System and method of customizing an animal feed based on heat increment
AssigneeCargill, Incorporated
InventorsMark D. Newcomb, Christiaan P. A. van de Ligt, David A. Cook, David G. Cieslak
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Abstract
A system for and method of determining a formulation for an animal feed having a customized heat increment value. The system can include an animal profile, an animal nutrient requirement profile, an evaluation criteria, and/or ingredient nutrient content profiles. The information contained in the profiles and criteria can be used to calculate a formulation having a desirable heat increment value. The heat increment value can be used to maximize satisfaction of an evaluation criteria.
Claims21
A method for determining customized feed for at least one animal, the method comprising:
- receiving animal data representative of the characteristics of the animal;
- receiving feed data representative of feed ingredients;
- generating nutritional profile data representative of a desirable heat increment value for the animal based upon the animal data;
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- generating formulation including data representative of a combination of feed ingredients, formulation data being generated based upon the nutritional profile data and the feed data;
- wherein the nutritional profile data is representative of at least two nutrient components and further including storing variation data representative of a range for at least one of the nutrient components of the nutritional profile and generating a set of formulation data based upon the variation data.
A method for determining customized feed for at least one animal, the method comprising:
- receiving animal data representative of the characteristics of the animal;
- receiving feed data representative of feed ingredients;
- receiving evaluation data representative of at least one evaluation criteria;
- generating nutritional profile data representative of a desirable heat increment value for the animal based upon the animal data;
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- generating formulation including data representative of a combination of feed ingredients, formulation data being generated based upon the nutritional profile data, the feed data, and the evaluation data;
- wherein the nutritional profile data is representative of at least two nutrient components and further including storing variation data representative of a range for at least one of the nutrient components of the nutritional profile and generating a set of formulation data based upon the variation data.
A method for optimizing the growth rate of an animal, the method comprising:
- receiving animal data representative of the characteristics of the animal;
- receiving feed data representative of feed ingredients;
- receiving evaluation data representative of at least two evaluation criteria;
- generating nutritional profile data including a data representative of a desirable heat increment value for the animal based upon the animal data;
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- generating formulation data representative of a combination of feed ingredients, formulation data being generated based upon the nutritional profile data, the feed data and the evaluation data;
- wherein the nutritional profile data is representative of at least two nutrient components and further including storing variation data representative of a range for at least one of the nutrient components of the nutritional profile and generating a set of formulation data based upon the variation data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.