Voluntary Feed Intake (VFI) and Average Daily Gain (ADG) of three rabbit breeds fed on pigeon pea (PP), cowpea (CoP) soybean (SB) as sources protein for growing rabbits were determined. Flemish Giant (FG), California Black (CB) New Zealand White (NZW)) (Glycine max), (Cajunus cajan) (Vigna unguiculata) in the ration. Eighteen weaned at six weeks age used each breed (a total 54 rabbits) out whic...

20 Feed management strategies that maximise shrimp growth and optimise feed utilisation are 21 critical to the cost effectiveness of production.. In this study, juvenile shrimp (~3 g) were 22 cultured for six weeks in a laboratory based clear-water tank system. The experiment design 23 was a three way factorial with two diets (Diet A – standard industry formulation, or Diet B – 24 the same diet...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary forage type and concentrate-to-forage ratio (CTFR) on CH4 emissions from dairy cows in China using the SF6 tracer method. Rumen fluid concentrations of NH4-N and VFA, rumen fluid pH, and daily milk yield were measured as well. The dietary regimens included: corn stalks (dry corn stalks after corn harvest) as the forage source at CTFR o...

Forty eight 8-month-old male goats were divided into three groups. In each group, eight goats were feedrestricted for 45, 60 or 75 days, and eight goats served as the control. Restricted groups were fed with a maintenance ration, and the control goats were fed with a ration supporting 50 g of daily weight gain. At the end of restriction period, the restricted goats were offered the same ration ...

a feeding trial of 120 days duration was conducted to study the effect of replacing 20 and 25 % of camel ration by poultry litter (pl) on the performance and some blood biochemical parameters. fifteen healthy one–humped camels were allotted into three groups (5 animals / group). the first group was fed a basal ration and considered as control, while the second and third groups were fed rations ...

the effect of daily oral administration of ephedrine (0, 1, 2, 4 or 8 mg kg-1 w0.75) on carcasscharacteristics of forty-four 2 yr old crossbred (mehraban x ghezel) fat-tailed ewes was studied. theewes were fed a fattening ration, and received ephedrine by using a drenching gun for either 50 or 70days. there was a significant interaction (p

Estimation of the energy value of a ration is fundamental for the determination of the quantity required to meet the energy requirement of the animal. Net Energy is the best estimate of the energy value of a feed/ration, but is difficult, time consuming and costly to determine. In addition, it is virtually impossible to measure the energy value of a single feedstuff fed to a representative anim...

Fif teen lactating Holstein cows in a 3 × 3 Latin square experiment determined effects of ground newspaper in the diet. Test components of the rations were: A) 20% cottonseed hulls; B) 10% paper and 10% cottonseed hulls; C) 20% paper. All animals received 2.3 kg of long alfalfa hay daily. Proximate analysis and gross energy determinations indicated that the paper rations contained more crude fi...

The influence of nutrition during the last trimester of pregnancy and the early postpartum period on postpartum LH secretion was evaluated in two-year-old Hereford and Simmental heifers maintained on a high or low plane of nutrition (experiment 1) or in Hereford heifers fed a high or low energy (150% vs 100% NRC) ration (experiment 2). Amount of LH released with 10 mg estradiol benzoate (IM) at...