Foerster TAK5-CH1-25, Instruction Manual

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116 Feeding
2. Select a group. The related default feeding plan is displayed.
3. In P 1 enter the duration (number of days) of the first feeding
period.
4. Press to move to column from and enter the start value
of the feed quantity for P 1 (period 1).
5. Press ito move to column to and enter the end value of
the feed quantity for P 1 .
6. For P 2 to P 5 you must just enter the duration of the feeding
period and the final value of the feed quantity. As displayed on
the screens, the final value of a feeding period always corre-
sponds to the initial value of the next period.
7. The lower menu lines show the total duration of the feeding
plan and the total feed quantity accumulated till the end of the
corresponding plan.
<group A>
days from to L
P 1: [ 3 6.0 6.0]
P 2: 14 6.0 8.0
P 3: 18 8.0 8.0
P 4: 42 8.0 2.5
P 5: 0 0.0 0.0
duration: 77 days
quantity: 478 L
Note: You can increase or decrease the feed quantity by
0.1 liter-steps. The feed is then alloted to one or more
portions of different size depending on feed entitlement.
Example: Feed entitlement 1.6 liters, no further animal
is drinking: The feed quantity is divided into four partial
portions. The first portion is 0.4 liters, the second
0.5 liters and the last two 0.35 liters each.
Note: Only the feed quantity that has been actually con-
sumed will be booked.
Note: As a standard four feeding periods are shown.
Max. 5 periods can be activated. Whenever you have
activated the last period for now, the next period will be
displayed.
<group A>
...
P 5: 0 0.0 0.0
duration: 77 days
quantity: 478 L