WUFFDA Basics

WUFFDA requires the MicroSoft Excel

spreadsheet program with the Solver Option
installed.
Basic knowledge of spreadsheet usage is all
that is required to use the program.
WUFFDA can solve a problem with 25
ingredients and 34 nutrients.
 First Step in the Formulation
Process
Prepare an ingredient composition matrix.
WUFFDA contains nutrient composition
data for a large number of ingredients.
You may enter data directly into the
Active Ingredient Matrix
Or you may copy data from the Storage
matrix to the Active matrix.
 Ingredients
The Active Ingredient Composition Matrix
Box is at the top of the Ingredients
spreadsheet.
Ingredient composition information is stored
at the bottom of the Ingredients spreadsheet.
The composition of any number of ingredients
may be stored there.
 Active Ingredients
The ingredients in the Active Ingredient
Composition Matrix Box will be used in the
current formulation.
The next window shows a typical ingredient
composition matrix for a broiler diet.
Notice Alfalfa
 Preparing the Active Ingredient
Matrix

Copy ingredient composition data from the

storage area at the bottom of the spreadsheet
to the active matrix area at the top
Always make any changes that you want to
be permanent at the bottom of the sheet and
copy them to the top.
 Preparing the Active Ingredient
Matrix

Copying data from the Ingredient

Composition Storage Matrix to the Active
Matrix:
Click on the 38 to
highlight the Canola line,
then press the right mouse
button to pull down the
edit menu, and click
Copy.
Press the <Page Up> key or scroll
up to see the Active Ingredient
Composition Matrix
Click on the 15 to
highlight the Alfalfa line,
then press the right mouse
button to pull down the
edit menu, and click
Paste.
Alfalfa Data
Replaced by
Canola Data
 Nutrient Requirements
Next, the nutritional requirements must be
set:
Lists of nutritional requirements are
contained on the Nutrients spreadsheet.
You can enter data directly into the
Current Specification Area.
Or you may Cut and Paste from stored
requirement lists.
Highlight the data
to be copied by
holding down the
left mouse button
while dragging
the mouse across
the block.
Press the right
mouse button and
click on Copy.
Place the cursor on
cell C4 at the upper
left corner of the
Current
Specification Box
and choose Paste
from the pull-down
edit menu.
And the Broiler
Grower Feed
becomes the
Current
Specification.
By Copying and Pasting, the
Original Data Remains
Unchanged. A New Nutrient
Specification Can Always Be
Copied and Stored for
Future Use.
 Formulating A Diet
When the ingredients have been chosen and
the nutrient limits have been set, it is time to
formulate the diet.
Go to the Formulate Spreadsheet:
 Formulating a Feed
The Formulate Spreadsheet contains the
same minimum and maximum requirement
data as the Ingredient and Nutrient
Spreadsheets.
Changes to requirement data should only be
made on the Ingredients and Nutrient
Spreadsheets.
 Formulating a Feed
You can enter data directly into the
Amounts column on the left of the
spreadsheet, and the nutrients supplied by
those amounts will be displayed on the right
in the Supplied column.
This is an excellent method of estimating
what is in a feed that is already formulated.
Or You Can Get Excel to
Formulate the Least-Cost
Feed By Choosing
Solver From the Tools
Menu.
Constraints have all been set in the
Solver Dialogue Box, so just click on
the Solve Button.
Hopefully Solver will find a solution
and you can just click on the OK
Button to see what it is.
The Amount of Each Ingredient in the
Formula and the Nutrients the Diet
Supplies Will Be Displayed.
 Output From Formulations
The information from the Formulate
Spreadsheet is Automatically transferred to
the Feed Spec. Spreadsheet for printing on a
black & white printer, on a single sheet of
paper.
Print Preview of a Feed Specification.
 Output From Formulations
Results are also graphed on the Graph
spreadsheet for viewing in another
perspective: as a proportion of the minimum
requirement.
Scroll to See Both Graphs
 Output From Formulations
A mixing sheet can also be printed from the
Mixing Sheet Spreadsheet.
The <Ctrl> and <m> keys must be pressed
together to sort the data from the largest
ingredient to the smallest (the order they
should be added to the mixer).
 Sensitivity Analyses
Solver can give information on how feeds
may change:
Changes in ingredient usage when
ingredient prices change.
Changes in feed prices when nutrient
levels change.
 Sensitivity Analyses

Choose Sensitivity from the list of

possible Reports in the Solver Results
Dialogue Box.
 Sensitivity Analyses
This creates the Sensitivity Report
Spreadsheet, containing all the necessary
information.
Each time the feed is formulated an
additional Sensitivity Report is created if
requested. It may be best to delete them as
soon as they are no longer needed.
This feed should contain 52.09 % Corn unless the
price increases by $0.989, or decreases by $0.129.
Corns current value is $5.25 per 100 pounds.
This formulation would begin to use barley if its
price decreases by $2.0989.
The cost of the feed is expected to change by
$0.4201 if the level of protein specified were to
change by 1 unit up or down.
 Time to Give WUFFDA a Try
If you dont get a feasible solution:
Relax constraints one at a time until you get
a feasible solution. This should help
identify the problem.
Make sure you use the same units
throughout the problem.
Make sure there is Methionine Plus Cystine
activity in the DL-Methionine, etc.
Good Luck