Fibre can interfere with digestibility of fat by accelerating intestinal passage or increasing chyme viscosity. Lecithin is an important emulsifier which improve digestion. The study aims to determine if fibre solubility may apparent true total tract (ATTD; TTTD) macronutrients and energy adding lecithin could digestibility. Stool quality was evaluated regarding inclusion. Eighteen adult dogs f...

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a traditional staple crop grown for its starchy fruit throughout Oceania. This study therefore investigated the effect of maturity and different drying methods on some rheological and physicochemical properties of reconstituted breadfruit flour (Artocarpus altilis) (amala). Freshly harvested breadfruits (mature and immature) were washed in clean water to remov...

The effect of the forage source on ruminal fermentation in vitro was investigated for fine (F) and coarse (C) milled diets, using a modified Hohenheim gas production test and a semi-continuous rumen simulation technique (Rusitec). It was hypothesised that the replacement of maize silage by grass silage might lead to associative effects and that interactions related to particle size variation co...

Five varieties of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) were analysed for their proximate composition, major mineral elements and carbohydrate fractions. Values crude protein ranged from 25.80% to 28.95% while the ether extract, fibre, total ash had following values: 1.83 - 2.37%, 3.06 4.48%, 5.80 7.10% 50.46 55.76% respectively. The average values phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, potassium sodium 0.400%, ...

Dietary supplementation with conventional linted cottonseed hulls (LCSH) is a common practice in livestock production all over the world. However, supplementation with mechanically delinted cottonseed hulls (DCSH) and cottonseed linter residue (CLR) is uncommon. Cottonseed by-products, including LCSH, DCSH and CLR, were assessed by chemical analysis, an in situ nylon bag technique, an in vitro ...

The objective of this thesis was to investigate digestibility and metabolism in Icelandic horses fed forage differing in stage of maturity/harvesting date and at two feeding levels. Additional aims were to compare digestibility and metabolic plasma profile in Icelandic and Standardbred horses. Finally, one aim was to estimate the digestible energy (DE) and digestible crude protein (DCP) require...

The electrochemical coating technique was used for the preparation of a polypyrrole coating on a stainless-steel wire, and applied as a fibre for solid phase microextraction (SPME). The polypyrrole fibre was employed for analyzing four volatile aliphatic amines (ethylamine, propylamine, butylamine and pentylamine) in water by headspace SPME using gas chromatography-flame ionization detection (G...

the scope for using sunflower cake in ration formulation was tested in 6 horses employed for equine tourism. three experimental diets providing the same amount of proteins and energy as the control diet were formulated using rising doses of sunflower cake (sd3: 0.3 kg; sd6: 0.6 kg and sd10: 1.0 kg). digestibility evaluation using internal markers showed that rising sunflower cake doses reduced ...

composites provide design flexibility because many of them can be moulded into complex shapes.  carbon fibre-reinforced epoxy composites exhibit excellent fatigue tolerance with high specific strength and stiffness. these properties led to their numerous advanced applications ranging from military and civil aircraft structures to consumer products. the modelling of beams undergoing arbitrarily ...

The study was carried out to evaluate the forage quality of maize and sugargraze as influenced by different potassium management practices. experiment laid in split-plot design which two fodder crops, viz. sugargraze, were taken main plot, regimes a subplot. Results revealed that parameters Dry matter, crude protein, ether extract, ash content, neutral detergent fibre, acid lignin significantly...