A newly released software package will help swine and poultry producers optimize the use of soluble nutritional and antibiotic supplements.
Vétoquinol Precision, developed by Quebec based Vétoquinol was demonstrated yesterday as part of the 2010 Banff Pork Seminar.
Vétoquinol technical services manager Dr. Claude Thibault says the new software provides users precise formulas for the preparation of stock solutions, resulting in optimal levels of medication for the treatment of animals.
We started to work on Vétoquinol Precision about a year and a half ago because over time we came to realize that carrying different soluble powders that were registered sometimes many years ago there were some differences in recipes that producers could actually read on each individual label and it was not always obvious for them to determine how much powder, how much stock solution and how should they prepare the actual stock solution, how much powder dissolved in X litres of water to prepare the stock solution.
Sometimes these days we do have medicators that are the metric system instead of the U.S. one ounce per gallon so if they wanted to work with metric medicators they would not find the appropriate recipe on the label so the Vétoquinol Precision software takes into account what ever is the type of medicator they work with.
If they have a different setup they can use it and every time they will end up with a very precise recipe for the preparation of the stock solution.
Dr. Thibault says the software helps eliminate over or under medication and identifies the correct withdrawal periods.
Additional information can be obtained at solublepowders.com.
Source: Farmscape.Ca
