Milk fat yield affects the price received for milk by dairy farmers, and given the rising feed costs, maximizing diet digestibility is critical for the economical viability of dairy farms. Although feeding animal-vegetable fat or coconut oil to dairy cows can increase energy intake, they sometimes cause milk fat depression (MFD). Feeding monensin has been found to increase feed efficiency and m...

The present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of sweet potato powder (SPP) and water as a fat replacer in low-fat pork patties. Low-fat pork patties were developed by replacing the added fat with combinations of SPP and chilled water. Three different levels of SPP/chilled water viz. 0.5/9.5% (T-1), 1.0/9.0% (T-2), and 1.5/8.5% (T-3) were compared with a control containing 10% anim...

An experiment was carried out to determine the effect of corn silage particle size and fat supplements on performance, solid passage rate through the digestive tract, and chewing behavior in dairy cows. The forages were coarse or fine corn silage with geometric means of 8.8±2.7 and 5.6±2.8 mm, and alfalfa with geometrics means of 7.0±3.3 mm, and fat supplements were neutral fat (palm) and soy-o...

to study the effects of environmental factors on milk and fat yields (240day) traits of iranian buffaloes, 22596 and 22165 records were utilized for milk and fat yield traits, respectively. uni and bivariate analysis for estimation of (co)variation components of the traits were done in five lactations. milk yield in the 1st lactation had the highest number of records (4482), collected through c...

introduction: expansion of the area of oilseed crops such as soybean is one of the policies of iranian agricultural policy makers as iran is one of the major oilseed importers in the world. however, the area of this crop in kermanshah province is negligible, but it could be cultivated in most parts of this province. the quantity and quality of the produced grain could be affected by environment...

In order to estimate genetic parameters for production traits and reproductive performance, 115 465 records of production traits and 90 942 records of reproductive performance from Iranian Holstein cows that were collected during 1980 to 2004 at Animal Breeding Center of Iran, were used. The estimations were performed using Restricted Maximum Likelihood method (REML) under an animal model by DF...

Calving records from the Animal Breeding Center of Iran collected from January 1990 to December 2007 and comprising 207 106 first calving events of Holsteins from 2 506 herds were analysed using linear sire models to estimate genetic trends for age at first calving (AFC) and milk traits. Genetic trends were obtained by regressing yearly mean estimates of breeding values on year of birth. In gen...

the effect of3levels of methionine (nrc recommended, 5 percent more than nrc recommended and 10 percent more than nrc recommended) and 2 levels of fat (0 and 5 percent) on some economical traits (performance and carcass) of broilers using a 2x3 factorial experiment with completely randomized design based on two rearing stages, starter (0-3 wk) and grower (4-6 wk) was studied. anova of the effec...

OBJECTIVE This experiment was studied the effects of various levels of crude glycerin (CG) in dairy goat diet on daily intake, milk yield, milk composition, some physical properties and some quality changes of goat milk after sterilization. METHODS Twelve 75% Saanen dairy goats (body weight = 49±3 kg; days in milk = 60±12 d) were randomly assigned in a completely randomized design to evaluate...