Poultry Nutritionist's Tool Kit

A Collection of Tools for Students and Practitioners

Poultry nutrition is an applied science.  To apply basic nutrition knowledge, certain tools may be very helpful.  Nutritionists need tools to help determine requirements, prepare premixes, formulate feed, determine profit maximizing nutrient levels, etc. 

This web site was prepared to be a central place for students and nutrition practitioners to obtain (and share) software that they have developed to apply nutrition principles to formulating and feeding chickens, turkeys and other species of animals. 

These workbooks were written with Microsoft Excel, some need the “Solver” Add-In to work properly.

Please use these workbooks at your own risk.  They must be adapted properly to each individual situation to give valuable recommendations.  If you would like to post a workbook or program, please contact us.

For a workbook to evaluate potential experimental designs for nutritional requirement studies, choose:

• Nutritional Requirement Determination Optimization

For a workbook to evaluate potential experimental designs for ingredient safety studies, choose:

• MIOW 1.0 User Guide
• MIOW (Maximum Ingredient Optimization Workbook)

For a workbook to help in fitting responses to nutrients, choose:

• Nutritional Requirements Modeling
• Nutritional Requirements Modeling  (PowerPoint Tutorial)

For a workbook to formulate feed for poultry and swine, choose:

• Windows-Based User-Friendly Feed Formulation (WUFFDA)

For a workbook to formulate premixes, choose:

• Vitamin Premix Formulator

For a workbook to determine how much feed to mix, choose:

• Dr. Larry’s Feed Need Program

For a workbook to adjust growth and feed intake data to a specified bird weight, choose:

• FCR Adjust (Broilers)
• FCR Adjust (Turkeys)

For a workbook to determine the most economic levels of protein to feed to broilers, choose:

• Protein and Profits

For a program to determine how much experimental replication (birds per pen and pens per treatment) is necessary to detect specified differences, choose:

• POWER for Poultry Experiments
• POWER for Poultry Experiments (PowerPoint Tutorial)

For workbooks to help estimate experimental Power:

• Experimental Power Graphing Program
• EPGP PowerPoint Tutorial
• Quantile Plotting Distribution Optimization Library
• QPDOL PowerPoint Tutorial
• Inverse Transformation Scale Experimental Power Graphing
• ITSEPG PowerPoint Tutorial
• Experimental Simulating Program
• ESP PowerPoint Tutorial

To learn about deficiency diseases caused by calcium, phosphorous and vitamin D, choose:

• Diagnosing Broiler Leg Problems

For help in learning to judge the interior quality of eggs, choose:

• Review Interior Egg Quality

To see pictures of the gross anatomy of chickens, choose:

• Introductory Poultry Science Anatomy Laboratory Review

For a workbook to calculate standard errors and fiducial limits for slope ratio assays, choose:

• Slope Ratio Assay Calculations
• Slope Ratio Assay Introduction and Example

For a good description of what the different sections of a scientific journal article should contain:

• Scientific Journal Article Section Outline

For a workbook to determine if separating ingredients on the basis of nutrient composition would be helpful:

• Explanation
• Truncated Normal Distribution
• Crude Protein Variation Estimator Workbooks
  • One-bin method
  • Two-bin method
• Feed Formulation with 1 bin per ingredient
• Feed Formulation with 2 bins per ingredient
• Stochastic Programming Workbook
  • One-bin Model
  • Two-Bin Model

For a workbook to evaluate the value of supplemental enzymes for broiler chicken diets:

• Evaluating Enzyme Value