a study was carried out to evaluate the probiotic activity of bacillus subtilis g1 isolated from fermented pickles in growth performance and disease resistance of hemibagrus nemurus fingerlings at universiti putra malaysia. the probiotic was mixed in feed at doses of 0 (c, control), 3 x 109 (t1) 3 x 107 (t2) and 3 x 105 (t3) cfu g-1 and fed to the catfish fingerlings for nine weeks. results sho...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of beta plus probiotic, a mixture of bacillius leicheniformic and bacillius subtilis , on the growth performance and intestinal microbial flora of caspian trout ( salmo caspius ). a basal diet was formulated and supplemented with beta plus at 0, 0.5 and 1 g kg -1 , leading to three experimental diets. each experimental diet was randomly assigned ...

the present study was conducted to investigate the clinical effects and possible side effects of yarrow extract ( achillea millefolium l.) as feed additive on biochemical blood parameters and growth performance of rainbow trout ( oncorhynchus mykiss ). fishes were treated with 0 (control), 0.1, 0.5 and 1% of yarrow extract for 30 days. plasma alanine aminotransferase (alt), aspartate aminotrans...

this study was performed with growing chicken (14 to 56 d of age) to evaluate the effects of feeding them a barley or triticale-based diet. the treatments were corn diet (1) as a control, hulless barley diet with (5) or without (2) enzyme, triticale diet with (6) or without (3) enzyme and hulled barley diet with (7) or without (4) a commercial β-glucanase enzyme. in a digestibility trial, 21 ma...

rozbeh fallah1, sayed sadra ale saheb fosoul1*, hasan rezaei2 1-department of animal science, faculty of agriculture, lorestan university, khorramabad, iran 2- department of animal science, islamic azad university, ghaemshahr, iran     * corresponding author: [email protected]   received: 20 september 2013 accepted: 21 november 2013     abstract   the present experiment was conducted ...

background: following the ban on the use of growth stimulant antibiotics in many countries, interest has arisen in finding  a suitable alternative for antibiotics in poultry production. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of supplementation of two levels of nano-copper (0 and 100 mg/kg) and two levels of mannan oligosaccharide (0 or 1 g/kg) as natural growth stimulan...

effect of different photoperiodic regimes was evaluated on growth performance and survival rate of the beluga ( huso huso ) prelarvae and larvae. newly hatched prelarvae were stored in 5 round fiberglass 500‑l tank with different photoperiod (24l:00d, 18l:06d, 12l:12d, 06l:18 d, 00l:24d) till 50 days post hatch with three replicates. light intensity was 200 lux during the experiment. feeding wa...

the effect of a commercial probiotic (protexin) on growth performance and survival rate in sobaity sparidentex hasta was investigated. 240 fish with average weight of 2.99±0.87g were treated for 10 weeks. this study was carried out in a completely random design with 12 experimental groups, in 4 treatments each with 3 replicates. experimental groups were consisted of four levels of 0.0, 0.5, 1.0...

feed restriction strategies are proven to be effective in increasing the growth performance and carcass parameters of broiler chickens. the objective of the present experiment was to evaluate the effects of feedremoval for three hour time periodon growth performance and carcass parameters of relatively older male broiler chickens. twenty days old male broiler chickens (n=80) were allocated into...