Required: fodjan Pro | Required user rights to set up the interface: Owner or Admin
The feed mixer interface in fodjan helps you to evaluate the results of actual feeding and thus draw conclusions for your planning data in the feed groups and rations. In the following you will learn:
- which interfaces are currently available
- how to set them up and use them successfully
- how to save documentation effort
- and see evaluations e.g. on feed intake and mixing accuracy directly in fodjan
The following interfaces are currently available:
- Siloking
- BvL Dairy Feeder
- PTM (e.g. installed in Strautmann, Trioliet and other brands)
- MmmooOgle Feed Now (on request via mail to support@fodjan.de)
- Others (on request via mail to support@fodjan.de)
- In the left menu, go to Administration > Interfaces.
- On the right-hand side you will see the category feed mixing technology. There, click on the fodder mixing technique for which you want to activate an interface.
- You will be shown detailed instructions on how to set up the feed mixer interface. Follow these instructions and then select the “Activate” button.
Once the interface has been successfully set up, follow the instructions that you will already find under Administration > Interfaces to your feed mixer manufacturer. However, the basic procedure remains the same for almost all manufacturers:
- The current rations are exported to the feed mixer or scale at the beginning of a ration change (more on exporting rations in the following section).
- Then feed as usual with the support of the mixing technology or weighing equipment.
- Afterwards, you import the data manually or automatically back into fodjan on a regular basis (we recommend weekly) – depending on the interface (see Administration > Interfaces).
- You can then transfer the data to the documentation and view evaluations of it, e.g. in the mixing accuracy and feeding controlling.
In order to transfer your current rations (especially after ration adjustments) to your feed mixing technology, you must export them from fodjan. You can export individual or all rations.
Export a single ration
- Go to Rations > Overview in the left menu.
- Go to the group containing the ration you want to export to the feed mixing technique.
- Select the ration you want to export to the feed mixing technique.
- Go to the feed mixing technique icon in the header of the ration.
- A small window opens. Go to the button “Export” under the corresponding fodder mixing technique.
Note: Before exporting, pay attention to the set mixing order.
You have now downloaded the ration and can transfer it to your feed mixing technology. You can also find the instructions for each interface again under Administration > Interfaces under the corresponding interface.
Export of all current rations
Note: This way all rations with a current feeding date are exported (all rations that are currently in feeding).
- Go to Rations > Overview in the left menu.
- Click on the button “Export rations” at the top.
- Go to the “Export” button under the corresponding forage mixing technique.
You have now downloaded the ration and can transfer it to your feed mixing technology. You can also find the instructions for each interface again under Administration > Interfaces under the corresponding interface.
After feeding, you can then import the data from the feed mixing technology back into fodjan. For the non-automatic interfaces, we recommend doing this weekly.
This means that not only can the planned feeding be viewed in fodjan, but extended documentation and evaluation can also be carried out at the following points:
A common cause of missing feed quantities in individual or all feed groups is the manipulation of group or feed data before or during the feeding process. What does that mean exactly?
This is how the error occurs:
In fodjan, each feed group has a stored ID. This is included in the export file when the rations are exported. If, for example, the number of animals in the group is changed during the feeding process at the mixing technology terminal, the feed mixing technology often overwrites this ID with its own. In the file for importing, fodjan then does not find the original group IDs again and cannot allocate the feed quantities accordingly. Therefore, if possible, avoid such entries on the feed mixing technology terminal if these problems occur.
The same can also happen if, for example, feed is renamed at the terminal and feed IDs are overwritten and can therefore no longer be assigned by fodjan.
How can you check whether this is the cause?
Check whether all feed quantities are correctly re-imported into fodjan if you do not make any changes to the feed mixing terminal. Or only make changes to one group – then only the feed quantity of this group should be missing.
How can you rectify the error?
You can document the feed quantities using the fodjan app and the feed now function (more information here) and then avoid making changes to the terminal during subsequent feedings. If this is necessary, please contact the feed mixing technology manufacturer, who must ensure that their terminals do not overstore the ID.
Manual correction of the group ID in the import file is not recommended. In urgent cases, however, you can ask fodjan support for assistance (e.g. if the import file contains feeding data for more than 1 week).
See also
Using the milk report interface
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Set up laboratory interface
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Milking robot interface and report
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Interfaces in fodjan – Overview
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Milk quality interface
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