[BLANK_AUDIO]. All right, in this video, we're going to cover the feeding plan or this weeks assignment for the course. And, it's going to be pretty straight forward. Again just a reminder. You're basing this feeding plan off of your animals that you've been, you know, choosing for this horse project throughout the course. So this is kind of a review. You know, that you want to base what you're going to feed on those animals. And then also your training plan. So, not only are you going to be concerned with the type, you know, breed of animal, the size of the animal, and the activity of the animal. We're all going to have you know, implications on what you're going to feed them. So, what we're going to do for this feeding plan, and I thought this would probably be the best way to, to kind of take you through this website. And kind of step by step and determining what your requirements are of your animal, because we know that's what you're going to base your feeding plan on. So, you can go to this indicated website, and this is from the, the National Research Council here in the United States, that sets the standards or requirements of what horses need. Now, if you have a donkey, or mule or hybrid, you can go ahead and still use this website. You know, their nu, nutrient requirements are going to be relatively the same. So you go ahead and click on that link, and then what I'm going to ask you to do is, go ahead and click on the animal specification. So I have it there in red, so you go ahead and click on that tab. And then it's going to ask you to, to, to input some values. Now, the first thing you're going to have to do. Is estimate the body weight of your animal. Now, since you, most of you are probably using a hypothetical animal, just look at that breed standard. That type of either horse or, or mule or, or donkey, and come up with an estimated weight. Now, this NRC website is based on the metric system. So if you do use pounds, you're going to have to convert pounds to kilograms. Again, very easy. I provide you a link in the the assignment sheet or just you know, you can go on the web and do a search for metric conversion. It's you know, there's a million online calculators. It's very, very simple to do. So, once you have that in kilograms, you're going to go, want to go ahead and input there an indication on the estimated weight. Now, because I've been preaching three perc, up to 3% body weight, we're going to want to change that intake level to 3%. It's, it's automatically set at 2%. We want to change that to 3%. So go ahead and do that. And then you're going to have to decide kind of the activity or the stage of life the animal's in. So you can see there's, there's some choices, you have the maintenance, the stallion, you know, or if it's, if it's growing animal, pregnant lactating, working or training. So you can click on those, and then some of them as you can see here. With the adult at maintenance, so that one will, will tell you it's average or hard or easy keeper. Or if you go to the pregnancy, one, it'll ask you the stage of pregnancy, or if you go to the working, training, it's going to break it down by low, moderate, high, intense. Stuff like that. So you'll click on that, and then indicate the intended level, because that's going to have an effect as we know. On their nutrient requirements. All right, so looking at this output table, the first thing we're going to look at, is the digestible energy. You know, the DE in mega cals per day. So if you see there in this table, it's 16.65 mega calories per day, that this animal is going to need in their diet. So we'll write that down. Then we're going to find out what the crude protein, the CP. So crude protein in grams per day, it's going to be indicated there, and then the other one we'll ask is the lysine just. Just to reinforce that lysine is an important consideration in equine diets. So, you go ahead and write that down in grams per day. And then the other thing you're going to want to pull off this table, is the total, you know, dens, under the densities tab, is the total intake in kilograms, so in this example that's ten kilograms of total intake per day. Is what, you know, we're estimating that this animal would need. Now after you write those down, we're going to ask you to, to briefly, in three sentences or less, you know, describe your, your approach to feeding this animal. So you can list, you know, the type of feeds you may use. You know, especially what's in your region of the world. You know, the proportions of forage to concentrate. So you can go back to those lectures and see what we recommend for, for different stages of life and also different activities, and your feeding frequency. So what's some of your management? You know, I'm going to feed him you know, twice a day, three times a day, four times a day in these amounts. So, you know, go ahead and answer those in, in three sentences or less. Try to keep it brief. And that's it for the feeding plan. So, you know, the benefit is going to be, you know, navigating that website and seeing what your animals' requirements are. Now, there is the, the grading rubric for this week's assignment. So, we're going to ask you, you know, at the end of this week, to go ahead next week and finish up your grading the feeding plan of, of up to three of you peers. And again, remember, English may not be their primary language, so take that into consideration. You're really looking for content, not presentation. So, go ahead and look at that, that grading rubric and give your feedback to some of your peers on their feeding plans. Al right. So you're feeding plan is going to be due by the end of this week. And then also, don't forget that you have to peer eval three of your peer, three of your colleagues, by the end of this week, of their training plans which you all turned in. Last week, and then peer evals of the feeding plan will be due at the end of next week. So, just pay attention to the calendar on the due dates, and try to get that all in. [BLANK_AUDIO]
