Digestion Experiments with Poultry

Starch digestion capacity of poultry.

Starch is quantitatively the most important nutrient in poultry diets and will to a large extent be present as intact starch granules due to very limited extent of gelatinization during pelleting. Although native starch is difficult to digest due to a semi-crystalline structure, even fast-growing broiler chickens appears to be able to digest this starch more or less completely during passage th...

PSA-Physiology: Poultry Digestion and Metabolism

sue samples using Proteinase K digestion method. A 5 ug of the viral RNA was used for the synthesis of cDNA using RevertAid TM First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (MBI, Fermentas). The VP2 hypervariable region of the IBDV was amplified using specific primers. A single band of PCR product of the expected size was visualized on 1.5% agarose gel after ethidium bromide staining. Results indicated that ...

Enhancing anaerobic digestion of poultry blood using activated carbon

The potential of using anaerobic digestion for the treatment of poultry blood has been evaluated in batch assays at the laboratory scale and in a mesophilic semi-continuous reactor. The biodegradability test performed on residual poultry blood was carried out in spite of high inhibitory levels of acid intermediaries. The use of activated carbon as a way to prevent inhibitory conditions demonstr...

Poultry Manure : The New Frontier for Anaerobic Digestion

methane production from anaerobic co-digestion of poultry manure

this study investigated the effect of loading and temperature on anaerobic co-digestion of poultry manure with straw in mesophilic conditions. the study was made at lab-scale using 70l reactor with a hrt of 15 days. during the first phase, different loads of 1.0, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 kg vs/m3.d were studied in order to produce biogas. at load of 3.0 kg vs/ m3.d, vs removal and gas product...