An experiment was conducted to assess the optimum nutrient requirement and ideal mating ratios for Alabio ducks for production of fertile eggs and hatchability under rural feeding management. A total of 135 forty weeks old females and 27 males were used in the study. They were fed on low (17.5%), medium (19.5%) and high (21.5%) crude protein (CP) in diets containing approximately 3050 kcal of m...

Very preterm (VP, ≤30 wk gestational age) infants are at risk for impaired lung function, which significantly limits their ability to eat. A semielevated side-lying (ESL) position is a feeding strategy that may improve oral feeding by supporting breathing during feeding. The study evaluated the efficacy of the ESL position compared with the semielevated supine (ESU) position on physiological st...

Correct feeding and management of the young pig for optimum lifetime performance is a key goal of pig producers, although the associations between these variables are often difficult to quantify. It is well recognised that commercial growth rates of suckling and weaned pigs are less than those that can be achieved when pigs are reared independently of the sow and/or fed greater quantities of a ...

One of the most frequently asked questions regarding feeding the performance horse is when to feed before a competition. Several studies have evaluated how feeding grain before exercise affects plasma concentrations of nutrients and hormones and substrate utilization during exercise (Rodiek et al., 1991; Zimmerman et al., 1992; Lawrence et al., 1993; Lawrence et al., 1995; Stull and Rodiek, 199...

A nonexperimental study with a sample of 95 preterm infants was used to develop a model of feeding performance outcomes (proficiency, percent of prescribed volume consumed, and efficiency) using feeding readiness indicators (morbidity, maturity, behavior state at feeding start, and feeding experience). All readiness indicators were related to each other. In particular, there was a strong relati...

This paper describes the performance analysis of different feeding technique for wireless microstrip patch antenna i.e for wi-max applications. In this paper four types of feeding techniques (Microstrip line feed, coaxial probe feed, proximity coupled feed and aperture coupled feed) are used. From the four feeding techniques, microstrip line and coaxial probe feeds are contacting scheme, in whi...

Feeding performance is an organism's ability to capture and handle prey. Although bite force is a commonly used metric of feeding performance, other factors such as bite pressure and strike speed are also likely to affect prey capture. Therefore, this study investigated static bite force, dynamic speeds, and predator and prey forces resulting from ram strikes, as well as bite pressure of the ki...

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