In this post I share excerpts from a response I sent to a Ugandan Farm CEO who purchased my Excel-VB Ration Formulator and later had issues he needed clarification on.

This was regarding nutrient levels of livestock feed ingredients.

I share my response here because I believe it offers  information!education that others interested in Feed Formulation may find useful.

Below: His email request

Good morning,

Below are the current ingredients we are using in Uganda. Kindly get me the nutrient levels as listed below;

Crude Protein Percentage
Fibre
Energy levels
Phosphorous levels
Calcium levels

Dry matter among others so as to enable me use the software better as many of the ingredients used in your area are not applicable in Uganda.

Also customise the software to that.

1 Maize Bran 2 Maize 3 Sunflower Seed Cake
4 Cotton Seed Cake 5 Fish meal (Silver fish)
6 Common Salt
7Limestone (As a replacement for shells due to the high sand content in shells here.
8 Calcium (DCP) 9 Layer Premix 10 Salcurb/Acido mix 11 Toxic binder
Thanks.

Below: My response

Hi Peter,

I’m sending the zipped app as an attachment to this email. It should download and work OK.

Now, on to your other message…

Your first request:

My response: I understand your request, however, the purpose of providing this kind of solution is exactly why it’s best that YOU get those details yourself. I’ve written one or two articles explaining this in the past. Will find and send you the links to read(See below)

You see, feed ingredients vary in their chemical/nutrient composition due to a variety of factors – including the weather and soil of the area they are grown in. So, if I supplied you those details based on what we have here, they would NOT necessarily represent what YOU would actually have in the ingredients you plan to use!

So, the way to use my app is to START by sending whatever ingredients you use to the laboratory for nutrient composition analysis. The results you get will enable you complete the Feed Ingredients table in the software.

Which brings me to your second request

My response: Actually, in line with my code of ethics, all my applications are designed to enable users post customized settings into them.

So, when you login to the app, and the main navigation menu loads, you will see the yellow colored button labelled, Update Feed Ingredients. Just click on it, and you will be taken to the table where you can post your entries in any order you want, and delete any you do not want.

Once you go back to the Feed Formulation table, you will see that the drop menus already have the new values you posted.

Peter, the above is all explained in the PDF userguide I sent you. Also check the 4 large images I sent in the previous mail to you. They are annotated photos of the different software interfaces, with instructions on what to do and how.

WATCH VIDEOS: http://tinyurl.com/RealRationDemo

Please take time to study those guide resources. – but if you still have problems let me know.

Cheers,

Tayo

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