Balancing Rations You are consulting with a farmer who is concerned because his

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Balancing Rations

You are consulting with a farmer who is concerned because his pigs are not gaining as rapidly as they should be. He is feeding them a diet that includes 25% timothy hay (10% crude protein), 25% corn (10% crude protein), 10% oats (11.6% crude protein), 5% vitamin and mineral supplement (0% crude protein), 5% molasses (6% crude protein), 5% soybean meal (44% crude protein, and 25% rice hulls (13% crude protein). If he is using a 100 kg diet, how many kg of protein comes from timothy hay?

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If he is using 100 kg diet

The crude protien =10+10+11.6+0+6+44+13= 94.6%

94.6% crude protien = 100 kg diet

1% crude protien =100/94.6=1.05708

Then 10% of crude protein comes from timothy hay is =10*1.05708=10.5708245kg

10.5708245 kg of protein comes from timothy hay.

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