A rapid increase in corn use in ethanol plants, and subsequent creation of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) by-products, has led to an increase in the use of DDGS in the diets of livestock. DDGS has been used all over the world as a dietary ingredient and this has necessitated more research to be conducted on its quality, nutritive values, and recommendations for feeding to poultry....

The soils in Ebonyi State agro-ecological zones of southeastern Nigeria are plagued with characteristics that impede optimal crop production. Failures in agricultural development in this part of southeastern Nigeria may have been caused by the inability of the farmers to develop the abundant inland valleys for such crops like rice using appropriate water management systems. In order to arrest t...

The low nutritional value of barley for poultry is because of the absence of an intestinal enzyme for efficient depolymerization of (1, 3-1,4)-beta-glucan, the major polysaccharide of the endosperm cell walls. This leads to high viscosity in the intestine, limited nutrient uptake, decreased growth rate, and unhygienic sticky droppings adhering to chickens and floors of the production cages. Con...