Embrapa’s software helps you formulate rations for poultry and swine – Portal Brazil

Through laboratory analysis of raw energy, nitrogen and dry matter, it can calculate the utilization of energy diets and food testing

published : 07/12/2015 17h12 last modified : 07/12/2015 17h12

The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) of Santa Catarina (SC) released on Friday (4) Energcalc software, which calculates the metabolizable energy in experiments with pigs and poultry. Information metabolizable energy from food aid in feed formulation for poultry and pork. The program can be downloaded for free over the Internet.

“The metabolizable energy from food is important information for the formulation of feed for poultry and pigs. These values ​​are determined in metabolic trials in which the use of a reference diet and test diet is measured and the excretion of nutrients and energy not used by animals fed these diets, “said says researcher Fernando Tavernari, an author of the Energcalc side Geordano Dalmédico analyst to, the Information Technology Center.

Through laboratory analysis of raw energy, nitrogen and dry matter, you can calculate the utilization of energy diets and food testing, “says Dalmédico. The standardizes software calculations, requiring only the insertion of data obtained in the experiment and evaluated in the laboratory, which ensures the results and makes more accurate comparison

. Source: Portal Brazil, with information Embrapa