The present study was aimed at studying the effects of inclusion of pomegranate seed extract to fat-containing diets on nutrients digestibility, intestinal microflora and performance of broilers. A total of 320 one-day-old broiler chicks (Ross 308) were selected in a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial experiment in a completely randomized design with 4 replicates o...

There are considerable differences in the basic feeds used by the Australian Pig Industry relative to those used overseas. Maize and soyabean meal form the basis of the USA and Canadian feeding systems, and barley and soyabean meal the basis of the feeding systems in Western Europe. In Australia, wheat, barley and sorghum are the major cereals fed, and meat and bone meal, soyabean meal, cottons...

The current study was conducted to determine the possibility of replacing soybean meal (SBM) in finisher pig diet completely with hydrolyzed feather meal (FM) with blood by supplementing with appropriate amino acids (AA) based on standardized ileal digestible (SID) AA in FM. Corn– SBM, positive control (POS) diets were formulated to contain 6.6 and 5.2 g true ileal digestible (TID) Lys/kg to sa...

Widyaratne, G. P. and Zijlstra, R. T. 2007. Nutritional value of wheat and corn distiller’s dried grain with solubles: Digestibility and digestible contents of energy, amino acids and phosphorus, nutrient excretion and growth performance of grower-finisher pigs. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 87: 103–114. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the nutritional value of distiller’s dried grains with solu...

Three experiments were conducted to determine the digestible lysine requirement of starter (6 kg BW initially) and of grower (21 kg BW initially) pigs. Experiment 1 used 294 starter pigs and lasted 28 d; Exp. 2 used 182 grower pigs and lasted 35 d. Protein and total lysine contents of the basal corn-peanut meal diets were 20 and .8% for Exp. 1 and 16 and .54% for Exp. 2. Basal diets were fortif...

The United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Health Monitoring System 1995 National Swine Study was designed to estimate management, health and productivity parameters on pig operations in the United States. Sixteen major swine-producing states that accounted for nearly 91% of June 1, 1995 swine inventory and nearly three-fourths of United States swine producers were included i...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of dietary fermentable carbohydrates (FC = faecal digestible organic matter faecal digestible crude proteinfaecal digestible crude fat starch sugars) on the body composition and meat quality of pigs. A total of seventy two Stamboek hybrid pigs were housed in groups of six per pen (two pens with gilts and two with barrows per treatment). Th...

An experiment was carriedout to investigate the effect of dietary energy level levels on feed intake modern broiler chickens during growth period. A total 160 Ross chicks (mixed-sex) in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and replicates (10 birds) were used. The fed from 11 24 days age treatments, including grower diets 2800, 2900, 3000, 3100 kcal/kg ME constant nutrient ratios. Al...

Two experiments were conducted during a growout of male and female white pheasants to evaluate brooding space needed the first 6 wk and appropriate phase feeding strategies in the growing-finishing stages of growth. One-day-old chicks were placed into brooder pens with stocking rates of 150, 200 or 250 chicks/pen. Individual body weight and feed conversions for each pen were measured at 3 and 6...