Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the use of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) from modern ethanol plants in broiler diets. Experiment 1 was a 2 x 2 factorial experiment with diets containing 2 levels of DDGS (0 and 15%) and 2 diet densities (high and low). The high- and low-density diets were formulated to contain 22% CP and 3,050 kcal MEn/kg and 20% CP and 3,000 kcal MEn/k...

Nicholas, BUTA-B6 and BUTA-T2 strains (A, B, and C) were reared in a total of 24 floor pens (0.309m2/bird) and fed commercial diets until 19 wk of age. The basal feeding program (calculated analysis) included a pre-starter (0-3 wk; 28.3% CP; 1.51% Ca; 1.04% tP), starter (3-6 wk; 27.8% CP; 1.50% Ca; 1.03% tP), grower-I (6-9 wk; 24.5% CP; 1.48% Ca; 1.00% tP), grower-II (9-11 wk; 22.5% CP; 1.39% C...

effect of intermittent mash-pellet feeding programs on broilers performance, ascites susceptibility and economic yield was studied using 480 broilers in six treatments and five replicates of 16 chicks per pen were used in a completely randomized design. treatments including: 1. mash feed, 2. heated-mash feed, 3. mash feed in starter and grower and pellet feed in finisher, 4. mash feed in starte...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of exogenous enzymes on growth performance, ileal digestible energy (IDE) and apparent ileal digestibility of CP and amino acids (AA) in broiler chickens fed corn-soy diets formulated using 3 different sources of corn (corn 1, corn 2, and corn 3). One-day-old male broiler chicks (n = 3,600) were allocated to 15 dietary treatments as 5 treatmen...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation with green tea extract on growth performance, meat quality and oxidative stability longissimus thoracis et lumborum (LTL) muscle in growing-finishing pigs. A total 16 crossbred pigs, half females males, were randomly assigned 2 treatments. lasted 9 weeks included grower finisher periods. The experimental diets ea...

the effects of phytase and glycosidase supplementation to diets containing rice bran on broiler performance were investigated by using 200 day old (308 ross) broiler chicks in a completely randomized design with five treatments and four replicates. the five dietary treatments were as: corn-soybean meal based diet; diet containing rice bran; diet containing rice bran supplemented with natafous; ...

A recent study has shown that sorting and regrouping lightweight pigs with pigs of similar size does not improve their growth performance and carcass characteristics. M. C. Brumm and coworkers (2002) hypothesized that managing variation in the nursery and grower-finisher by sorting and regrouping lightweight pigs might improve their performance. Five experiment stations (in Illinois, Iowa, Mich...

Two experiments were conducted to assess effects of phase-feeding (PF) on broilers from 21 to 63 d. Experiment 1 evaluated the impact of PF on growth performance, whereas experiment 2 assessed the effects of PF on CP intake and nitrogen excretion. Diets were formulated using recommendations from NRC or linear regression equations. Two PF treatments were prepared: standard (PF) and low (PF10), i...

This research was conducted to compare the effects of two medicinal plants (peppermint and aloe vera) and antibiotic growth promoter on ileum microflora population and growth performance of broiler chickens. In this experiment, 375 one-day old male broiler chickens (Ross 308) were used on a completely randomized design with 5 dietary treatments which were replicated 5 times with 15 birds per re...

This study examined whether pre-treating palm kernel expeller (PKE) with exogenous enzyme would degrade its fiber content; thus improving its metabolizable energy (ME), growth performance, villus height and digesta viscosity in broiler chickens fed diets containing PKE. Our results showed that enzyme treatment decreased (p<0.05) hemicellulose and cellulose contents of PKE by 26.26 and 32.62%, r...