To import the Tropical Feed Library, start the Rumen8 application which will open with the default Feed Library (usually the provided Australian Feed Library).
- Click on the ‘Edit’ menu at the left top corner of the Rumen8 window and then click on ‘Edit Feeds’ in the menu that appears, or just use the keyboard shortcut Control-F. The Feed Editor window will open.
- Click on the third tab called ‘Manage libraries and Ingredient visibility’.
- On the right side of the tab click the ‘New’ button in the ‘Library’ column. This will ask you for a name for the new library. Type in SNV Tropical feeds and click ‘Okay’. You now have an empty feed library ready to import feeds into.
- Now click the ‘Import’ button in the ‘Library’ column. Note, NOT the other import button at the bottom of the window under the ‘Share’ section.
- In the ‘Import Feed Library’ window that appears, change to the ‘Downloads’ folder you previously downloaded the ‘SNVFeedLibrary4.db3’ file to. The file ’SNVFeedLibrary.db3’ will be visible. Click on it and then click on the ‘Open’ button.
- You will then be prompted to give the imported library a name, or just accept the default ‘SNV Tropical Feed Library’ in the entry box. Click ‘Okay’ to complete the import of the feed library.
Once the library has been imported, the top right section of the tab will show 356 feeds and mixes are available.
You now have two feed libraries, the default one supplied with Rumen8 and the Tropical library you have just created. You can switch between them using the drop down menu below where the number of feeds are shown. Use the rightmost tab of the Feed Editor to copy feeds between the libraries if you wish.
All the feeds and mixes in the library are locked, so cannot be edited by Rumen8 users other than adding costs and losses. You will need to create customised feeds based on analysis of the feeds on your farm, so to do this first create a copy of the most similar library feed, give it a unique name, and then adjust the parameters to suit.