Animal feed is commonly formulated with vitamin and mineral premixes to supply the micronutrient requirements of animal. Premixes typically require carriers which act as a delivery system for micronutrients aid in uniformity, dilution, dispersibility across entire mix. However, little information available regarding how different might influence dispersion nutrients throughout premix. Therefore...

Negative impacts on the environment, bird well-being, and farm worker health indicate the need for abatement strategies for poultry litter NH(3) generation. Type of bedding affects many parameters related to poultry production including NH(3) losses. In a randomized complete block design, 3 trials compared the cumulative NH(3) volatilization for laboratory-prepared litter (4 bedding types mixed...

The decline in the availability of pine (Pinus taeda L.) bark (PB) supplies and increasing prices have caused concerns in the nursery industry. Research was conducted to evaluate the effect of parboiled rice (Oryza sativa L.) hulls (PBH) as a substrate amendment to PB-based container substrates on the growth of Spiraea ·bumalda L. ‘Anthony Waterer’ and to examine the changes in physical propert...

this experiment was carried out using 200 ross 308 broiler chickens in a completely randomized design with 5 treatments and 4 replicates. the true metabolisable energy of the barley hulls were determined using cecectomized roosters.the dry matter, true metabolisable energy, ash, ether extracts, crude protein, crude fiber, ndf, adf, ca and total p content of barely hulls were: 92%, 978 kcal/kg, ...

Methanolic extracts of rice hulls with or without far infrared (FIR) irradiation were sequentially fractionated with solvents (hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate, butanol, and water), and antioxidant activities of the fractions were analyzed for total phenol contents (TPC), 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical-scavenging capability, reducing power, and antioxidant potency. Yield of chlor...

Knowledge of mineral localization within rice grains is important for understanding the role of different elements in seed development, as well as for facilitating biofortification of seed micronutrients in order to enhance seeds' values in human diets. In this study, the concentrations of minerals in whole rice grains, hulls, brown rice, bran and polished rice were quantified by inductively co...