a total of 1440 arian chicks were used in this study to determine the effects of diet formulation methods on performance and blood parameters of arian chicks. eight diets were arranged in a 2×2×2 factorial design with 2 methods of energy expression (apparent (amen) and true (tmen) metabolizable energy corrected to n equilibrium), 2 methods of amino acids content of feeds (total (taaf) and diges...

Evaluating the effect of dietary soybean oil (S.O) on growth performances of juvenile ornamental fish Severum (Heros severus) was the main objective of this study. To achieve this objective, 462 fish were considered which were divided into 7 test groups including 6 groups of fishes (with an initial average weight of 0.6 ± 0.05 g and length of 2.3±0.35 cm) fed diets containing 6 levels of S.O (D...

Both physicians and veterinarians frequently recommend a “bland” diet for nonspecific GI upset. When asked “What is the definition of bland diet?” veterinarians often respond “chicken and rice” or “hamburger and rice” or “baby food” or they name a veterinary therapeutic diet. Interestingly, when pressed for a definition, the most common answer is “easily (or highly) digestible” and the second m...

Due to similarities in lipid metabolism to those in humans, hamster is considered as a good model for the study of regulatory mechanisms of plasma lipoproteins in response to cholesterol or fatty acid-enriched diet. This model of hyperlipidemia has been modified to produce dyslipidedmia with diabetes complexities by feeding with high fat diet added with 9% (w/w) fructose. Feeding this diet to h...

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of three antibiotic alternatives with a control (Antibiotic-free) and an antibiotic diet on performance and gut morphology of broilers reared on litter. 600 day-old ROSS-308 chicks were assigned to 48 pens in a CRD design with 6 × 2 factorial arrangements, in which 2 levels of chick density (5 and 7.5 chicks/m2) and 6 experimental diets (control,...

Farmed gilthead seabream is sometimes affected by a metabolic syndrome, known as the "winter disease", which has a significant economic impact in the Mediterranean region. It is caused, among other factors, by the thermal variations that occur during colder months and there are signs that an improved nutritional status can mitigate the effects of this thermal stress. For this reason, a trial wa...