FeedForm Diet Formulation Tool
FeedForm is a diet formulation package built in Microsoft Access that runs under the Windows operating system. It is available as an MDB file for users who have Microsoft Access installed on their computers. It is available in a runtime package for those who do not have Microsoft Access installed on their computers.
- Download for those who have Microsoft Access installed on their computers
FeedForm zip file. This file is incompatible with Microsoft Access 2013 under Microsoft Windows 7, but seems to work otherwise. Instructions: Download the zip file and extract the files to a new folder on your computer. Click on FeedForm.mdb to start the program. - Download for those who do not have Microsoft Access installed on their computers
Click here for 177 MByte runtime package. This is a large file because it includes a runtime version of Microsoft Access.
FeedForm calculation notes (for MLT)
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Cornell Small Ruminant Management List Server
Click here to join the Cornell University sheepgoatmanagement list server. The purpose of the list server is to ask about and exchange information about sheep and goat management.
Frequently used
- Sheep & Goat Marketing
- New Holland Monday prices
- Pennsylvania Weekly Livestock Sales Summary
- Historical New Holland Monday prices - In item 1 (find results), enter LN_LS322
- Commodity futures prices
- By-product ingredient prices from the University of Missouri
Solar grazing
From Cornell University
- 2014 Cornell Sheep & Goat Symposium handouts
- Control of internal parasites (Cornell Small Ruminant Parasites site)
- Cornell Cooperative Extension
- Cornell Cooperative Extension Field Staff
- Cornell Beef Cattle Management
- Cornell Goat Management
- Cornell Small Farms Program
- Bulletin on cutting meat
- Department of Animal Science
- Low Input Lambing & Kidding
- New Concepts of Sheep Growth (Rex Butterfield)
- New Concepts of Cattle Growth (Roy Berg and Rex Butterfield)
- Sheep tipping video
Dairy sheep
- Guide to Raising Dairy Sheep (Yves Berger, Claire Mikolayunas, David Thomas - University of Wisconsin)
- Proceedings of Dairy Sheep Symposia
- Searchable PDF of titles of Proceedings of Dairy Sheep Symposia
- Effect of growth rate on milk production (University of Wisconsin)
- Principles of Sheep Dairying in North America
- Solar Grazing
From other academic and Extension sources
- Interstate Animal Movement Requirements (state import requirements for livestock)
- Livestock Guardian Dogs (Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension)
- Maryland Small Ruminant Page (Susan Schoenian)
- Oklahoma State University breeds of livestock
- Sheep & Goat Research Journal
- USDA Soil Survey Maps
- USDA Meat, Poultry and Egg Product Inspection Directory
- Wisconsin Sheep and Goat Extension
From industry
- American Sheep Industry Association
- Best Practice Resources (from ASI)
- Dairy Sheep Association of North America
- Dairy One (feed analysis)
- Empire Alpaca Association
- Empire Sheep Producers Association
- Empire State Meat Goat Producers Association
- National Lamb Feeders Association
- New River Valley Sheep & Goat Club
- SheepBytes Ration Balancing
- Sheep Care Guide
- United States Border Collie Club
- United States Lamb Resource Center (marketing American lamb)
- Values of breeding sheep (from ASI)
- Working dog liability insurance
- Wool Journal
Books
- ASI Sheep Care Guide
- Sheep & Goat Research Journal
- Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep: Breeds, Care, Facilities (search for this on-line)
- The Sheep Book (by Ron Parker) (search for this on-line)
Wool
- 2020 Sheep Shearers in the Northeast
- NYS Wool Branding Report
- ASI Shearing Data Base Form (Word doc)
- ASI Shearer Directory
- Battenkill Fibers
- Black Sheep Handspinners Guild
- Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land
- Carolina Specialy, Inc. (Wool processing equipment)
- Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers Ltd.
- Faribault Woolen Mill
- Fiber Crafts
- Fibershed
- Fingerlakes Woolen Mill
- Helen Trejo (Fiber designer and fibershed expert)
- Heritage Wool Blankets
- Horner Shearing (equipment that runs off 12-Volt battery)
- Howard Brush (cards for sheep and wool)
- Ithaca SheepSkin
- IWTO Wool Sheep Welfare
- MacAusland's Woollen Mill
- Midstates Wool Growers Cooperative Association
- New York Guilds
- New York State Regional Yarn Sourcebook by Helen Trejo, PhD
- Nistock Farms
- Shearers and other fiber information
- Shearing instructions (from Premier1)
- Stanley Bulbach (fiber artist)
- Yocom-McColl Wool Testing Lab
- 20160511 Cornell Sheep Sale
- Cornell STAR-managed sheep flock data summaries
- Vaccination against overeating disease (click on toggle on health page)
- Feeding ewes with triplet lambs
- Observations on the effect of adding water to feed on lamb pneumonia
More details about past, present, and future sheep research at Cornell University will be coming soon.
Michael L. Thonney, Professor
Director, Cornell Sheep Program and Graduate Field of Animal Science
114 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
mlt2@cornell.edu
607-592-5891
Dan L. Brown, Associate Professor
Nutritional Toxicologist
320 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
607-255-4027
dlb20@cornell.edu
tatiana L. Stanton, Extension Associate
Goat Specialist
114 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
tls7@cornell.edu
607-254-6024
Niko Kochendoerfer, PhD Student and Graduate Assistant
110 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
nk584@cornell.edu
Cornell Cooperative Extension Field Educators (posted on Mike Baker's Beef Cattle web site)
Major revision: October 2015
Please contact Niko Kochendoerfer at nk584@cornell.edu if you can't find something from the previous version.
Copyright © 2015 Michael L. Thonney
