Intake and ruminal parameters of goats fed diets supplemented with vegetable oils

Comparison of ruminal lipid metabolism in dairy cows and goats fed diets supplemented with starch, plant oil, or fish oil.

Direct comparison of cow and goat performance and milk fatty acid responses to diets known to induce milk fat depression (MFD) in the bovine reveals relevant species-by-diet interactions in ruminal lipid metabolism. Thus, this study was conducted to infer potential mechanisms responsible for differences in the rumen microbial biohydrogenation (BH) due to diet and ruminant species. To meet this ...

Cholesterol Levels and Nutritional Composition of Commercial Layers Eggs Fed Diets with Different Vegetable Oils

1 Ph.D., post-doctoral studies at Department of Agro-industrial Management and Technology-FCA/UNESP-Botucatu e-mail: [email protected] 2 Professor, Department of Animal Production – FMVZ/ UNESP-Botucatu 3 Professor, Department of Agro-industrial Management and Technology FCA/ UNESP-Botucatu 4 Ph.D. student in Animal Science FMVZ/ UNESP-Botucatu 5 Department of Agro-industrial Managemen...

Performance and Egg Quality of Laying Hens Fed Diets Supplemented with Herbal Extracts and Flaxseed

In this experiment, the effects of fennel and thyme extracts with and without flaxseed were investigated on performance and egg quality of Leghorn-type laying hens (Hy-Line W-36). 200 laying hens from 26 to 38 weeks of age were assigned to five dietary treatments with five replications. The treatment groups were: 1) Control (a diet without any additives); 2) control diet plus fennel (40 mg/kg f...

Response of layers fed on diets dificient in protein and sulphur amino acids supplemented with lipid

Intake, digestibility, ruminal characteristics and rate of passage of orchardgrass diets fed to sheep.

Four orchardgrass diets ranging in cell wall content from 60 to 78% were fed to sheep, and relationships among intake, digestion, passage and ruminal measurements were determined. As cell wall concentration increased, dry matter intake, digestible energy intake, dry matter digestibility and excretion rate decreased, while cell wall intake rumen volume, rumen cell wall and retention time increas...