FeedForm - A simple diet formulation program

FeedForm

Formulate

Formulation of a complete feed

Enter a diet name, date, and the name of the person who formulated the diet:

feedtop

Note that the animal type selected in the Animal Feed Components table is displayed:

formanimal

Note that all the suggested components are shown with the concentrations in the DM of the feed, the suggested levels, and the difference between feed and suggested levels:

Form check

The "Balancer" column specifies which ingrediet will be subtracted when another ingredient is added:

FeedForm balancer column

Concentrations of ingredients can be entered manually in either the "% of DM" column:

form % DM

or the concentration can be entered in the % As-fed column:

Form % as-fed

or the concentration of an ingredient can be determined for a particular feed component. To do this, first click the check box above the component:

Form component

Then, click the "Substitute" check box for the ingredient that will be used to increase the concnetration of the selected component:

FeedForm Substitute

Note that after the diet is reasonably-well balnced, the "As-fed" concentrations can be rounded off to an appropriate number of decimal places.

Ingredient costs can also be edited in this window, but all other changes to the ingredients table must be edited from the ingredients pane in the main window.

FeedForm Cost

The new diet can be added to the list of feed ingredients as a new ingredient:

Feed form add to ingredient