ketotifen is a potent, safe and long acting antihistamine that is effective in treatment of asthma and its use is believed to causes weight gain and drowsiness. cyproheptadine, an antihistamine, has anticholinergic and antiserotonergic effects, and causes increases of the appetite and weight gain. in this study the effects of different doses of ketotifen and/or cyproheptadine on the appetite an...

SUMMARY Estimates of variance components for birth weight, weaning weight and average daily gain were obtained comparing different animal and sire univariate models for an important local beef cattle breed. Problems encountered with models involving maternal effects were discussed. Direct and maternal heritabilities were respectively 0.32 and 0.13 for birth weight, 0.60 and 0.30 for weaning wei...

digestibility coefficient of whole cottonseed was determined by in vivo method and total collection feces. the whole cottonseed degradability was determined by nylon bag method. a number of 12 holstein bulls were used in a complete randomized design. the rations contained zero (control), seven, 14 and 21 percentages of whole cottonseed. during the experimental period, daily gain, dry matter int...

Abstract Nutrient overload, deficiency, or imbalance are fundamental issues that frequently arises in breeder cows. Malnutrition cattle can cause delayed puberty, an increased risk of pregnancy failure, and infertility. This study aimed to determine the effect nutrient improvement mineral premix supplementation on body weight, average daily gain, blood metabolite profile repeat cattle. Sixteen ...

Association of genetic polymorphism in the calpastatin (CAST) gene with average daily gain was examined in Iranian purebred Kurdi sheep. The genotypes for CAST were determined by the PCR-SSCP method. Blood samples were collected from 84 purebred Kurdi sheep belonging to the Kurdi Breeding Station located in the Khorasan province, north-east of Iran. Extraction of genomic DNA was based on the Gu...

Sixty days feeding experiment was conducted on grass carp fry fed isocaloric diets with variable protein levels in order to evaluate its growth response. Different diet ingredients were analyzed for % age protein, % age fat, % age ash, % fiber, % age moisture contents and energy. Five isoenergetic (17.91 ± 0.02 Kg MJ ) and isolipidic (8.56 ± 0.09 g) diets with varying protein levels PL1 (20%), ...