A 14-d trial was conducted to determine the effect of dietary protein concentration on performance and health in Pekin ducks during aflatoxicosis . The 4 dietary treatments were arranged in a 2 × 2 factorial with 2 CP concentration (20 and 24% on analyzed basis) with or without 0 .20 mg/kg AFB1 (0 .21 mg/kg analyzed) . Each diet was fed to 6 replicate cages per diet (6 ducks per cage) from 0 to...

Decreasing dietary N inputs into beef cattle feeding operations could potentially decrease environmental concerns relating to air and water quality. Previous studies with sheep suggest that oscillating dietary CP concentrations may improve N use efficiency and thereby decrease dietary N requirements. Therefore, two studies were conducted to determine the effects of oscillating dietary CP concen...

one experiment was conducted with a total of 2000 broiler breeders (lohman strain) at 74 weeks of age, which lasted for 10 weeks. birds were randomly assigned to two dietary treatments varying in dietary crude protein (cp). the reduced-cp diet had dietary cp level approximately 1.5 percentage units lower than the control (15.5 vs 14.0%). by supplementing 0.13 and 0.1% of dl-methionine and l-hcl...

the aim of this study was to compare the effects of two levels of crude protein using poultry by-product meals (pbpm) fed during late gestation on the performance, blood metabolites, and colostrum composition of holstein dairy cows. sixteen multiparous cows 26±6 d before expected calving were assigned randomly to two treatments containing 1) 14% and 2) 16% crude protein. the cow’s bcs was 3.56 ...

Three experiments were conducted to determine the fifth-limiting amino acid for growing pigs in an 11% CP, corn-soybean meal diet. In each experiment, 36 gilts (initial weight 19.5, 21.9, and 21.0 kg, respectively) were penned individually and fed one of six diets in a randomized block design for 35 d. Diets containing 16, 12, and 11% CP were fed in each experiment. All 12 and 11% CP diets were...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to investigate the relationship between imbalances of plasma amino acids and pain in chronic pancreatitis (CP). METHODS Thirty patients with alcoholic CP in an exocrine-insufficient state were examined. We divided them between diet and control group. Diet group ingested 80 g/300 kcal of the elemental diet "Elental®". This diet of 300 kcal/day was administered for two mon...

the effect of different levels of zinc and copper organic supplements on performance, plasma copper plus zinc status, serum alkaline phosphatase (alp), ceruloplasmin (cp) activity as well as vitamin ¬a concentration was studied in 25 mehraban male lambs each of 5-6 months of age and 30/64±3/47kg of live weight. the following five dietary treatments were used: 1) control (base diet with no addit...

BACKGROUND Flavonoids are polyphenolic compounds of plant origin with antioxidant effects. Flavonoids inhibit LDL oxidation and reduce thrombotic tendency in vitro. Little is known about how cocoa powder and dark chocolate, rich sources of polyphenols, affect these cardiovascular disease risk factors. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the effects of a diet high in cocoa powder and dark chocolate (CP-DC ...