This study aimed to identify chemical composition of Thymus kotschyanus essential oil (TKEO) and to evaluate the effects of different doses of TKEO on in vitro gas production, fermentation parameters, acidosis and protozoal population using a completely randomized design with four replicates. Two diets (D1: 100% forage and D2: 30% forage+70% concentrate) were incubated with buffered rumen fluid...

Background and Purpose: Pollen can, as a means of genetic resource, contribute to conservation of endemic plants. Therefore we started with palynological study of endemic plants from refuges of the Alpine-Dinaric region and here present preliminary results on pollen morphology of two most famous representatives of Croatian endemic plants from Velebit Mts, Degenia velebitica and Sibiraea altaien...

zink deficiency in calcareous soils of arid and semi-arid regions is a limiting factor for crop yield. bean is considered as one of sensitive plants to zinc (zn) deficiency. to study the responses of various bean genotypes to soil zinc deficiency, a greenhouse experiment was carried out. a factorial completely randomized design with three replications was conducted. the first factor was two lev...

AIM The aim of the current study was to protect the protein in mustard cake by different levels of formaldehyde treatment with a view to optimize the level of formaldehyde. MATERIALS AND METHODS Different levels of formaldehyde treatment (0, 1, 1.5 and 2% of crude protein) containing concentrate and roughages diet in 40:60 ratio were tested for their effect on nutrients digestibility, in vitr...

lipids in liver wet and dry matter, liver moist and dry matter and their relationships were investigated based on species, sex and age in cows, buffaloes, sheep and goats. mean percentage of lipids in liver wet and dry matter and liver dry matter in cows were 3.60%, 1.10%, 29.70%, and for buffaloes were 5.30%, 1.55%, 29.20%, sheep 3.00%, 0.83%, 27.90%, and goats 2.910%, 1.55% and 28.40%, respec...

Dry matter intake (DMI) is fundamentally important in nutrition because it establishes the amount of nutrients available to an animal for health and production. Actual or accurately estimated DMI is important for the formulation of diets to prevent underfeeding or overfeeding of nutrients and to promote efficient nutrient use. Underfeeding of nutrients restricts production and can affect the he...