A freshwater plant, water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is commonly found in public waters Indonesia. Water often experiences blooming which causes negative impacts such as lowering oxygen levels, reducing the number of fish, increasing evapotranspiration, disrupting transportation, becoming habitat for disease vectors, and others. However, can be used an alternative raw material because it s...

A total of 96, 21-d-old, crossbred weanling pigs (average initial weight was 6.0 kg) were assigned to one of six treatments to investigate the effect of dietary protein on performance and immune function of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-challenged and unchallenged pigs. A control diet was formulated to contain 14.7 MJ of DE/kg, 14 g of CP/MJ of DE, and 7 g of lysine/100 g of CP. Die...

The effect of dietary supplementation of commercial probiotics Bifilac® on growth of rohu, Labeo rohita fingerlings were evaluated. Experimental diet (ED) was supplemented with Bifilac® (3g/kg diet). Reference diet (RD) was not supplemented with Bifilac®. The feeding trial was conducted using L. rohita fingerlings (5.30±0.01 g) for 60 days in triplicates. The groups D1 and D2 were fed daily wit...

Ruminants are known to harbour a vast and diverse microbial community that functions in utilizing the fibrous and starchy feedstuffs. The microbial fermentation of fibrous and starchy feed is carried out by different groups of microbiota, which function in synergistic mechanism. The exploration of the shift in carbohydrate utilizing microbial community with the change in diet will reveal the ef...

Four experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of diet and the administration of H2-antagonists in feed on gastric ulcer formation and performance of growing-finishing swine. Pigs receiving a finely ground diet (less than lmm) grew faster (.73 vs .68 kg/d, P less than .01) and had better feed utilization (3.47 vs 3.76, P less than .01) than pigs receiving a cracked corn-based diet. Inci...

Along with the fast genetic improvement, nutritional and environmental effects on poultry growth performance have made it necessary to develop growth models that have the flexibility to adapt to different genotypes and growing conditions. A mechanistic simulation model of energy and nutrient utilization in growing turkeys is presented herein. The model consists of simulating the average homeorh...

Quail litter (QL), a combination of accumulated quail manures, feathers, spilled feed and bedding materials, is a potential plant fertilizer, ruminant feed ingredient and other value-added applications. In general, utilization of this litter has been limited to within a few kilometers of quail farms, because it has low density. Pelleting is one possible way to enhance storage, transportation an...

An eight week feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the potential of Gliricidia maculata leaf meal as dietary protein source in the diet of Cirrhinus mrigala fingerlings. Four experimental diets were formulated to contain 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% G. maculata leaf meal (Diets 1 – 4) to partially replace other protein ingredients in the C. mrigala diet. The diet containing 0% leaf meal served as t...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects and interactions of dietary levels of corn oil (0 vs 6%) and dried whey (0 vs 25%) on performance of young pigs during a4-wk postweaning period. The first experiment, conducted in five replicates as a 2 • 2 factorial in a randomized block design, evaluated gain and feed intakes of 172 pigs weaned at 21 d of age. Pigs were bled at weekly int...