This study reports the outcomes of daily (semi-urban areas) and weekly (remote rural regions) programs for moderately wasted children supplemented with locally produced ready-to-use foods in the form of fortified cereal/nut/legume-based biscuits on Nias Island, Indonesia (RUF-Nias biscuit). Thirty-four children in daily and twenty children in weekly programs aged ≥6 to <60 months with weight-fo...

abstract 900 rainbow trout (mean weight 25 gr) were obtained from a local fish farm in urmia city and after acclimatization for 10 days, the fish were randomly divided into four groups (with three replication) and fed for 8 weeks with 0 (control), 2/5, 5 and 10 g chitosan/kg feed, respectively. finally treatments were fed the control diet (without any chitosan) for another 3 weeks. body weight,...

Data from Feed Lot Fattening farms: operating under Livestock and Dairy Development Board; having at least one buffalo calf were collected for analyzing comparative performance of buffalo-calves for beef production. A total of 1408 animals present in 56 farms scattered over eight districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were studied. In order to control for the variables that could potentially affect th...

20 one-month-old sanjabi suckling lambs (ten males and ten females with initial liveweight of 13.4 ± 1.3 and 11.6 ± 0.9, respectively) were used to assess the effect of ad libitum creep mixture on dry mater intake, live weight gain and carcass characteristics. the lambs were blocked within sex according to their live weight and randomly allocated to one of two treatments, control (free suckling...

an experiment was conducted to determine the effect of different levels of potato replacing maizeseed on performance characteristicsand immunes system of broiler chicken in a completely randomized design. a total of 220 broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 5 treatment groups, with 4 replicates of 11 birds each. the chicks in the first group were fed basal diet (control), 2nd and 3rd groups ...

forty eight 8-month-old male goats were divided into three groups. in each group, eight goats were feedrestricted for 45, 60 or 75 days, and eight goats served as the control. restricted groups were fed with a maintenance ration, and the control goats were fed with a ration supporting 50 g of daily weight gain. at the end of restriction period, the restricted goats were offered the same ration ...

A Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccine (ResPiSure@,SmithKline Beecham Animal Health, Exton Pennsylvania) was tested for its effect on pig growth rate in a ISO-sow farrowto-ffnish unit in North Carolina using all-in-all-out flow in the farrowing and nursery. From October 1991 to December 1991, 625 nursery pigs from ffve weaned groups were sorted into pens by gender and similar weight, eartagged, and...