These have resulted in the production of feed formulation feed management softwares available for purchase and download from the internet. INTRODUCTION Feed formulation and feed management have been major concerns to poultry nutritionists all over the world. These Microsoft excel – asssisted packages are intended for presentation and criticisms for a possible software development. It extimates toatal feed and cost of feed required, thus a least cost approach as it saves cost from feed wastage. The model gives an extimate of feed requirements of birds at variuos ages. A feed management model is also been developed. It therefore implies that, one keeps adjusting the nutrient quantities until the required protein and energy levels are met. This, on a click shows the new protein and energy levels. It only requires the cueing-in of ingredients and their required quantities. It is user-friendly and does not require complex or repeated calculations at different levels, or when feed ingredients are changed. This excel – assisted feed formulation model has been developed by use of simple arithmetics. A feed formulation model has been developed using Microsoft excel package.
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