Abstract
A computerized representation of feeding regimes in dairy herds is based on intermittent information concerning individual calving supplementation, and data on the time distribution of various elements (diets, including nutritive values of supplied feedstuffs, vitamins and mineral elements) to groups of cows according to their physiological status. A conceptual data model and derived relational database tables describe these basic data. The individual or group data are employed to generate a time distribution of supplies to individual animals, through a computer application, written in procedural language and linked to the database. The application is presented in algorithmic fashion. It runs for any set of animals and associated periods chosen by the user. It uses an input database table and generates output database tables. The application allows investigations of relationships between production or disease in the dairy cow and nutritional practices. Generalization of various features of the system to other fields of work is underlined.
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