The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of diets containing different levels of milk thistle (0, 100 and 200 g/kg dry matter) and grains (barley and corn) with different rumen degradation rates on rumen bacteria and whole rumen microorganisms (WRM) of Khuzestan buffalo. The gas production (GP) technique, two steps digestion and specific bacteria culture medium methods were us...

this experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of phytase superdoses alone or in combination with citric acid (ca) in canola meal-based diets severely limited in available phosphorus (pa) on growth performance, plasma phosphorus (p), and tibia ash (ta) in broilers from 22 to 42 d of age. two hundreds and eighty 21-d-old male broilers were used in 28 pens of 10 birds per each. the exper...

this study was performed with growing chicken (14 to 56 d of age) to evaluate the effects of feeding them a barley or triticale-based diet. the treatments were corn diet (1) as a control, hulless barley diet with (5) or without (2) enzyme, triticale diet with (6) or without (3) enzyme and hulled barley diet with (7) or without (4) a commercial β-glucanase enzyme. in a digestibility trial, 21 ma...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of phytase superdoses alone or in combination with citric acid (CA) in canola meal-based diets severely limited in available phosphorus (Pa) on growth performance, plasma phosphorus (P), and tibia ash (TA) in broilers from 22 to 42 d of age. Two hundreds and eighty 21-d-old male broilers were used in 28 pens of 10 birds per each. The exper...

This research was conducted to investigate the effect of inclusion of wheat bran (as a source of insoluble fiber) in a barley-based diet, fed from 11 to 42 d of age, on villus morphology of jejunum, serum cholesterol level, abdominal fat pad and growth performance of broiler chickens. Three hundred and thirty six 10-d-old female Ross 308 chicks were allocated to six diets with four replicates o...

in order to evaluate the effects of chlorella on broiler performance and immune system, an experimentwas performed by using 80 ross 308 male broiler chicks. the experiment was accomplished incompletely randomized design including 5 treatments with 4 replication and 4 observations in eachreplicate. the basal diet was based on corn-soybean meal (control) and without any additives. agraded level o...

the aim of this study was to investigate the processing methods of sorghum grain and diet formulation on performance and nutrients digestibility in broilers. three hundred and twenty chicks at eight day of age were allotted into eight groups of four replicate with ten chicks per replicate. this research was conducted as completely randomized design arranged in a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial experiment u...