Molting is a process commonly utilized by commercial laying facilities to extend and improve the productivity of a flock. This practice usually involves the deprivation of feed for a period of several days in order to rejuvenate the reproductive system. Due to food safety and comsumer awareness factors, alternatives to this approach are being investigated. Feeding alfalfa as an insoluble fiber ...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of the form of diets with different levels of protein and energy on broilers performance at the end of the third week. A total of 2800 male broiler chicks were fed with two forms of diet (mash and crumble-pellet), two levels of protein (23% and 21% CP), and two levels of energy (3200 and 3000 Kcal/Kg ME) from 1 to 21 days of age. The bodyw...

Experiment 1 consisted in the genetic selection of two divergent lines D+ and Don the basis of AMEn value measured at 3 weeks of age with birds being fed a wheat diet, using the wheat Rialto cultivar characterised by a high in-vitro viscosity value. Significant difference (3413 J/g DM; P< 0.0001) in AMEn between lines reached 29 % on 4 generation. From the experiment 2 consisting in the test of...

abstract this investigation was conducted to replace artificial food with gammarus and study this effect on survival and growth parameters of jewel in case of completely randomized design with 3 treatments and 3 replicates in each treatments. 270 jewel fishes with initial mean weight of 1.22±0.72 were reared in 9 aquariums (30 fishes in each aquarium) with volume of 100 liter water. experimenta...

The objective of this experiment was to determine the effects medium chain fatty acids (MCFA) in mash and crumbled pellet broiler diets. A total 400 male chicks (Cobb 500; initial BW 0.092 lb) were housed 4 Petersime batteries used an 18-d study. Treatments randomly assigned 80 cages within location block resulting 8 per treatment with 5 cage at placement. arranged a 2 × factorial main feed typ...

In the first study, we tested the ability of a commercial feed additive (OmniGen-AF) to affect markers of innate immunity in immunosuppressed sheep and the ability of a pathogen challenge (mould) to affect the immune response to the additive. Treatments consisted of (1) control, (2) immunosuppressed with dexamethasone (DEX), (3) immunosuppressed plus the feed additive, (4) immunosuppressed plus...

Feed was first pelleted in the US in the early 1900’s. All commercial broilers & turkeys are fed feed that has been pelleted, a process which has not really changed much over these many years. In fact, the exact economic benefit may not be well defined. Feed mills exist today as part of all integrated operations, and are thought of as a necessary, major cost center. Most have worked hard to red...