1. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started

2. BroilerOpt Growth Model Program Starts at the Current Flock Tab – Just Needs Diet Info

3. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Click on Open Diets and the diets associated with the location show on the Sceen, but you can open others or import from Brill Least Cost Program or from the clip board (copied from other programs)

4. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Click on Current Calc. and get the cost of the average bird in a flock for your target – here live weight.

5. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Choose another target to get other insights. You can choose a set feed intake, flock age or flock live weight.

6. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started If you have calibrated a mixed flock, you can look at the effect of the diet on the males and females, individually. Set the target to Flock Age to get the same age birds and the male weights are calculated

7. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Calibration is simple and accurate. Enter your diet nutrients, weight of feed and flock average weight, feed conversion and age. Click Calibrate and the system is set to your conditions. You can set temperatures if needed.

8. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started When you name the complex, you can set your values and specify the breed so calibration is breed sensitive.

9. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started The model reports how accurately it could match your feed conversion and you can now save the calibration. Save your diets too.

10. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Now, you can make changes in energy, amino acids and protein, or feed weights fed and see the impact on feed conversion and cost and carcass.

11. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started It stores the live weights of both sexes if a mixed flock and average carcass composition by age for 10 days up to the final weight.

12. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Optimization is Easy, set minimums and maximums you are comfortable with and let it go.

13. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Shows Initial and Optimum and can show carcass composition.

14. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started You can set Least Cost Information. Click on Show Least Cost and then go diet by diet over the values. Here we are setting the restriction on fat to 3 % on diet 1. We will set the restrictions on diets 2 and 3 to 3 % and see the effect on cost.

15. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Now, current calc. shows that with the fat restriction, costs are up from 0.8982. No other change was made.

16. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started We can run the optimizer again and find what changes in feeding strategy we should consider with the limit on fat addition. The third diet changes with a savings of about 0.018 cents per bird or $18,000 per Million birds.

17. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started When optimizing you can choose to optimize to a set feed to gain value, or set a maximum and find the least expensive feeding program to meet or beat that feed to gain. Often, when first starting out, reducing feed conversion by 3 or 4 points is a good way to test the model. Modest savings but an improvement in feed conversion is a low risk way to test the accuracy of BroilerOpt.

18. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started You can compare the impact of the new feeding program on carcass composition or set the optimizer to maximize breast meat, for example. You can do this comparison by clicking between Current Calculation and Optimized Values.

19. BroilerOpt Growth Model Getting Started Easy to use, easy to calibrate. Click of a button transfer of Brill Least Cost Information (matrix, restrictions and prices) after using the setup routine. Transfer by clipboard for other LP systems. Savings on feed cost and peace of mind. Knowing what feed conversion should be, what feed costs will be and what is the best that can be done with the current costs are the highest values that BroilerOpt brings to the Nutritionist.