System and method of formulating an animal feed composition

Abstract

A system for formulating a feed composition for an animal, comprising - a feed ingredient data storage having stored therein for plural feed ingredients, the feed ingredients comprising at least one nutrient, a content of a first fraction of the at least one nutrient exhibiting a first digestion rate, a content of a second fraction of the at least one nutrient exhibiting a second digestion rate, and a content of a third fraction of the at least one nutrient exhibiting a third digestion rate, the first, second and third digestion rates being different from each other, - a nutrient regime data storage that has stored therein a nutrient regime for the animal in terms of a respective feeding amount of at least one of the first fraction of the at least one nutrient having the first digestion rate, the second fraction of the at least one nutrient having the second digestion rate, and the third fraction of the at least one nutrient having the third digestion rate. - a feed composition processor communicatively connected to the feed ingredient data storage and to the nutrient regime data storage and configured to derive, from the nutrient regime for the animal and the contents of the first, second and third fractions of the at least one nutrient as stored in the feed ingredient data storage for the feed ingredients, a feed composition in terms of feed ingredients to be fed to the animal, the feed composition adhering to the nutrient regime, and to output instructions for feeding the animal based on the feed composition.