The mean retention time (MRT) of stained hay through the whole digestive tract and its digestibility were measured in Japanese sika deer (Cervus nippon) and were compared with those in sheep when lucerne (Medicago sativa) hay was fed at 10, 20 and 30 g/kg body-weight. The recoveries in faeces of plastic particles with five specific gravities were also measured in deer. MRT for deer was signific...

Insects have been proposed as a high-quality, efficient and sustainable dietary protein source. The present study evaluated the protein quality of a selection of insect species. Insect substrates were housefly pupae, adult house cricket, yellow mealworm larvae, lesser mealworm larvae, Morio worm larvae, black soldier fly larvae and pupae, six spot roach, death's head cockroach and Argentinean c...

Studies were conducted to investigate the possible use of raw Magadi soda (RMS), a sodium sesquicarbonate salt (Na2C03NaHC03. HzO) in the detoxification of the tannins associated with highand low-tannin sorghum grains and to establish the relative in-vitro nutritive value of the treated grains. Treatment of grains with concentrations as low as 4 g litre-1 of RMS for 3 days, reduced the level of...

This experiment was carried out to compare the effects of treated and untreated wheat straw with Pleurotus florida on ewe feed intake, nutrient digestibility, and ewe body condition score (BCS) after parturition. Thirty Kermani ewes with an average weight of 48 ± 3.05 kg and about four years old were used in this experiment. Synchronization of estrus in sheep has been achieved with the use of i...

The effect of inclusion of garlic essential oil (EO) at 33, 66 and 100 µg mL(-1), raw garlic (GAR) at 5, 10 and 15 mg mL(-1) and monensin (MON) at 7.5 µg mL(-1) of incubation medium on organic matter digestibility (OMD) was studied with in vitro gas production, ANKOM daisy(II) and conventional in vitro (IVOMD) methods. The material was incubated with sheep ruminal fluid and the experimental des...

A dataset of grasses and respective silages was collected by systematically varying the harvesting time in primary growth (n = 27) and in regrowth (n = 25). The swards were mixtures of timothy and meadow fescue. The grasses were ensiled unwilted with formic acid. Fixed or mixed regression procedure of SAS was used to investigate the relationships between composition of grasses and respective si...

in this study, the chemical composition of the tea wastes determined. the value of dry matter, organic matter, crude protein, crude fiber, calcium and phosphorous 95, 94, 13.3, 23.1, 0.011 and 0.29 percent, respectively. in the experiment of digestibility by animal, five experimental rations (including tea waste and alfalfa in the proportion of 0:100, 10:90, 20:80, 25:75 and 30:70 percent) and ...

chemical composition and metabolizable energy of three camel browsed halophyte species (atriplex leucoclada, suaeda fruticosa, seidlitzia rosmarinus) were assessed and in vitro digestibility of dm (ivdmd), om (ivomd), ndf (ivndfd), adf (ivadfd) were determined using a completely randomized design. plant samples were collected based on camel's grazing patterns during the autumn-winter grazi...

for this reason the samples were obtained from three area in kerman province that cartivate corn in large amounts (giroft, kahnooj, baft).the amounts of samples were enough for both voluntary consumption and investigation of digestibility. after that samples had been chopped by electric chopper we sampled again from every sample and its chemical compositions were determined with standard method...

Polyethylene glycol (PEG 4000), Browse Plus (BP), wood ash (WA) and boiling water were evaluated as tannin deactivation methods on tannins in Acacia nilotica fruits. Twenty four Matebele goats of mean body mass, 38.7 ± 3.12 kg, were used in a digestibility and nitrogen balance trial. A completely randomized design was used, and the initial weight was used as a covariate in data analysis. The go...