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Digestion And Metabolism

Thursday, June 1, 2017
Hydroxy trace minerals show heavier carcass weights compared to sulphate-fed broilers
A study performed in Spain found that birds yielded larger live and carcass weights and a higher percentage of breast meat when fed hydroxy trace minerals as compared to broilers fed inorganic trace minerals.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Evaluation of the apparent phosphorus digestibility coefficients of MCP and DCP for Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Knowing as an essential dietary nutrient for aquatic species, phosphorus (P) is a component of hard tissues (bone, exoskeleton, scales, and teeth) but also DNA and phospholipids. It is mainly supplied by feeding since P content in natural w ...
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Trace minerals and livestock: not too much not too little
The new approaches of the animal production systems make managing the mineral nutrition a challenge. Versus the excessive, trace mineral supply in intensively managed livestock, well above the physiological requirements, is the no trace min ...
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Proper nutrition fundamental for strengthening sow offspring
Sows have been bred to increase litter size and milk production, as well as improve other productivity traits. With such successful selection, litter size has increased and, in general, piglet birth weight has decreased. Low birth weight pi ...
Thursday, May 25, 2017
The nutrition effect and formulations application of trace elements
Trace elements consist of Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, I, Se, Co, Cr etc, accounting for less than 0.01% of the total body weight only. As aminoacids and vitamins, the trace elements are the essential nutrition additives in feeds, especially Fe, Zn and ...
Monday, October 24, 2016
Editorial: Gut health: the new paradigm in food animal production
Optimal gut health is of vital importance to the performance of production animals. Gut health is synonymous in animal production industries with animal health. Although there does appear to be a direct relationship between animal performan ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Importance of intestinal microbiota in animal performance
Microbiota is defined by Sekirov as a term defining a set of commensal, autochthonic microorganisms, co-existing with a host without causing any harm. Freter defined intestinal microbiota as "the usually complex mixture of bacterial populat ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Herbal replacement for synthetic DL-Methionine in Poultry
Methionine is an essential amino acid i.e. it is not synthesised by the body and has to be supplemented externally. It means that a bird requires it from sources like feed which opens the business opportunities for all those industries whic ...
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Mineral supplementation in aquaculture
While there is substantial knowledge concerning the mineral requirements of land animals, there is little known about the trace mineral requirements for fish and shrimp. This is primarily due to the difficulties of conducting research in ma ...
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Grinding, mixing, conditioning and their influence on starch modification and pellet quality
Besides the selection of raw materials the processing technique applied to feedstuff has a major influence on pellet / product quality. It starts with grinding and the grinding degree and is continued by conditioning with steam addition, th ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
BASF Mycotoxin Binders: Novasil Plus and Novasilect AF
Aflatoxins are produced by several species of the Aspergillus mold. They may occur at specific temperatures, moisture levels, and nutrient availability conditions both before and after crops are harvested. Contamination of grains with aflat ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Optimize sow performance through efficient mineral supplementation
For many decades the focus for sow farmers has been on increasing the number of total weaned piglets per sow per year. This number has been steadily rising, with more and more farmers now reaching the impressive number of 35 piglets weaned ...
Monday, May 30, 2016
Antibiotics in Aquaculture - Use, Abuse and Alternatives
The aim of this chapter is to present information about current knowledge regarding antibiotic use in aquaculture systems. This will include basic information, for example, mechanisms of action and resistance, the role of antibiotics in dis ...
Friday, May 27, 2016
Review on mycotoxin issues in ruminants: occurrence in forages, effects of mycotoxin ingestion on health status and animal performance and practical strategies to counteract their negative effects
Ruminant diets include cereals, protein feeds, their by-products as well as hay and grass, grass/legume, whole-crop maize, small grain or sorghum silages. Furthermore, ruminants are annually or seasonally fed with grazed forage in many part ...
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Effects of NSP enzyme on the growth performance and nutrient digestibility using Simulative Digestion System of ducks fed wheat-miscellaneous meal diets
This experiment was conducted to investigate effects of NSP enzyme on duck growth performance as well as duck diet DM and CP digestibility using Simulative Digestion System. 720 one-day old cherry valley ducks were random assigned into 4 tr ...
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