Local feed resources, particularly low-quality roughages and agricultural crop-residues, are of prime importance for ruminants raised in the tropics. These feeds exhibit close relationships with rumen ecology, microbes and rumen fermentation patterns. A number of dietary factors could influence rumen fermentation especially the basal roughage source, its physical form and fermentation end-produ...

A total of 150 Hy-Line W-36 laying hens at 38 week of age were randomly assigned into 5 dietary treatments and 3 replicates each with 10 birds. Hens were fed diets including: low-selenium diet without selenium supplementation (basal diet), basal diet plus 0.3 ppm Na-selenite, or basal diet plus 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 ppm Sel-Plex. The hens performance, eggshell quality and egg selenium content were e...

This study aims to determine the egg production of layer strain isa brown with different patterns distribution rations in morning and afternoon. research was carried out Saentis Village, Percut Sei Tuan District, Deli Serdang Regency using 4,000 ISA chickens aged 20 weeks consisting first treatment 200 management giving 60% 40% during day, second used 2,000 50% ration Data were collected for 3 ...

Biotechnological achievements of recent years have emerged as powerful tool to improve quality attributes of livestock products including milk and meat products. Biotechnological approaches can be employed for improving productivity, economy, physicochemical and nutritional attributes of a wide range of livestock products. The target areas of biotechnological research in the field of livestock ...

The safety of food and feed depends to a great deal on quality control. Numerous compounds and organisms may contaminate food and feed commodities and thus pose a health risk for consumers. The compound of interest in this review is ochratoxin A (OTA), a secondary metabolite of the fungi Aspergillus and Penicillium. Due to its adverse health effects, detection and quantification are of utmost i...