an annual rate of 7 percent since 1986 with 371 million broilers produced in 1994. Broiler litter (mixture of poultry excreta, bedding material, wasted feed and feathers) is usually removed from the poultry houses on an annual basis. Because of its high nutrient content, poultry litter is usually applied to agricultural land as fertilizer with an economic value of $20 to $30/ton. Broiler litter...

this research was conducted to evaluate alteration of growth performance, nutrition, carcass and some serum biochemical parameters of common carp fed the diets supplemented by different levels of meal and alcoholic extract of alfalfa (medicago sativa). in this research, 300 fish (mean weight: 20.4 ± 0.19 g and mean length: 11.78 ± 0.64 cm) were fed by nine nutritional diets for 8 weeks. nutriti...

The objective of the study was to evaluate in broiler diets, feeding value corn germ meal (CGM) mixture at 50% and addition liquor (CL) without with carbohydrase enzymes (CH) fermentation for 24 hours. A trial CL + non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) h carried out. total 240 male Ross 708 broilers were used, from 6 50 days age fed soybean paste based diets (starter, grower finisher), 5, 10 20 % CG...

background: the present clinical trial study aims at investigating the effect of daily energy intake in 6 isocaloric meals in comparison with the current meal pattern (3 meals and 2 small snacks per day) on type 2 diabetes risk markers in diabetes during 3-month period. methods: eighty four type 2 diabetes patients were randomly divided into 6 isocaloric meal diet or a balanced diet (3 meals an...

in the present work we study the use of fourier transform near infrared spectroscopy (ftnirs)technique to analysis the calcium (ca), phosphorus (p) and copper (cu) contents offish meal. the regression methods employed were partial least squares (pls) and kernelpartial least squares (kpls). the results showed that the efficiency of kpls was better thanpls. as a whole, the application of ft-nirs ...