The objective of this research was to evaluate the growth performance, the apparent ileal digestibility of nitrogen and energy, the retention of nutrients and the apparent metabolizable energy corrected to zero nitrogen retention (AMEn) in broiler chickens supplemented with increasing doses of a worm leachate (WL) as a source of humic substances (HS) in the drinking water. In Exp. 1, 140 male b...

OBJECTIVE An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of dietary supplementation of dried and ground foliage of black gram (Vigna mungo L.) on feed intake and utilization, and production performance of crossbred lactating cows. METHODS Eighteen lactating crossbred (Bos taurus×Bos indicus) cows (body weight 330.93± 10.82 kg) at their second and mid lactation (milk yield 6.77±0.54 kg/d) w...

A COMPLETE knowledge of the factors that contribute to the nutritive value of native grass and hay is of both practical and scientific value. Seasonal and environmental factors contribute largely to variations in the nutrient content of the grass, and other less well-defined factors apparently influence the availability of these nutrients in digestion. Factors associated with the physical chara...

Estimation of the energy value of a ration is fundamental for the determination of the quantity required to meet the energy requirement of the animal. Net Energy is the best estimate of the energy value of a feed/ration, but is difficult, time consuming and costly to determine. In addition, it is virtually impossible to measure the energy value of a single feedstuff fed to a representative anim...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the use calcium oxide (CaO) on nutritive profile, digestibility, and carbohydrate fractionation three sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum hybrids) genotypes: IAC-862480, SP-791011, CTC-3. Four CaO levels (0, 1.5, 3.0, 4.5% a fresh matter basis) were used in 3 × 4 factorial scheme, whose factors genotypes four oxide. chemical composition, fractionation, t...

Abstract Three trials were executed to examine the nutritive profile, metabolisable energy and digestible amino acid (AA) contents of four indigenous feed ingredients including wheat (W), middling (WM), canola meal (CM) rapeseed (RSM) in Nile tilapia. samples each test ingredient collected from three different locations Multan (MUL) Sukkar (SKR), Pakistan. The pooled thereafter make a homogenou...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of lemongrass [Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf.] powder (LGP) on rumen ecology, rumen microorganisms, and digestibility of nutrients. Four ruminally fistulated crossbred (Brahman native) beef cattle were randomly assigned according to a 4 x 4 Latin square design. The dietary treatments were LGP supplementation at 0, 100, 200, and 300 g/d w...

BACKGROUND Feeding polyphenol-rich plant products has been shown to increase the gain:feed ratio in growing pigs. The reason for this finding has not yet been elucidated. In order to find the reasons for an increase of the gain:feed ratio, this study investigated the effect of two polyphenol-rich dietary supplements, grape seed and grape marc meal extract (GSGME) or spent hops (SH), on gut morp...

It's expected that the Brazilian production of industrialized feed for horses reach 2 million tons by the year 2020. Feed processing consists of physical, chemical or biological modifications that are made in the feed. These modifications can increase the availability of nutrients for horses and/or preserve the quality of these nutrients in the raw material. The objective of this review was to ...

Background: This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of supplementing ruminant ration with propionibacterium P169 by using 3X3 Latin square Rahmani rams on feed intake, nutrients digestibility, rumen fermentation, blood plasma metabolites. Methods: Rams were divided into three groups with three successive experimental periods. Each period consisted of 21 days. Animals were fed on: rati...