Sodium Bentonite in Diets for Growing Ducks

Supplemental Chromium Yeast and / orMannan Oligosaccharides in Growing Quail Diets

To evaluatethe effects of supplementing diets of growing Japanese quails (n=450; 7 days old) with chromium (Cr) yeast and / or mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) on productive performance, carcass traits and the immune system are reported. Diets were a basal diet (control) or the basal diet supplemented with 600 mg Cr-yeast/kg (Cr 1), 1200 mg Cr-yeast/kg (Cr 2), 1.0 g MOS/kg, Cr 1 + MOS or Cr 2 + MO...

Sodium bentonite and monensin under chronic aflatoxicosis in broiler chickens.

Clay feed additives have been increasingly incorporated into animal diets to prevent aflatoxicosis. Due to the nonselective nature of the binding interaction, many important components of the diets could also be made unavailable because of these feed additives. The anticoccidial monensin (MON) could also be sequestered by these clays. The use of sodium bentonite (Na-B) from a mine in the provin...

Wheat Straw in Growing Cattle Diets

Corn DDGS in growing-finishing diets for swine

1 2 Growth performance and carcass characteristics of growing swine fed corn distiller’s dried 3 grains with solubles originating from a modern mid-western ethanol plant 4 5 M. H. Whitney, G. C. Shurson, L. J. Johnston, D. M. Wulf, and B. C. Shanks. 6 7 ∗ Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108, † Department of 8 Animal Science, University of Minnesota, Morris 5626...

Grass silage in diets for organic growing-finishing pigs

In this study, organically raised pigs received an increasing proportion of grass silage up to 10 and 20% dry matter in the daily ration in the grower and finisher period, respectively, to determine the effects of grass silage on feed intake and growth performance. The pigs receiving a mixture of grass silage and compound feed ingested 0.3 kg DM/d (13% of their daily ration) as grass silage and...