A free cellular app for rooster farmers is ready to make optimum poultry diet simpler, whereas additionally serving to farmers get monetary savings and enhance income.
The brand new FeedMixer App is designed by poultry diet specialists on the Poultry Science Division on the College of Georgia within the US and funded by the World Poultry Basis, to handle a significant problem rooster farmers face. Many self-mix their rooster feed resulting from rising industrial feed prices and restricted provide of sure grains, however typically discover it tough to attain the suitable steadiness of vitamins.
Maureen Stickel, Director of Worldwide Program Growth on the World Poultry Basis, says: “When feeding birds, it’s about vitamins, not simply amount of feed. With the suitable feed combine, they are going to be more healthy and extra productive. The FeedMixer app guides farmers on feed mixes for layers, broilers, and dual-purpose birds at varied ages. We particularly labored to incorporate a big library of feed elements, with their dietary values, to information farmers.”
Customers merely click on on the kind of chickens they’re feeding, and choose the elements they’ve accessible to them, within the proportions they intend to mix. The app will point out whether or not their chosen combine delivers ample power, protein, fibre, nutritional vitamins and minerals to nourish the birds with out wastage. Customers also can enter the price of the elements they use, to calculate whether or not their feed combine is value efficient.
Prof. Sean Chen, Assistant Professor/Extension Specialist on the Division of Poultry Science on the College of Georgia, says: “The FeedMixer app is designed for ease of use by folks with a fundamental poultry background – together with yard and rising rooster farmers. With the app, we are attempting to make it easy for farmers to make use of native elements to formulate a eating regimen that meets fundamental poultry diet necessities and obtain their fundamental manufacturing objectives.”
FeedMixer is out there in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese.
The FeedMixer app is out there right here: https://play.google.com/retailer/apps/particulars?id=com.worldpoultryfoundation.feedmixer
