This experiment was conducted to evaluate the chemical composition and amino acid (AA) digestibility of sunflower seed meal (SFSM) and to use this data to develop prediction equations for estimating AA digestibility for growing pigs. Ten SFSM were collected from five provinces in China. Twelve barrows (38.8±4.6 kg), fitted with ileal T-cannula were allotted into two 6×6 Latin square designs. Ea...

Agave sisalana Perrine (family: Agavaceae), popularly known as Sisal is a commercially used fibre yielding plant. This herbaceous plant occupies sixth place among fibre plants, representing 2% of the world’s production of plant fibre. Approximately 240.7 tonnes of sisal is globally produced. Sisal industry in India is largely unorganised. Sisal is mainly grown in arid and semi-arid regions acro...

I herby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. iii ABSTRACT Seeding is an important variable in controlling or directing the assembly of peptides. The presence of impurities, responsible for creating a ...

A practical approach to determine apparent faecal digestibility using privately owned dogs may be a useful tool in evaluating differences in nutrient digestibility between dogs with various life stages. The aim was to develop a simple method that would suit such studies using the whitening agent titanium oxide (TiO2) as an indigestible marker. Forty privately owned, healthy male and female dogs...

A practical approach to determine apparent faecal digestibility using privately owned dogs may be a useful tool in evaluating differences in nutrient digestibility between dogs with various life stages. The aim was to develop a simple method that would suit such studies using the whitening agent titanium oxide (TiO2) as an indigestible marker. Forty privately owned, healthy male and female dogs...

Groundnut and Melon husks (shell) were collected from the market side in Kaduna metropolis, Kaduna State and milled into powder for proximate and anti-nutritional analysis. The results of proximate analysis showed that groundnut shell contained moisture content, ash content, crude fibre, lipid, crude protein, carbohydrate, oxalate, phytate, cyanogenic glycosides and trypsin inhibitor are 8.0%, ...

A twelve-week feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effect of Blood-wild Sunflower Leaf Meal (BWSLM) mixture on the performance of cross-bred (New Zealand x Chinchilla) male rabbits aged between 6-9 weeks. Thirty-two rabbits were randomly allocated to four dietary treatments of 8 rabbits per treatment in a Complete Randomized Design experiment. The BWSLM was included at 0, 5, 10 and 15...

A field experiment to compare forage yield and quality of eight sorghum cultivars/genotypes namely JS-263, JS88, Hegari, F-9601, F-9603, F9706, F-9806 and F-9809 was conducted at the Agronomic Research Area, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad during the year 2008. Significant differences were observed among the genotypes for forage yield and quality. The variety F-9603 produced significantly...