It is traditional for people living in towns and cities to stroll through the public parks and feed the ducks and geese. It is widely believed that such activities are productive in that they offer nutrition to waterfowl, present entertainment for the family, and in today’s urbanizing society, provide an opportunity for people to interface with nature. However, supplemental feeding of wild wate...

Feeding fats to dairy cows has become increasingly popular primarily for two reasons: 1. Supplemental fat can be used to increase the energy concentration of diets for highproducing cows. During early lactation, highproducing cows cannot consume enough feed to meet their energy needs. Fats are fed to cows: • to prevent them from losing too much weight, • to shorten the time frame during which t...

Several criteria are used for determining the acceptability of whole cottonseed (WCS) for crushing including concentrations of moisture, oil, free fatty acids in the oil (FFA), and ammonia. Whole cottonseed that does not meet the minimum standard is typically sold as a feed ingredient. When tropical storms delay cotton harvest and the moisture remain elevated, concentrations of FFA increase. Fe...

honeybees like the other animal creatures require proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals vitamins and water for their maintenance, growth and reproduction. normally they obtain their nutritional requirements from flowers but there are times when there aren’t sufficient flowers within reach they become in need of supplemental feeding. some such nutritional substances as soybeans, glutens, yeast...

selenium is an essential trace mineral and has a profound impact on immune function, health and productive performance. an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary selenium in different levels on performance and humoral immunity in broiler chicks. male broiler chicks (arbor acres, 1-d old, n= 225) were randomly assigned to 3 treatment groups of 5 replicates each including 15 ...

The effects of a 12 wk F-strain Mycoplasma gallisepticum (FMG) inoculation and various dietary supplementation regimens on performance and egg characteristics in Hy-Line W36 hens between 22 and 52 wk were investigated. At 12 wk of age, 120 sham (control) and 120 FMG(treated) inoculated birds were randomly assigned to individual cages in one of two enclosed and isolated ends of a caged layer fac...

Sugarcane molasses is a widely used animal feed by-product, but is concentrated in S (approximately 1%, DM basis) and has been shown to reduce the Cu status of cattle. Dietary S may also antagonize Se; therefore, two 90-d studies were conducted with forage-fed, yearling steers (12 pens; 2 steers/pen for each study) to investigate the impact of molasses supplementation on measures of Se status. ...