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Individual Feed Intake and Feeding Behavior Data for Ruminant Nutrition Research

Research starts with a question. For fifty years the Calan Broadbent Feeding System has answered many.
With CalanIQ™ and SystemD researchers now have the opportunity to answer more.

Feed intake

Calan Broadbent Feeding System*

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  • Daily dry matter intake (DMI) per animal

  • Feed offered, orts and intake, as fed and DM

  • Intake resolved to the individual animal

*Designed to FASS Ag Guide, NFACC Code of Practice and Dairyland Initiative feeding space recommendations

Ration and treatment

CalanIQ

 

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  • Ingredients, treatment formulation, batch, mix and fed to which animal

  • Dry matter + As Fed continuity 

  • Auditable treatment compliance for every animal, every day

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  • Latency from feed delivered to feed session

  • Meal frequency, meal duration, feeding time

  • Intermeal interval and feeding rate, and how a treatment changed them

Feeding behavior

CalanIQ + SystemD

New: CalanIQ FeedOps. Digitize your feed operation. More Data. Less Work.   See FeedOps →

Precision Feed Intake System

Global Partnerships

We are honored to work alongside many of the top agricultural and research institutions across the globe. Today, CALAN Systems are trusted and actively used in over 200 facilities—supporting groundbreaking work in animal nutrition, behavior, and performance research.

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