Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 13th March 2017

NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 057: Storing & Handling Livestock Feed Ingredients for Feed Formulation – Highlights from Tayo Solagbade’s FREE PDF Annotated Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients

This write-up is based on excerpts from my 30 page Annotated Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients – a FREE report which EVERY buyer of my popular 60 page Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook gets.

Since publishing my popular Feed Formulation Handbook in 2002, I have developed an automated MS-Excel Visual Basic driven Ration Formulation application that works based on the Pearson Square computation method described in my handbook.

In 2006, I launched a Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas website as a precursor to the Farm Research and Extensions Advisory Services support centre – which I now call Farm Business Support Centre (FBSC).

That website has rapidly grown popular, drawing enquiries from with and well outside the country (in the Middle East, Asia Europe and America).

In the course of relating with buyers of my products (including providing one-on-one practical coaching in feed formulation), and providing custom software development service for farm business owners, I realized the need to provide a report like this, which will be periodically updated, as a quick guide/introduction to feed ingredients.

This document does NOT provide an exhaustive listing of feed ingredients used for all livestock.

What I have tried to do is focus on those main and more popular ones used frequently by most farmers and which are readily available in adequate quantities in the marketplace.

Where appropriate I have mentioned the need to explore potential alternative ingredients to certain high demand ones like Maize/Corn. But I did not provide any details about those alternatives.

What I plan to do is to discuss potential alternative ingredients with a good chance of effectively replacing existing expensive or high demand ingredients, in a series of articles.

The block of text below announces the first of such articles, published as a guest post on www.africabusinesscommunities.com.

Read my guest post titled “Reducing Catfish Feeding Costs (A Secret Weapon)” at http://tayosolagbade.com/sdnuggets/reducing-catfish-feeding-costs-a-secret-weapon.

To get a complete and FREE PDF version with clickable URLs to many useful reports, publication and websites that offer even more data, send an email to tayo@tksola.com. This offer is ONLY for owners of the feed formulation handbook.

1. Photo: A Feed Ingredients Store In A Warehouse Along Oko-Oba Road, Agege, Lagos.

Conditions under which the feed ingredients you use for your feed compounding are stored, should ALWAYS interest you.

When you visit a feed mill try to ask questions and even look around the facility to get a feel for the handling meted out their feed ingredients, and the feed being compounded. I have seen mill operatives fill ingredients into bags half lying in the rain, without bothering to move them. If you happen to keep such bags of feed long before using them up, mould growth and possible mycotoxin hazards could endanger your livestock.

If the storage has leaking roofs or windows, spoilage could also set in without your knowledge. Going out of your way to examine the odour of vulnerable ingredients like maize, fish meal, ground nut cake, soya bean and others can help detect any problems.

2. Photo: Power Change Over Panel in a Local Feed Mill along Oko-Oba road, Agege, Lagos.

Power supply availability in the Feed Mill can determine how long it takes to get your feed compounding done.

This may not seem such a big issue at first, but there may come a time when you urgently need your feed compounded and delivered for your birds – possibly due to unexpected shortages or delayed supplies of ingredients.

At such times, choosing a feed mill that has reliable alternative power supply sources can make a world of difference to your ability to achieve your goals. Keep this in mind.

3. Photo: This is a bag of growers and pigs premix

It is a vitamin/mineral source. It does not contribute any protein in the diet, and is  used in compounding customer feeds for growers and pigs (in line with specified ration formulas) in a local feed mill located along Oko-Oba road, Agege, Lagos.

It is used as a fixed factor component In Feed Formulation

Points to Note About Feed Compounding and Mixing

In the process of actually carrying out the feed compounding, most of the ingredients mentioned in the foregoing discourse – if in solid form – are usually ground using a Grinder and thoroughly mixed using a Mixer.

However, for ingredients like Oyster shell, bone meal, meat meal etc, they are milled using a Mechanical Miller before being mixed with the rest of the ingredients.

Livestock feeds can be prepared as mash, crumbs or as pellets. Pellets production is not very common for poultry, and requires the extra effort of adding fat under high temperature and pressure, so as to concentrate the nutrients/constitute the mash into particles. – See page 54 of my Feed Formulation handbook.

Excel-VB Driven Ration Formulator

1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc

2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.

Click here to contact me about purchasing this product.

SDN Blog™

New posts from last week*

Monday:

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[Thursday]:

[FREE] POWERFUL TRUTHS ABOUT REAL BLACK HISTORY, NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, BUT WHICH YOU (AND YOUR KIDS) NEED TO KNOW

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[Sunday]:

A Common Misconception About Spreadsheet Programming You Need to Know [Hint: What is Excel-VBA?]

Create a Splashscreen for Your Custom Spreadsheet Application [Part 2 of 2] – Step by Step Video Demonstration

Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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