In Côte d’Ivoire, the quail breeding is confronted with lack of food specific to species. Thus, in south-east this country, an experimental study was conducted at ISMOREL farm sub-prefecture Adiaké. This study, which aims improve productivity day-to-day farms, focused on grain size feed. From grower (GD) and layer (LD) diets, 5 diets have been manufactured. There are: LD a particle mm, 3 GD mm ...

Nicholas, BUTA-B6 and BUTA-T2 strains (A, B, and C) were reared in a total of 24 floor pens (0.309m2/bird) and fed commercial diets until 19 wk of age. The basal feeding program (calculated analysis) included a pre-starter (0-3 wk; 28.3% CP; 1.51% Ca; 1.04% tP), starter (3-6 wk; 27.8% CP; 1.50% Ca; 1.03% tP), grower-I (6-9 wk; 24.5% CP; 1.48% Ca; 1.00% tP), grower-II (9-11 wk; 22.5% CP; 1.39% C...

in order to study the effect of different levels of desiccated ox bile (dob; 0.00, 0.25, and 0.50%) and organic acid (oa; 0.00, 0.15, and 0.30% of the diet) on performance, fat digestibility, blood metabolites and ileal digesta viscosity in broiler chickens fed diets containing 5% tallow, in a completely randomized design with a 3×3 factorial arrangement and 4 replicates in each treatment, 360 ...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of scent leaf meal on growth performance, blood and serum parameters growing cockerels. A total ninety-six (96) Isa-brown day-old cockerel chicks were used in a completely randomized design experiment. The birds randomly allotted four dietary treatments consisting basal diets supplemented with (SLM) at rate 0% (control), 1%, 2% 3% representing T1,...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of animal management and farm facilities on total feed intake (TFI), feed conversion ratio (FCR) and mortality rate (MORT) of grower-finishing pigs. In total, 310 batches from 244 grower-finishing farms, consisting of 454 855 Pietrain sired pigs in six Spanish pig companies were used. Data collection consisted of a survey on management practices...

The feed resource for animals is a major cost determinant for profitability in livestock production enterprises, and thus any effort at improving the efficiency of feed use will help to reduce feed cost. Feed conversion ratio, expressed as feed inputs per unit output, is a traditional measure of efficiency that has significant phenotypic and genetic correlations with feed intake and growth trai...

Two experiments were conducted to examine the calcium requirements of broiler chickens fed corn-soybean meal diets. Experiment 1 used a 6 x 2 x 2 factorial arrangement and was conducted with broilers in floor pens during the grower phase (19 to 42 d). Diets were mixed with 6 levels of dietary Ca (0.325, 0.4, 0.475, 0.55, 0.625, and 0.9%) and 17 or 23% CP and fed to males and females separately....

Feed intake is the major factor that influences both the body weight gain and feed efficiency in meat-type poultry. Because so many factors can influence feed intake, it is often difficult to correct a problem of poor feed intake unless a complete review of feed and management practices is made. Management and flock health issues are usually more likely to reduce feed intake than dietary factor...

An experiment was conducted from 18th October, 2006 to 18th January, 2007 at IAAS Livestock Farm, Rampur, Chitwan to determine the substitution effects of soybean meal with brewer’s dried grain (BDG) on the performance, economics and meat traits of swine production. Starter, grower and finisher diets were formulated containing 18, 16, and 14% CP respectively with 3000 Kcal/kg ME and adequately ...