The effect of feeding velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens L.) meal on the performance and lipid profile in broilers was investigated. Fourteen days old 200 broiler chicks were randomly allocated to five dietary treatments in a completely randomized design and feeding was continued for four weeks. Maize and soybean meal based control feed, and four test diets produced from the control feed by incorpora...

This investigation was conducted in order to investigate the efficacy of the detoxifying agent Mycofix® Plus (MP) in the prevention and/or alleviation in vivo adverse effects of T-2 toxin in broilers. In addition, the adsorbing potential of MP was estimated in vitro. Mean degradation levels of T-2 toxin with MP in vitro, as measured by HPTLC, varied from 26.06 to 31.02 % and the adsorption abil...

At hatch, 360 one-d old Cobb500 male broilers were placed in battery cages to determine the effect of soybean meal (SBM) from different Midwest varieties on growth performance broilers. There 6 per cage and 15 replicates treatment. Dietary treatments cons0isted 1 4 sources varying quality determined by crude protein (CP) content processed into SBM. Two consisted soybeans a similar region either...

Three floor pen experiments (Exp) were conducted to evaluate low nonphytin P (NPP) concentrations and the NPP sparing effect of phytase (PHY) and 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25D) on bone mineralization, bone breaking during commercial processing, litter P, and water-soluble P (WSP) concentrations. Tested treatments (TRT) were control, National Research Council NPP; University of Maryland (UMD) N...

A high-fat diet has been recognized as an important risk factor of obesity, with variable impacts of different fatty acid compositions on the physiological process. To understand the effects of a high-margarine/lard diet, which is a major source of trans fatty acids (TFAs)/ saturated fatty acids (SFAs), elaidic acid as a biomarker of margarine intake was used to screen affected adipokines on ma...

Two experiments were conducted to examine the impact of source, urea (U) or Optigen II (OP), and level of dietary NPN on performance (Exp.1) and N balance (Exp. 2) of growing cattle. Sixty Angus crossbred steers (initial BW = 353 ± 13.9 kg) were used to evaluate performance, and fed 1 of 3 steam-flaked corn based diets: U (U(1.2), 1.2% NPN), OP (OP(1.3), 1.3% NPN), or OP without cottonseed meal...

Octacosanol, which has prominent physiological activities and functions, has been recognized as a potential growth promoter in animals. A total of 392 1-d-old male Arbor Acres broiler chicks with similar body weight were randomly distributed into four dietary groups of seven replicates with 14 birds each supplemented with 0, 12, 24, or 36 mg octacosanol (extracted from rice bran, purity >92%)/k...

Obesity results from positive energy balance and, perhaps, abnormalities in lipid and glycogen metabolism. The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences in lipogenesis, retention of dietary fat, and/or glycogenesis influenced susceptibility to dietary obesity. After 1 wk of free access to a high-fat diet (HFD; 45% fat by energy) rats were separated on the basis of 1 wk body wei...