Effects of a supplemental fermented agro by-products diet on growth performance, blood characteristics and carcass traits were investigated in fattening pigs. The fermented diet mainly contained 38.0% brewer’s grain, 25.0% rice bran and 21.0% byproduct of king oyster mushrooms. The mixed ingredients were fermented at 40°C for 7 days and fed to crossbred barrow pigs for 62 days. Ninety pigs were...

Department of Poultry Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202, Bangladesh The present study was conducted to evaluate the chemical composition of three genotypes of scavenging ducklings (Muscovy, Pekin and Desi White) in coastal areas of Bangladesh. Three ducks from each genotype were slaughtered at 6, 10 and 14 week of age. The results indicated that dry matter yield was h...

Forty-eight pigs (barrows:gilts, 1:1) with an average initial weight of 9.4 kg were used in a 2 x 2 factorial experiment to determine the influence of dietary phytase (0 or 1,500 phytase units/kg) and zinc (0 or 100 mg/kg) supplementation of a corn-soybean meal diet on the utilization of P, Ca, Cu, Mg, Mn, and Zn. After a 21-d growth experiment, feed was withheld for 24 h and blood was collecte...

The present study was conducted to investigate a supplemental effect of magnesium hydrogen phosphate (MHP, MgHPO4) as an alternative phosphorus (P) source on growth and feed utilization of juvenile far eastern catfish (Silurus asotus) in comparison with three conventional P additives (monocalcium phosphate (MCP), dicalcium phosphate (DCP) and tricalcium phosphate [TCP]) as positive controls. A ...

Emissions of ammonia, as well as other gases and particulates, to the atmosphere are a growing concern of livestock producers, the general public, and regulators. The concentration and ruminal degradability of CP in beef cattle diets may affect urinary and fecal excretion of N and thus may affect ammonia emissions from beef cattle feed yards. To determine the effects of dietary CP concentration...

To investigate the effects of Kluyveromyces marxianus on immune responses, intestinal structure and microbiota in broilers, 840 1-d-old broiler chicks were randomly divided into seven groups (eight replicates) and were fed basal diets without or with 0.25, 0.50, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5 g/kg of K. marxianus (2.0×1010 CFU/g). Serum and intestine samples were collected at 21 d of age. The results s...

Artemia is an excellent live feed for newly hatched fish and crustaceans gained a unique position in the aquaculture system. Brine shrimp non-selective filter feeder, so different locally available source feeds should be evaluated as potential food their control mass culturing. The experiment was carried out to study effect of supplement on growth performance at Central Fisheries Promotion Cons...

Severn hundred pigs were used in experiments at eight stations to evaluate the efficacy of supplemental dietary choline during the starting, growing and finishing production phases. Increasing levels of choline chloride were added to corn-soy-lysine basal diets formulated to contain 15% crude protein (.95% lysine), 13% crude protein, (.75% lysine) and 11% crude protein (.55% lysine) for the sta...

Four experiments involving 163 pigs were conducted to determine the effects of iodine level in a corn-soybean meal diet on body weight gain, feed required per unit gain and thyroid status. Pigs fed the basal diet (.055 ppm iodine) with no supplemental iodine had lower plasma protein-bound-iodine levels, hypertrophied thyroids and trapped a greater amount of a 5 /~c dose of radioiodine (l st I) ...