The nutritive value of wheaten products

Bound Nicotinic Acid in Dietary Wheaten Products.

In cereals, nicotinic acid occurs mainly in a bound form, niacytin, which is nutritionally unavailable to certain bacteria and mammals (Kodicek & Wilson, 1960). Most published findings relating to nutritional availability have been on rats and pigs, and the results have been in agreement with microbiological assays (Braude, Kon, Mitchell & Kodicek, 1955 ; Kodicek, Braude, Kon & Mitchell, 1956, ...

Inoculant effects on alfalfa silage: fermentation products and nutritive value.

The effect of 14 microbial inoculants on the fermentation and nutritive value of alfalfa silages was studied under laboratory conditions. The first cut (477 g of dry matter/kg) and second cut (393 g of dry matter/kg) of a second-year alfalfa stand were ensiled in 2 trials. In both trials alfalfa was harvested with standard field equipment. All inoculants were applied at 1.0 x 10(6) cfu/g of cro...

Nutritive Value of Sawdust

The present study was undertaken to observe the chemical composition of different types of sawdust available in the urban and peri-urban areas of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Twenty different types of sawdust from different plants were collected from study areas. Chemical analyses of the samples were carried out in triplicate for moisture, dry matter (DM), metabolizable energy (ME), crude protein (C...

Nutritive Value of Rice

Improving the Nutritive Value of Poultry Feedstuffs: the Rapeseed Products Example

Commercial brown-egg layers have the genetic potential to produce 26.5 kg egg mass per hen housed (405 eggs with 65.5 g average weight) in a prolonged laying period of 16 months, with a feed conversion ratio of 2.1 kg feed per kg egg mass (Lohmann Tierzucht, 2011). Rapid growing broilers reach market weight of 2.1 kg live weight in 5 weeks, with a feed conversion of 1.6 kg feed per kg live weig...