Showing papers in "Animal Feed Science and Technology in 2016"

TL;DR: In vivo studies on ruminants, pigs, poultry and rabbits reveal that some seaweeds have the potential to contribute to the protein and energy requirements of livestock, while others contain a number of bioactive compounds, which could be used as prebiotic for enhancing production and health status of both monogastric and ruminant livestock.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize recent advances of research in grape by-products including the phenolic composition, mechanism of intestinal and hepatic conjugation, plasma transport and elimination in bile and urine, and biological activities such as antioxidant and antimicrobial effect.

TL;DR: Two trials were carried out on European sea bass juveniles to evaluate the effects of dietary inclusion of a full-fat Tenebrio molitor (TM) larvae meal, showing that the highest inclusion level (TM50) led to a worsening of final body weight, weight gain, specific growth rate, and feeding rate if compared to the control diet.

TL;DR: In the distal intestine, saccharolytic fermentation is preferred and putrefaction accelerates only when utilisable carbohydrates are depleted, and all actions to reduce the amount of ileal bypass protein potentially also reduce production of toxic protein fermentation metabolites in the caecum.

TL;DR: Overall, inclusion of DF and reduction of CP in pig diets seems to be an effective nutritional strategy that may counteract the negative effects of protein fermentation in the pig gut by reducing ammonia concentration, shifting N excretion pathways in the gut and minimizing the negative impact of intensive pig production on the environment.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the principles of fat digestion and absorption in poultry is reviewed, along with factors influencing available energy content of supplemental fats, including age of the birds, degree of fat saturation, chain length, free fatty acids and fat inclusion level.

TL;DR: For successful usage of feed ingredients in diets feeding to pigs, it is required that knowledge about the chemical composition, the digestibility of energy and nutrients, and acceptable inclusion rates in diets fed to different categories of pigs is available.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the main factors that need to be considered when designing, conducting and interpreting IVFT experiments that investigate nutritional strategies to mitigate CH4 emission from ruminants.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of mycotoxin detoxification techniques and industrial applications can be found in this paper, where a clear understanding of such novel detoxification methods and development trends can be beneficial to the feed and livestock industry and will contribute to assuring pre- and post-harvest management and processing practices are in place that maximizes the consumers' safety and profits of livestock and related industries.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a mandatory NFD be included in individual studies to generate basal IAAend for correcting total ileal amino acid flow in determining SID of AA, and research is needed to investigate the standard diet formulation of NFD.

TL;DR: In this article, a study aimed at evaluation of the level of raw materials and products for animal nutrition contamination due to mycotoxins in Poland in 2011-2014 was presented.

TL;DR: The supplementation of diets with phytase has the potential to enhance tilapia growth without detrimental impacts on intestinal health.

TL;DR: The results indicate that SSF-SBM with yeast, S. cerevisiae, is an acceptable alternative plant protein source that can replace up to 50% of dietary FM protein in diets of Indian white shrimps, F. indicus PL which yields similar growth and production, and is as cost effective, as the control diet.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of including different forms of Moringa oleifera leaf meal in the diets of goats was evaluated with a quadruplicated 4 × 4 Latin square design for 88 days.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the positive influence of yeast supplementation in animal feed and some of the mechanisms by which these benefits are achieved have been discussed.

TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to briefly summarise the current state of the art in mono-component exogenous protease use in non-ruminants and to suggest mechanisms whereby the ‘extra-proteinaceous’ effects may be explained.

TL;DR: In this article, EO from oregano, rosemary, Ceylon cinnamon, cinnamon leaves, cinnamon bark, dill seeds, and eucalyptus were chemically characterized and then evaluated in vitro, both individually and in three-way EO combinations.

TL;DR: In conclusion, unexpectedly, the MIX treatment did not change the milk FA proportion, and this phenomenon could be attributed to a lack of effects of the both provided supplements.

TL;DR: Results of growth, nutrient utilization, gut histology and gut bacterial community indicate that SBM can be successfully incorporated up to a level of 300 g kg −1 with the inclusion of 150 g–1 of FM, without any deleterious effects on growth, protein utilization and gut health during the on-growing of sea bream.

TL;DR: OEO supplementation exhibited a significantly positive effect on the growth performance, carcass traits and intestinal health of broilers, indicating that OEO may be a promising alternative to antibiotic growth promoters.

TL;DR: In this article, the concentration of the bioactive compounds catalpol, aucubin, and acteoside in plantain cv. "Ceres Tonic" through two consecutive growing seasons (2011-2012 and 2012-2013).

TL;DR: The influence of feed form and particle size on the performance, coefficient of apparent ileal digestibility (CAID) of nutrients, apparent metabolisable energy (AME) and intestinal morphology in broiler starters fed maize-based diets was examined in this paper.

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of dietary yeast β-glucans supplementation on growth performances, gut morphology, intestinal C. perfringens population, endogenous antimicrobial peptide expression, and humoral immune response of broiler chickens infected with NE found it improved intestinal health of broilers challenged with necrotic enteritis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of pelleting, extrusion and expansion on the digestibility of poultry feed and found that the effect was mainly confined to lactobacilli and their main metabolite in the proximal part of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), particularly crop.

TL;DR: The current experiment showed that FPKC by P. polymyxa ATCC 842 could be fed to broiler chickens up to 15% in their rations without any adverse effect on nutrient digestibility and gut microflora.

TL;DR: From the results of this experiment, among all obtained times to adapt intake, fecal and digesta composition, and ruminal fermentation and microbial diversity, a 14-days adaptation period is recommended for changeover and crossover experiments with cattle fed tropical forage-based diets.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how dietary supplementation of nanosize zinc oxide affect zinc retention, egg production and eggshell quality, immune response and serum parameters of aged layers.

TL;DR: Investigation of the nutritional value of 5 cultivars of Vicia faba L. seeds found that extrusion improved the AME N values of raw faba bean seeds and the nutrient digestibility in broilers and negatively correlated with their content of oligosaccharides.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of feed supplementation with a phytogenic product (equal mixture of thymol plus carvacrol; T+C) on performance, nutrient retention, volatile fatty acid (VFA) profiles, cecum microbial ecosystem, serum parameters and characteristics of broilers fed on wheat-based diets with or without an NSP-degrading enzyme product (xylanase plus β-glucanase; E) from d 0 to 42.