To examine variation in diet and daily ration of the bonnethead shark, Sphyrna tiburo (Linnaeus 1758), animals were collected from three areas in the eastern Gulf of Mexico: northwest Florida (*29 400N, 85 130W), Tampa Bay near Anclote Key (*28 100N, 82 42.50W), and Florida Bay (*24 500N, 80 480W) from March through September, 1998–2000. In each area, diet was assessed by life stage (young-of-t...

Voluntary Feed Intake (VFI) and Average Daily Gain (ADG) of three rabbit breeds fed on pigeon pea (PP), cowpea (CoP) soybean (SB) as sources protein for growing rabbits were determined. Flemish Giant (FG), California Black (CB) New Zealand White (NZW)) (Glycine max), (Cajunus cajan) (Vigna unguiculata) in the ration. Eighteen weaned at six weeks age used each breed (a total 54 rabbits) out whic...

This study investigated the combined effects of feeding ration and cheliped autotomy on intermolt duration, molting success, molt increments in size weight, ecdysteroid receptor gene (SpEcR) expression early juvenile mud crab Scylla paramamosain. Newly molted second stage crabs (C2) were subjected to four conditions; optimal, suboptimal (1/2 optimal), low (1/4 optimal) starvation, (intact vs. a...

The study examined the growth performance of pigs offered liquid feed or dry feed on either a restricted or an ad libitum basis, and whether their growth performance was further influenced by the water-to-feed ratio. The study was split into two parts to enable unrestricted (trial 1; n = 64) and restricted (trial 2; n = 48) feeding to be compared. Male pigs were randomly allocated to six dietar...

The experiment was designed and conducted to evaluate the effect of methionine, betaine and choline in the broiler chicks given low methionine starter ration. Day old broiler chicks (n=250), were randomly divided into five treatment groups (n=5) with five replicates of ten chicks. A low methionine (LM) starter ration was formulated and the treatment groups were (A) LM supplemented with methioni...

This study aimed to compare local dairy farmer ration formula with national research council in producing higher feed efficiency and milk production. This study had two stages. The first stage was in vitro study of dairy farmer rations which have different raw materials (R3, R4, and R5) with NRC based ration (R2) and Demo Farm ration (R1). The variables measured in this stage were proximate com...

Primary data were generated from field surveys conducted with the aid of questionnaires, personal interviews, field measurements and conversation between May and August, 2005 on the feeding management practices of 90 smaller holder turkey farmers in Imo State. All of the farmers fed their turkeys with commercial chicken feeds. Fifty (50.00%) of the farmers used chicken layer rations for their b...