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

Monday 16th January 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 049: You Can Formulate Rations for ANY Animal, by Applying Feed Formulation Science Based on Nutrient Requirements

In this issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, I feature photo based highlights from the One-On-One On Demand Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Training session I had on – Fri 13^th January 2017 – with O. Mojeed, a Farm CEO who traveled down from his Benin City-Edo State base to meet me in Lagos.

Among other things, I explain that Feed Formulation is a science based on universal principles. That  makes it possible for YOU to Formulate Rations for ANY Animal, by applying your understanding of the science based on a sound understanding of THAT animal’s nutritional needs!

We began by reviewing the various feed ingredients being measured out on table top scales as they were dispensed to buyers at the front end of the feed mill.

I showed him the different ingredients, like Palm Kernel Cake, in ground form, stored in bags.

I conversed with a lady manager at the sales point, who confirmed that they still sold Ground Nut Cake, noting that with regard to my query about mould infestation (which can cause Aflatoxin poisining of animals) they had a strict rule of ensuring First-In First-Out rotation of the ingredients, in addition to storing them in well ventilated rooms.

Moving to other sections, we came across vendors selling imported fish meal of different brands, as well as other resources like fish nets etc. Conversing with the owners/managers proved useful as we got prices and brand names, including protein content specifications for each.

Later on, we looked at the crusher (where bone meal, Oyster shell and other hard form ingredients are milled into fine form required for use in feed formulation.

Then in another section we watched a hammer mill in operation, operating at what one of the personnel told us is a 1 to 1.5 ton capacity.

Next to it was a mixer, a feed pellet making machine as well as a dryer.

Photos of the above mentioned machines appear, with annotations in my FREE 30 page Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients, which every buyer of my Feed Formulation Handbook (or the Home Study Feed Formulation Tutorial Video Series) gets.

Below are excerpts from the introductory video clip for the home study series in which I offer insights into what to expect from the handbook, and the video.

Welcome. I’m Tayo Solagbade – and this is the introduction to the home study version of my feed Formulation Training.

It’s based on the Practical Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook I wrote in 2002 and which I’ve updated once in 2004 since then.

What you see on the screen is the cover page. For each paid client I put your name, email address and phone number on this cover.

That is designed to let you know that you are entitled to the promised benefits from making payment for my product(s) e.g. a FREE copy of the Annotated Pictorial Introduction to Feed Ingredients which you would have received as a PDF in your email along with the handbook.

If in addition to the handbook, you also purchased my Excel-VB Ration Formulator software, you would also have become a life member of my Cost-Saving farm Business Ideas club.

Below is the table of contents for the handbook. In this home study video series I will be providing step-by-step explanations in a similar manner to what I would do, if you were physically with me in a classroom or workshop setting.

So the purpose is ultimately to enable you experience what it would feel like to actually be like to meet with me in person, in case you are unable to come down for the one-on-one training session.

If however you are able to make it to the LIVE face to face practical session, this video series would serve as a supplement to what you would have experienced during the one-on-one session held at the premises of the feed milling company I would have taken you to.

In essence this video series gives you an opportunity to learn and/or revisit what you need to know as many times as you want, in the comfort and privacy of your home, office or any other personal space you may choose to use.

An important clarification

Now, I want to point out straight away here that in as much as this handbook was originally written based on Feed Formulation for Poultry, the truth of the matter is that Feed Formulation itself is a science, and there are certain principles that are universal in the practice of Feed Formulation.

It is therefore the understanding of how to apply those principles that will vary in terms of meeting the nutritional needs of different groups and classes of livestock being reared under intensive commercial settings.

And that’s where the difference occurs in feed formulation for different livestock types.

So in as much as we may use examples related to Poultry Farming, if you take the pains to learn about the digestive systems of different kinds of farm animals and their corresponding nutritional requirements (I have special video clips that teach them), you will have no problems using the principles of feed formulation to derive rations for different animal groups/types (and for the different classes within groups/types).

You just need to understand how to deliver nutrients to the different animals, what kinds of nutrients they need, in what amounts and of course what form they need them.

Once you understand the science involved, it becomes easy to apply that understanding in formulating rations for different kinds of animals.

For instance, we have farm animals that are ruminants (like dairy and beef cattle, goats, sheep etc) which are therefore able to get more value from material they ingest as feed compared to the ones that are monogastric.

The former have a digestive system that enables them to break down cellulose (so they are able to consume high fibre diets), which is not possible for monograstric animals like rabbits and poultry. Such differences between animals influence the manner in which you formulate rations for them.

So the way you formulate rations for dairy cattle, sheep and goats will differ from the way you formulate rations for rabbits, pigs, poultry etc. But the underlying science remains the same.

I have special screenshot explainer video clips I will be providing to each buyer of my home study Feed Formulation video series, about how to formulate rations for the different animal types, in a way that addresses their unique nutritional needs.

If truth be told, so long as you know what you’re doing, based on a sound understanding of the science of feed formulation and compounding, you will have no difficulty successfully formulating and compounding rations for different kinds of animals

My PDF Feed Formulation Handbook offers a very useful foundation on which to do the above.

Correction: January 19, 2017
Due to an error during editing, an earlier version of this article briefly had the same title as a previous issue of this PII newsletter.

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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.

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EXCEL-VB DRIVEN POULTRY LAYER FARM MANAGER SOFTWARE

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THE FARM CEO (Issue 70): Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria AESON conference coming up in April 2017 [ Deadline for submission of Abstracts now January 31st, 2017]

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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