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Managing Livestock in Dry Times

Ration Formulation using the


‘Pearson Square’
The ‘Pearson Square’ is a tool that can be used to calculate the portion of two feeds needed to meet protein or
energy requirements of an animal. For this tool to work, one of the feeds used must be higher in ME or CP than the

The ‘Pearson Square’


desired level and the other feed must be below the desired level.

Exercise:
Calculate the portion of a grain needed to make a 15% CP mix. The grain we have available is lupins at 30% protein
and barley at 12% protein.

Step 1
Draw a square and insert the desired crude protein Step 4
(15%) in the middle of the square. Calculate the percentage of each grain.
Add the two portion figures to give the total and
calculate each feed as a percentage.
30 3 3+15=18
Lupins
(Difference of middle value and barley value) 3 ÷ 18
(total of the two differences) 0.167 x 100

15 = (% of lupins) 16.7 %

Barley
(Difference of middle value and lupin value) 15 ÷ 18
(total of the two differences) 0.833 x100
12 15 = (% of barley) 83.3
+

Step 2
Place the two grains and their respective crude protein
contents on the left hand corners of the square.

Step 3
Calculate the difference between the middle value and
the value on the bottom and top left hand corners of
the square and place the result diagonally opposite.
These values represent the portion of each grain
required to produce a grain mix with a CP level of
15%.
30-15=15 (Value in the bottom right corner of the
square)
12-15=3 (Value in the top right corner of the square)

Note – disregard the negative or positive value of the


numbers.
Content and images courtesy of Primary Industries and Regions SA. This flyer is produced as part of the Government of South Australia’s Upper South East Drought Package.

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