lary circulation and thereby reduces islet perfusion. Interestingly, in tropical countries and India a special form of non-alcoholic tropical calcifying pancreatitis leads to DM. Although little is known about the exact etiology of this form of diabetes it has been found that the -cell function is damaged whereas the  cells are preserved [6, 7] . This is in contrast to the non-tropical chronic...

We evaluated the effect of forage quality on response of cattle to supplementation with cooked molasses blocks. In Exp. 1, 175 heifers had ad libitum access to prairie hay (5.2% CP, DM basis). Treatments were a 2 x 3 factorial: supplementation with 0 or 1.96 kg/d of alfalfa DM, and supplementation with no cooked molasses block or with a low-protein or a high-protein cooked molasses block (14.4 ...

Two experiments were conducted to determine apparent ileal DM and crude-protein (CP) digestibilities in rations fed to pigs. An evaluation was made of Cr2O3 and HCl-insoluble ash as digestive markers. In addition, the effects of body weight (BW) on apparent ileal DM and CP (N x 6.25) digestibilities were studied. In Expt 1, thirteen barrows averaging 35 kg BW were fitted with post-valve T-caecu...

Abstract This batch culture study evaluated the effects of crude protein (CP) and fat concentration on ruminal dry matter disappearance (DMD), methane (CH4) production, fermentation in grass hay-based diets supplemented with by-product feeds. Eight treatments provided low or high CP (8 12% DM, respectively), a range concentrations (1.8 to 6.0% DM) included following: Control (grass hay only); c...

A total number of 48 male growing New Zealand rabbits were used to study the effect of two different levels of ration energy supplemented with mixture of Lupinus albus L, Trigonella foenum-graecum L and Cassia senna L as feed additives. Rabbits were classified into four equal groups (G1-G4). The 1 and 3 groups received basal ration with 100 % and 90 % energy requirement and served as first and ...

An experiment consisting of 2 identically designed trials was conducted to determine the nutrient composition and AMEn content of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to develop prediction equations for AMEn in broilers. Fifteen samples of DDGS ranging in ether extract (EE) from 3.15 to 13.23% (DM basis) were collected from various dry-grind ethanol plants and were subsequently fed to b...

Previous field studies have supported the absence of a nutritional cost outweighing the beneficial anthelmintic effect of supplementing the diet of grazing goats with tannin-containing heather. In order to further research in this regard, an experiment was conducted indoors with 18 does artificially infected with Trichostrongylus colubriformis. The goats were offered lucerne hay for 6 weeks and...

In this trial effects of feeding pistachio by-product silage with date waste (PBSD) on dry matter intake (DMI), live weight gain and blood parameters of lambs were studied. Ensiling of pistachio by-products (PBP) with date waste increased dry matter (DM) and metabolizable energy (ME), but decreased the percentages of crude protein (CP), total tannins and phenolic compounds (P