the genetic parameters and (co) variance components of body weight at birth (bw), weaning (ww) and six months of age (bw6) and average daily gain (adg) pre and post-weaning of afshari sheep were estimated using restricted maximum likelihood (reml) methodology and animal model implemented in dfreml software. the likelihood ratio test (lrt) was used to compare the models. year of birth, age of mo...

Two experiments were carried out to study the effects of dietary energy level on nutrient digestion, nitrogen (N) utilization, growth performance, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) in plasma, liver and longissimus dorsi muscle in growing-finishing pigs. In experiment 1 (Exp 1), 15 castrated male pigs (Duroc×Landrace ×Large White) (B...

A 2-yr study was conducted during the 2004 to 2005 (YR1) and 2005 to 2006 (YR2) winter wheat grazing seasons to determine the effects of supplementation strategies and delivery methods on supplement intake and growth performance of grazing steers (YR1, n = 253, initial BW 255 +/- 25 kg; YR2, n = 116, initial BW 287 +/- 14 kg). The 5 treatments were as follows: 1) negative control (NC), no suppl...

in order to study on the effect of incomplete sire's pedigree on the prediction of breeding value and estimation of genetic trend, two quantitative traits such as weaning weight and average daily gain with heritabilities 0.15 and 0.30 were simulated. phenotypic, genetic and environmental correlations were assumed 0.5. resulted data files with different proportion of missed sire pedigree (0...

Experiments (Exp.) were conducted with Cornish Rock males (4 to 14 or 15 d of age) to determine the Lys requirement (Exp. 1) and the optimum ratio of TSAA:Lys for chicks fed adequate or inadequate Lys (Exp. 2). In Exp. 1, 180 chicks were allotted on the basis of BW to six treatments with six replications of five chicks each in a completely randomized design (CRD). Average initial and final BW w...

The objectives of this study were to determine the efficacy of various doses of rbST on ADG and feed efficiency (FE) and to describe carcass composition changes in finishing beef steers. In Exp. 1, 96 crossbred beef steers (393 kg) received daily i.m. injections of buffer or 33, 100, or 300 micrograms/kg of BW of rbST (0ST, 33ST, 100ST, 300ST). In Exp. 2, 200 crossbred beef steers (417 kg) rece...

BACKGROUND Residual feed intake (RFI), a measure of feed efficiency, is the difference between observed feed intake and the expected feed requirement predicted from growth and maintenance. Pigs with low RFI have reduced feed costs without compromising their growth. Identification of genes or genetic markers associated with RFI will be useful for marker-assisted selection at an early age of anim...

Bacillus-based feed additive was evaluated for its efficacy on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fecal gas emission, and the consumption of time and amount of water for cleaning the pen of growing finishing pigs. A total of 120 growing pigs (23.59±1.41 kg) were used in a 16-wk feeding trial. Pigs were randomly distributed into 1 of 2 treatments on the basis of body weight and sex. The...

A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the effect of supplementing diet broiler chickens with propolis on growth, bacterial population intestine, antiviral serum concentration, intestinal morphology, and digestive enzyme activities in chickens. Forty peer-reviewed articles that had been published between 2003 2019 were identified using PRISMA protocol included study. Data analysed mixed model...

An experiment was conducted, from 22 to 42-d-post-hatch, to evaluate the effect of different combinations of carbohydrases (CHS), citric acid (CA) and high-dose phytase in wheat-canola meal-based diets with very low content of non-phytate phosphorus (NPP) on growth performance, plasma calcium (Ca) and P and tibia ash (TA) content of broiler chickens. One hundred and ninety two 21-d-old male chi...