Due to the growth in livestock population, increasing domestic consumption of animal products and growth of end-user companies, the Indian animal feed industry is predicted to take off in a big way in the coming decade. It is mainly restricted to dairy and poultry feed manufacturing. Feed is also required for the maintenance of laboratory animals. Ensuring quality is a major concern in feed man...

Aflatoxins are a type of mycotoxin that are toxic and extremely carcinogenic. Food for human consumption and feed for livestock are routinely tested for their presence. A sensitive analytical method for the determination and quantitation of four aflatoxins using the Bruker amaZon SL Ion Trap mass spectrometry system is presented here. Specifically, this method uses LC/MS/MS to quantify aflatoxi...

In the last fifteen years there were several feed-related outbreaks of morbidity and mortality in the Institute's breeding colony of Wistar rats. The last event took place in April 1999, one month after the use of a new supply of the usual standard rodent feed. Animals did not thrive and manifested generalised oedema, hypoalbuminaemia, elevated liver enzymes, and high mortality. The effect of f...

The ability of dairy cows to convert feedstuffs into products for human consumption is generally referred to as feed efficiency and is expressed as pounds of milk produced per pound of dry matter consumed. This expression represents a gross measure of feed efficiency and does not account for nutrients partitioned to reproduction, growth, and tissue deposition; thus interpretation of the value o...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of feed restriction on body weight, body weight gain, feed intake, and feed conversion ratio and carcass traits of broilers. Two hundred and forty one day old Hubbard broiler chicks were randomly distributed into five treatments. Each treatment included six replicates of 8 birds each. The five treatments were as follows: T1( birds were fed continu...

Contamination of animal and poultry feeds by Fusarium and the mycotoxin Fumonisin B1 is frequent in the feed supply chain. The present study evaluated the prevalence of fumonisin B1 producing Fusarium among irradiated and non-irradiated animal and poultry feed mixtures. Further, the efficiency of γ-rays (2.5, 5.0, 7.5, and 10.0 kGy) to minimize Fusarium growth and biosynthesis of fumonisin B1 i...

Accounting for transportation is an important part of the life cycle analysis (LCA) of beef cattle production because it is associated with energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper describes the development and application of a model that estimates energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of transport in beef cattle production. The animal transport model is based on th...