Background: Maggot meal, popularly magmeal is a core product consisting of dried defatted larvae that ground into high protein meal. It potential alternative for fish replacement in the diet quails. Methods: A study on 240 Japanese quail birds from day old to six week age was conducted at Poultry Research Station, Madhavaram Milk Colony, Chennai with supplementation during year 2015-16. The wer...

A total of 63 beef offal samples (beef liver = 16; beef lung = 14; beef intestine = 9; beef tripe = 15; beef spleen = 9) from three wet markets (A, B, and C) in Selangor, Malaysia were examined for the prevalence and microbial load of Listeria monocytogenes. A combination of the most probable number and polymerase chain reaction (MPN-PCR) method was employed in this study. It was found that L. ...

In Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), and also in other fish species, certain plant protein ingredients can increase fecal water content creating a diarrhea-like condition which may impair gut function and reduce fish growth. The present study aimed to strengthen understanding of the underlying mechanisms by observing effects of various alternative plant protein sources when replacing fish meal ...

Feathers are byproduct waste of poultry processing plant and produced in large amount. A small percentage of feather waste is steamed, chemically treated, ground, to form feather meal a dietary protein supplement for animals. Alternatively, keratin can be biodegraded by some Keratinolytic bacteria and in this study Keratinase producing bacteria and their Keratinolytic enzyme production was inve...

A set of prediction equations to estimate the nitrogen-corrected apparent metabolizable energy (AMEn) of individual ingredients and diets used in the poultry feed industry was evaluated. The AMEn values of three energy ingredients (maize, sorghum and defatted maize germ meal), four protein ingredients (soybean meal, maize gluten meal 60% crude protein, integral micronized soy and roasted whole ...

Vegetable proteins such as soybean meal, canola meal and lupins are widely used as the main protein source in poultry diets. However, there is only limited information on the nutritive or anti–nutritive effects of indigestible non–starch polysaccharides in vegetable proteins. This review discusses a number of experiments which investigated the effects of feed enzymes on the utilisation of non–s...

Primary and further processing of poultry is a multibillion dollar industry in the US. The majority of poultry raised and commercially processed in the US is composed of chickens, turkeys, and ducks, with more than 9 billion birds processed in 2010 (Table 24.1). Total retail product weight exceeded 58 billion pounds, with an estimated retail value of $100 billion. The general process of turning...