The extent of genotype and location effects on chemical composition and nutritive value of grains fed to animals was surveyed. The review covered the winter cereals (wheat, barley, oats, and triticale), the summer cereals (sorghum and maize), and the pulses (field pea, lupins, faba beans, and chickpea) when fed to cattle, sheep, poultry, pigs, rats, and mice. The bulk of the literature does not...

the aim of this research was determination of nutritive value of cressa cretica with gas test method, in vivo digestibility and degradability with nylon bag method in three phenological stages. the amount of crude protein decreased significantly in seeding stage. but the amount of ndf and adf increased in seeding stage. the degradability of dry matter and rapid and slowly degradable fractions d...

Rice is the major foodgrain of the world and it is the principle cereal consumed in India and other parts of Asia1. Milling of paddy to obtain edible rice grain yields two major byproducts of economic and nutritional importance, namely, paddy husk and rice bran. Paddy husk has no food value but has several industrial uses. Rice bran, on the other hand, can serve as an animal feed, as a human fo...

By B. B. BRAHMACHARI, d.p.h. Director of Public Health Laboratory, Bengal As I have shown in my article on the vitamin value of the food fats of Bengal (Brahmachari, 1932), mustard oil, i.e., the oil expressed from the seeds of the mustard plants, and ghee are the only two fats which enter, as such, into the dietary of the people of Bengal, and, of the two, mustard oil is the more important. It...

There is a tendency to consider forages largely in terms of their energy value or TDN. However, the feeding value of forage is actually a more complex function of its nutrient composition, chemical-physical characteristics of its fiber, acceptability (palatability), and associative interactions it might have with other dietary ingredients. Because forages are not usually cost-competitive with c...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of inoculation of homo-fermentative lactic acid bacteria(lab) on ensiling characteristics and nutritive value of low dry matter corn silage (ldmcs). corn foragewas harvested at milk stage (22.8 ± 0.9% dm), chopped at theoretical length of cut (tlc) 2.5 cm, and stored in eighteen 3.8 l mini silos for each treatment. the following treatments were u...

The old-established growth method of Osborne, Mendel & Ferry (1919) for determining the protein efficiency ratio (PER) of protein sources has recently been suggested both in Canada (Chapman, Castillo & Campbell, 1959) and the USA (Derse, 1960) as a routine method for assessing the nutritive value of proteins. Njaa (1963) in a detailed study of the nitrogen balance sheet method for measurement o...