feed resources availability at cheap and affordable prices for livestock consumption are major factors determining capability of livestock production to supply products for increasing urban and cities consumers in nigeria. to take advantages of the high demand in urban areas, livestock producers on extensive pastoralism are moving closer to cities and urban communities such as abuja the nigeria...

The digestibility coefficient and metabolizable energy (ME) content of the most important pigeon feeds (corn, wheat, barley, red and white millet, sorghum, canary seed, peas, lentils, sunflower, and hemp) were determined. The experiment was carried out using 10 adult male homing pigeons. All feeds were fed alone, in a whole-grain form, ad libitum. Drinking water and grit were offered to the bir...

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...

The science goals of the SKA specify a field of view which is far greater than what current radio telescopes provide. Two possible feed architectures for reflector antennas are clusters of horns or phased-array feeds. This memo compares these two alternatives and finds that the beams produced by horn clusters fall short of fully sampling the sky and require interleaved pointings, whereas phased...

Thirty-five available feeds were fermented in vitro in order to investigate their soluble total organic carbon (TOCs) and methane (CH4) production rate. A fermentation reactor was designed to capture the CH4 gas emitted and to collect liquor from the reactor during in vitro fermentation. The results showed that CH4 production rate greatly varied among feeds with different ingredients. The lowes...

Web feeds are a popular way to access updates for content in the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, the technology behind web feeds is based on polling. Thus, clients ask the feed server regularly for updates. There are two concurrent problems with this approach. First, many times a client asks for updates, there is no new item and second, if the client’s update interval is too large it might be no...

High moisture, co-product feeds such as brewer’s and distiller’s grains can be economical feeds for ruminants. However, two major factors limit the use of these types of feeds. First, their high moisture content (approximately 50-70%) limits the distance that they can be economically shipped from their sources of production (perhaps 75 to 100 miles). Second, the aerobic stability of these feeds...

The Web is fastly becoming the predominant source for news and information for many people. In the past few years, a new delivery system has emerged in the form of RSS feeds. Such feeds normally provide a brief of a larger news posted on the Web. RSS feeds, collected to form “channels” according to some thematic criteria, can be accessed using Web browsers or specialized software called “news a...

The incorporation of feed-use (FU) amino acids (AAs) in diets results in a reduced use of protein-rich ingredients such as soybean meal, recognized to have elevated contributions to environmental impacts. This study investigated whether the incorporation of L-lysine.HCl, L-threonine and FU-methionine reduces the environmental impacts of pig and broiler feeds using Life Cycle Assessment. The fol...