This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of different levels of garlic (Allium sativum) on growth survival and nutritional characteristics of goldfish (Carassius auratus). For this purpose, 180 goldfish with an average initial weight of 1.18± 0.08 g were introduced randomly into 12 aquaria (50×30×40 cm) at 4 groups. After one week feeding on basal diet, the treatments were fed on exper...

Encephalartos hildebrandtii flour was prepared as described in the previous paper (Mugera and Nderito, 1968). The basal diet consisted of commercially available chicken mash, on which excellent growth of the control animals was obtained. The Encephalartos hildebrandtii flour was thoroughly mixed with the basal diet to give a 5 per cent concentration and fed to rats ad libitum. These were male a...

this experiment was conducted to compare the effects of multi-strain probiotic inclusion levels on performance, intestinal morphology, gut microflora and hematological changes in salmonella typhimurium (st) infected broiler chickens. a total of 120 day old ross 308 broiler chickens were distributed into 20 floor pens and reared for 10 days under 5 experimental treatments including a corn-soy ba...

Energy and protein utilization quantitative retention of protein, fat energy was investigated with twelve castrated West African Dwarf (WAD) sheep averaging (23.0 h 2.4 kg BW) in nitrogen balance trials. Dried leaves Leucaena leucocephala were offered as supplement at two levels 25% (diet 2) 50% 3) dry matter intake (DM1), replacing hay the basal diet. The diet without supplementation control. ...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of exogenous enzymes supplementation (ES) on performance, carcass traits and some blood parameters of broilers chickens. One hundred and eighty day old chicks with 40 ± 2 g initial body weight in a completely randomized design with 3 treatments and 4 replications were fed experimental diets included, 1) basal diet no enzymes (control), 2) bas...

This study was conducted because of influence of prebiotics (alphamune) and symbiotic (biomin) on histometrical development of small intestine and lymphatic tissue of caecal tonsil have been not reported on broiler chicken. In this study, different parts of small intestine and caecal tonsil, which is a major area of gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT) in chicken were selected. One hundred an...

the objective of the study was to evaluate chemical composition, in vitro dry matter digestibility (ivdmd), and growth performance of weanling boer-goats supplemented with cowpea seed hulls (csh) and commercial concentrate / feed (cf) with natural pasture as basal diet. weanling boer-goats (n=36) were assigned to 3 treatments comprising of 4 animals each (2 bucklings and 2 females) replicated t...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect eubiotics on intestinal morphology broilers. For purpose, 125 birds were divided into six groups with two replicates each (10 in replicate). Group A given a Basal diet. All except group challenged Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis. B provided basal diet, C fed Probiotic-added diet; D Prebiotics-based E essential oils plus and F organi...

Background: Nutritional strategies targeting improvement of poultry performance and disease prevention are currently being developed and in this respect the dietary intake of spiced essential oils and pre-biotics in raising broilers is receiving attention. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to compare the effects of diet containing ginger essential oils (GEO) and mannan-oligosaccharide (MOS) ...

in order to survey of using iodine levels above of nrc recommendations on performance and thyroidal hormones, sixteen holstein dairy cows with the average live body weight and daily milk production of 652 ± 43 and 32.9 ± 2.4 kg respectively, allocated to 4 treatments in a complete randomized design. the dietary treatments were 1) the basal diet (without potassium iodide) as control diet, 2, 3 a...