SysnovaFeed is customizable and easily allows any nutritionist to enter unlimited numbers of ingredients and formulations.

SysnovaFeed aims to bring benefits of the free/open-source software movement to the global livestock industry.

Functional Features:

Ingredients: SysnovaFeed contains a default nutritional database for major ingredients like maize/corn, wheat, wheat bran, rice, rice bran, soybean meal and soybean oil based on nutritional specifications. Users can edit these nutritional specifications and add unlimited ingredients.

Formulations: SysnovaFeed contains default formulations for well-known breeds of commercial layers based on published nutritional standards of breeding companies. Users can edit these formulations and add unlimited new formulations.

Prices: SysnovaFeed comes with a default set of prices which the user can update to reflect current market rates.

Technical Features :

• SysnovaFeed desktop formulation software is released under an open-source license which means it will never require any license fee.

• SysnovaFeed formulation software has been developed in Java programming language, which supports all computer operating systems (MS Windows, Mac and Linux).

• An Android app will also be released in future.

• All formulation, ingredient and price data is stored in free/open-source H2 database, which is also written in Java and will work in any platform.

• Least-cost optimization is done by free/open-source Gnu Linear Programming Kit (https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/).

The compound tab is where we prepare our ingredients and create our ration.

EZ Ration Processor is Feed Ration Calculator for cows which you can use to mix three ingredients and get a useful report back.

Link: http://www.ezration.com/ration_calculator.php