Under experimental conditions an African face fly (Musca xanthomelas) preferred to feed on cattle dung when provided with a choice of 3 different meals namely sucrose, cattle dung and blood. Flies starved overnight fed well on the eyes of cattle and rabbits, but were reluctant to feed again within 2 h after being allowed to feed on cell culture medium or on the eyes of wildebeest, and when they...

2. Cortney L. Ohs, assistant professor, Indian River Research and Education Center; Eric J. Cassiano, graduate student; and Adelaide Rhodes, post-doctoral research associate, Indian River Research and Education Center, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of ...

It is well established that small-sized live feed with sufficient DHA, EPA and ARA as starter feed is the key factor for the success in larviculture of marine fishes with altricial larvae having limited yolk, which are in an undeveloped state at hatching. Copepods form a major component of the natural diet of many fish larvae and the wide range of body sizes of copepods both within and between ...

The livestock and poultry industry is facing numerous challenges to keep up with the increasing demand for high quality animal protein due to the continuously increasing global human population, severe drought conditions around the world, and grains being used for ethanol production. Since feed costs are the majority of the total cost required to produce a live bird, feed efficiency (FE) is a t...

this experiment was conducted to determine the chemical composition and gross energy of poultry by product meal (pbpm) and the effects of different levels of inclusion of poultry by product meal on broiler chicken performance, serum uric acid and carcass characteristics. three samples of pbpm produced in ardabil province located in northwest of iran, were provided during one month sampling peri...

 Co-feeding of fish larvae with live food and formulated diet has been at the focus of fish nutritionists since last decade. In this study we tried to refine the feeding practices of great beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) larvae using different combinations of newly hatched Artemia urmiana nauplii and trout starter diet. Three replicate groups (250 fish/replicate) of first-feeding Huso huso larvae w...

in order to study the effect of different levels of β-mannanase enzyme on the performance, blood parameters and carcass characteristics of broiler chicks (arbor acres), an experiment was conducted with 240 checks (44.6 grams average weight) under a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 5 replications and 12 checks per each replicate. β-mannanase enzyme with the levels of zero (t1 c...

Interest point detection is the vital aspect of computer vision and image processing. Interest point detection is very important for image retrieval and object categorization systems from which local descriptors are calculated for image matching schemes. Earlier approaches largely ignored color aspect as interest point calculation are largely based on luminance. However the use of color increas...

The present study was conducted on Hubbard classic broiler parents in the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) poultry farm in Chittagong, Bangladesh to know the productive, reproductive performance and for modelling the performances for their prediction. The average live weight and egg production of Hubbard classic broiler parent were obtained as 3412.48 ± 137.773 g/hen and 170.99 ± 1...

 Co-feeding of fish larvae with live food and formulated diet has been at the focus of fish nutritionists since last decade. In this study we tried to refine the feeding practices of great beluga sturgeon (Huso huso) larvae using different combinations of newly hatched Artemia urmiana nauplii and trout starter diet. Three replicate groups (250 fish/replicate) of first-feeding Huso huso ...