The establishment of the feed industry is directly influenced and depends on the quality of the available feeds. In other terms, feed formulation allows to quantify the ingredients combination in order to form a single mixture (feed or diet) to feed animals and supply all the nutrients to that given animal.įeed formulation is one of the important aspects in livestock farming and the livestock industry in any given country or area. “Feed formulation” is the process of matching the nutritional requirement of a given animal with the nutrient of a given raw material or ingredient, in an economic manner.
Feed formulation software are computer based mathematical programmes/models aimed at achieving least cost and maximizing profits when formulating feeds.
