Fifty-four individually fed crossbred steers were fed dry-rolled corn (DRC) and steam-flaked corn (SFC) based diets with and without 35% wet distiller’s grains plus solubles (WDGS) derived from corn to determine impacts of corn processing method and WDGS inclusion on animal performance and carcass characteristics. No interactions were detected for corn processing method and WDGS inclusion (P ≥ ...

Objective: To determine the effect of surgical castration and immunocastration on productive parameters, carcass quality, as well physicochemical characteristics meat fattening pigs. Design/Metodology/Aproach: Ten male pigs York/Pietrain/Landrace breed with a body weight 25±5 kg were used per treatment. They housed in individual pens fed diets according to their physiological state. The variabl...

ABSTRACT: The study evaluated the effect of sex and slaughter weight on carcass traits non-carcass components 1,489 horses (739 geldings 750 females, classified into eight groups according to their weight). Data were analyzed under a completely randomized design. Geldings had higher (P < 0.05) hot yield (HCY) cold (CCY) than females; however, fat yellowness values (b*) greater in females. Sl...

An experiment evaluated the effects of six dietary inclusions of wet distillers grain plus solubles (WDGS) on feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of yearling steers, and also evaluated the energy value of WDGS relative to corn. Treatments consisted of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50% (DM basis) dietary inclusion of WDGS. Final BW, DMI, and ADG increased quadratically, while feed: gain dec...

In the present experiment, 320 one day old Ross 308 broiler chickens were used completely randomized design with 4 treatments, 4 replicates, and each replicate contained 20 broiler chickens. Experimental treatments include control, 0.5, 1, and 2% of Thymolina powder in chickens’ diet. Thymolina is an antibacterial powder drug which is made by composing 4 medicinal plants. A significant differen...

Twenty-seven lambs were used to investigate the effects of the inclusion of 4% hydrogenated palm oil (HPO) or sunflower oil (SFO) in the concentrate on animal performance, carcass and meat quality and fat characteristics and fatty acid composition. Animals (16.2±0.27kg initial weight) were fed concentrate (Control, HPO or SFO) and barley straw ad libitum and slaughtered at 25kg. SFO lambs tende...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of different energy intake on physical and chemical composition in body fractions, growth performance and meat characteristics of finishing barrows and gilts. A total of twenty six crossbred (Landrace× Yorkshire) consisting of 16 barrows and 13 gilts were used in this study. The animals were allocated by sex to two treatments to form a 2×2 fac...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of different levels of sesame meal (sm) on performance and carcass characteristics of japanese quail. one hundred sixty day-old japanese quail chick were equally distributed into 16 cage pens and reared form 10 to 42 days of age. the treatments consisted of sm0, sm50, sm100 and sm150. the diet for sm0 treatment had no sm (control), while those ...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of vitamin premix withdrawal from diets containing different energy levels on growth performance and carcass characteristics of broilers subjected to heat stress in a completely randomized design with 2×3 factorial arrangement containing, 2 levels of energy (low and high energy) and 3 levels of vitamin premix withdrawal (28, 35 and 42 days). ...

to evaluate the effects of wheat processing and dietary lipid sources on feedlot performance, carcass characteristics and fatty acids profile in meat of fattening calves, a number of 28 holstein male calves averaging in weight of 296±56kg were randomly allotted in four treatments (7 steers each). the study was conducted in a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement (two methods of wheat processing: steam fl...