High-moisture cereal grains are often treated with ammonia to prevent spoilage and for perceived animal performance advantages, but there few reports on the effects of treatment cattle performance. This study was carried out 101 Charolais quantify feeding ammonia-treated maize intensively fattened beef cattle. Animals were assigned 16 pens in two sheds all animals each pen fed same diet 176 d. ...

Context Increasing demand for livestock products in developing countries provides opportunities smallholder farmers to increase and diversify their income through increased production. However, production these systems is often limited by inadequate animal nutrition, need ways the availability quality of feed without compromising yields food crops or increasing area land planted forages. Aim Us...

Context Leucaena leucocephala (leucaena) is a leguminous shrub used for beef grazing in low-rainfall regions (<600–700 mm). Newer cultivars have the potential to extend adoption of species higher rainfall (>600–700 mm), frost-free areas Australia. Aim We compared productivity, nutritional value and animal performance two leucaena cultivars, new psyllid-resistant Redlands 2010-released Won...

________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The objective of this experiment was to determine whether faba bean could successfully be used in feeds for weaner pigs in the period 10 to 25 kg liveweight. An experiment was conducted using 48 weaner pigs (average weight 10 ± 0.42 kg) to determine the nutritive value of dehulled faba bean meal (Vicia fab...

The present study was conducted to examine the effects of offering a single diet rationed to 80% (80% ME), 100% (100% ME), or 120% (120% ME) of recommended ME requirements from d 119 of gestation to lambing, with concurrent changes in other dietary nutrients. The effects on pre- and postpartum ewe performance, including estimated milk yield and milk fatty acid concentrations, were monitored. Si...

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an experiment was conducted under completely randomized design to investigate effect of various levels of terbutalin, a bete-adrenergic agonist, by procuring 120, 35-d age male cobb broiler chicks from d 29-49. the birds were randomely distributed into 3 treatments and 4 replicates with10 birds each. the birds were fed experimental diets with different levels of terbutaline at levels 0.0 (contr...

The hypothesis tested was that tropical steers supplemented with the Desmanthus legume and lucerne, a widely characterized temperate of high nutritive value, would elicit similar responses in plasma metabolite profiles, productive performance, nitrogen retention, volatile fatty acids (VFA). tannin-binding compound, polyethylene glycol-4000 (PEG), added to diets (160 g/kg dry matter) objective f...