In the aquaculture industry, feed that is of poor quality or nutritionally imbalanced can cause problems including low weight, poor growth, poor palatability, and increased mortality, all of which can induce a decrease in aquaculture production. Fishmeal is considered a better source of protein and its addition as an ingredient in the aquafeed makes aquatic animals grow fast and healthy. This m...

The effect of diets with different levels of partly destoned exhausted olive cake (PDEOC) on growth performance and carcass traits of Gentile di Puglia breed lambs was studied. Sixty lambs (16.5 ± 0.5 kg) at weaning were randomly allocated to 3 isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets for 50 d. Pelleted total mixed rations (TMR) were formulated to provide olive by-product at 3 different levels: 1) a...

Water hyacinth is an aquatic plant, which can grow rapidly along the water area with rich of nutrients. Mostly this plant be alternative ingredient for fish feed because it contains various nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, minerals, amino acids, fatty secondary metabolites. However, plant-based, fiber and anti-nutritional factors tannins phytic acids degrade quality decrease g...

Despite the importance of feedstuffs and feed ingredients in the food chain, few studies have analyzed the effectiveness of usual methods for the microbial decontamination of feeds. This work aimed to study the combined effect of temperature and organic acids (formic or lactic) on the inactivation of 10 isolates of Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli obtained from vegetable feed ingredient...

A fifty (56) six day feeding trial was conducted with a view to assess the performance of growing rabbits fed graded levels of Senna occidentalis seedmeal(SOSM).Five experimental diets were compounded to contain Senna occidentalis seedmeal at concentration of 0, 2.5, 5 7.5 and 10% respectively. Twenty (20) growing rabbits of mixed sexes were randomly allotted to five dietary treatments in a ran...

This study determined if yellow mealworm larvae (YML) grown on deoxynivalenol (DON) contaminated wheat would affect broiler chicken performance. The YML were reared with low (LDW; 630 μg/kg) or high (HDW; 30,730 DON concentrations. concentrations in the dried insect meals 0 17.5 μg/kg for LDW and HDW, respectively. Seventy-five male Ross 708 broilers randomly placed into 15 cages one of three d...