By the main screen of NDS Professional you can select the species of animal for which you want to formulate, so that will be invoked the related biological model.
In doing so, you will be able to formulate for the selected species while all the main features of the platform will remain unchanged. All inputs and outputs related to recipes and animals type will be relative to the species you are working with.
The saving of the recipes will take place in the usual way (both in the internal structure and in external files) and the recipes will be stored in specific lists for different species.
Implications
Evolution of biological dynamic models is a continuous process that proceeds in parallel with our biological knowledge improvement. Rationing software must develop on the same way in order to be able to adopt more and more developed models and to meet the needs of more and more demanding and prepared nutritionists and professionals.
SR-NCPS model, available in the NDS Professional platform, was primarily developed in order to offer a tool able to formulate more precise rations for Small Ruminant (Sheep and Goats).
The interface, which was specifically conceived for user assistance, is able to facilitate its use, and allow a rapid data entry process and software stability. It can be used every day by researchers, technicians and field nutritionists with improvement in prediction accuracy and increase of use efficiency, compared with static systems available today.