The supply of animal feed is one the main concerns producers in aquaculture industry, including aspects such as cost fish flour and its nutritional balance. aim this study was preparation a pellet-type food using powdered Spirulina sp. cultivated protein source supplemented with agro-industrial waste, evaluation to comply necessary parameters for elaboration extruded pellets. photobioreactor at...

The effects of palm oil and water temperature on preparation bioactive edible film (BEF) in total mixed ration (TMR) pellets were investigated, with highlight hardness microbial composition. research followed a completely randomized design (CRD) factorial 4 × 3 replications. first factor was crude (M) levels 0%, 1.5%, 3%, 4.5%, while the second (T) as solvent for tapioca flour, namely 30 °C, 35...

Applying analgesics to feed is a potentially easy method of providing pain-relief to sheep and lambs that undergo painful husbandry procedures. To be effective, the medicated feed needs to be readily accepted by sheep and its consumption needs to result in therapeutic concentrations of the drug. In the present experiment, pelleted feed was supplemented with flunixin (4.0 mg/kg live weight) and ...

The study was designed experimentally using a Completely Randomized Design, five treatments were repeated three times included the use of carboxymethyl cellulose as control much 5%, and treatment feed additives seaweed 75%, 10% 12.5%. parameters measured efficiency, rupture speed test, sink durability stability test moisture content Analysis Variance continued with Duncan's Multiple Distance Te...

Molecular methods allow noninvasive assessment of vertebrate predator-prey systems at high taxonomic resolution by examining dietary samples such as faeces and pellets. To facilitate the interpretation of field-derived data, feeding trials, investigating the impacts of biological, methodological and environmental factors on prey DNA detection, have been conducted. The effect of meal size, howev...

The dopamine and endocannabinoid neurotransmitter systems have been implicated in delay discounting, a measure of impulsive choice, and obesity. The current study was designed to determine the extent to which haloperidol and rimonabant affected delay discounting in rats fed standard-chow and high-fat diets. Sprague-Dawley rats were allowed to free-feed under a high-fat diet (4.73 kcal/g) or a s...

objective(s): this study evaluates the effect of substitution of microcrystalline cellulose (mcc) with ethylcellulose (ec) on mechanical and release characteristics of theophylline pellets. materials and methods: the effect of addition of ec was investigated on characteristics of pellets with varying drug content prepared by extrusion-spheronization. also the effect of type of granulating liqui...

In this study, we have examined the bacterial community composition of the laboratory cultured sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus gut microbiome and its culture environment using NextGen amplicon sequencing of the V4 segment of the 16S rRNA gene, and downstream bioinformatics tools. Overall, the gut and tank water was dominated by Proteobacteria, whereas the feed consisted of a co-occurrence of P...

An Iowa grain processor attempted to alter the typical 12-h preharvest fasting period by giving broilers cornstarch derivative pellets and water for 6 h followed by 6 h of no feed or water. After slaughter, plant food inspectors determined that livers from the treatment group were lighter in color than normal, and consequently a significant number of chicken carcasses were condemned for human c...