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As an extension officer, a farmer wanted to buy a new feed that "fights the rising cost of feed." with the following feed ingredient composition on dry matter basis: Feed ingredient composition on dry matter basis: ME (MJ/kg) ) CP (%) Maize 80 10 Hominy chop 60 30 Wheat straw 50 15 In order to convince the farmer to purchase the feed ingredients, you indicated to him that it will meet the requirement of his animal for a final mix of 15 % CP and 72 MJ/ME. (a) Using an appropriate calculation, showing all the steps evaluate the feed ingredients in order to get a final mix containing the 3 ingredients responding to the farmers animal requirement. (30) (b) Should the farmer purchase or not purchase the feed ingredients? Explain your choice. (5) Assume we have a diet with the following composition per 1.5kg or 1500g (15) (C) Feedstuff Quantity in Kg Maize 1000 Soybean meal 405 Lime 11 Dicalcium phosphate 51 Salt 10 Tm premix 2 Vit premix 20 Using the above, formulate a base mixture or a premix to be fed with maize and Soybean meal. TASK 2 [50] Livestock owners might not be aware of what ration formulation entails. Discuss fully the concepts of ration formulation with livestock owners and using the Pearson Square ration formulation technique, formulate a 12% CP diet using maize (8.8%CP) and a protein supplement (35 % CP), with 3% rye (11.9 CP) and 7.5% milo (11.0% CP).