roid had been active to maintain calcium due to low intake. They proposed the following formula for use during the dry period (in pounds): Ground barley, 800; rolled barley, 600; wheat bran, 500; cottonseed meal, 100; monosodium phosphate, 40; and salt, 10. Each cow should receive 8 pounds a day for 6 weeks before freshening plus 8 pounds of oat hay or poor hay. In several herds where the incid...

This study was conducted to assess and categorize the feeds formulated with three different combinations of cereals and pulses (black gram and maize; Bengal gram and barley; red gram and rice) along with coconut oilcake and soya meal for sustainable maintenance of Macrobrachium malcolmsonii post larvae (PL). Two types of feeds in each combination (type-A: 25% pulse + 25% cereal; type-B: 40% pul...

this study aims at investigating the effectiveness of utilizing barley as a flushing ration with an energizing source and soybean meal-based diets as a flushing ration with a protein source the sexual and breeding behaviors in ghezel sheep. to this end, 36 three and half-year old ewes (51±1.5 kilograms) with the record of giving birth to two lambs and 6 three-year old (89±2.5 kilograms) rams we...

Although visceral organs represent only about 15% of the pig’s body weight, they account for about 45% of whole body oxygen consumption. The effect of diet on organ mass and in vitro oxygen consumption by some visceral organs was investigated in a study using 15 Yorkshire male castrates (18.961.5 kg initial body weight). Diets were based on casein-corn starch (CC), barley-canola meal (BCM) or b...

One hundred sixty crossbred steers (538 ± 36 kg BW) were used in an 84-d experiment with a randomized block design to study the effects of wheat or barley grain processed to 2 different indices on growth performance, feeding behavior, carcass characteristics, stress, and temperament of finishing beef cattle. Treatments were a wheat-based diet (88.4% of diet DM; WH) and a barley-based diet (89% ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a probiotic on in situ ruminal DM, OM, CP and starch degradability values some energy protein sources commonly used ruminant nutrition. In study, degradation kinetics fractions dry matter, organic crude protein, 6 different feedstuffs (barley, wheat, corn, sunflower seed meal, cottonseed meal soybean meal) anima...

Material and methods Four geldings in a Latin Square design were fed 4 diets: (H) timothy hay, (OB) whole oats and molassed sugar beet pulp (Betfor), (BB) whole barley and Betfor, chaff based concentrate (M). Starch did not exceed 1 g starch per kg BW per meal. The horses were fasted 8 hours prior to sampling. Blood was drawn via jugular vein puncture into heparinized vacutainer tubes at time 0...

The present study was aimed at determining rumen phosphorus availability of some feedstuffs assessed with the nylon bag technique: forage (alfalfa), cereals (control-C wheat, formaldehyde treated-FT wheat, barley, corn), cereal by-products (wheat bran, wheat distillers, corn distillers) and meals (C and FT soya bean meals, rapeseed meals and sunflower meals). Rumen phosphorus availability was n...

The effect of the substitution of imported raw materials (corn and soyabeans) by local food resources (barley, white sorghum, triticale and horse bean) on the parameters of faciesfermentation and digestibility in the rumen of sheep was evaluated. Four Sicilo-Sarde rams 4.8±0.5 years of age with an average live weight of 45.25±3.5 kg, permanently canulated in the rumen and housed in individual c...