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Effect of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis inclusion in turkey diets on growth performance.The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of a probiotic preparation containing spores of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis, added to feed, on growth performance of female turkeys reared until 84 days of age. A total of 300 day-old Hybrid Converter female turkeys were randomly...
Use of hop cones in growing beef cattle nutrition. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of the supplementation of bull diets with hop cones on growing bull performance, the concentrations of blood analytes, including liver enzymes. Twenty-four growing bulls of Slovene autochthonous Cika breed (BW 373 kg; age 329 days) were randomly allocated to 6 pens (4 animals/pen). Before the...
Effect of liquid acidifiers on rearing performance of suckling piglets.Crossbred piglets from 36 litters (12 litters each in control group C and in experimental groups E1 and E2) were investigated. From birth to weaning at 28 days of age, piglets from group E1 received drinking water with a 2% solution of lactic, formic and orthophosphoric acids, and those from group E2 a 0.05% solution of Baracid...
Effect of dietary arginine supplementation on body weight changes and productivity of sows.The objective of this study was to determine whether provision of additional arginine to pregnant and lactating sows could influence body weight changes in females during reproductive cycle as well as reproductive and rearing performance of the piglets. The study included 36 F1 crossbred sows (Polish Landrace...
The experiment was carried out on 200 ROSS 308 broiler chickens that were randomly assigned to 5 equal groups (K, D1, D2, D3, D4). The birds were fed the mixtures Starter (1–21 days of rearing) and Grower/Finisher (21–42 days) oiled with a mixture of soybean oil (3%) and linseed oil (3%). Two different grains represented the experimental factor, and were added to the mixtures in a 1:1 ratio, according...
As a part of the strategies identified during the Estates General of livestock farming, the Region of Piedmont has financed a project in order to verify the level of appreciation of medium heavy swine in the swine sector. The Region has involved the Department of Commodity Science of Turin University and APS Piemonte (pig farmers association) in carrying out a specified study [Aceto et al. 2011; Peira...
The effect was investigated of dietary selenate, ZnSO4, and α-tocopherol on fatty acid (FA) profile in the liver and longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle of 40 Polish Merino ram-lambs divided into the control (C) and experimental (E) group of 22 and 18 animals, respectively. Until week 8 of age all the lambs were maintained with their dams, then weaned, placed in individual straw-bedded pens and fattened...
Crossbred (F1) Booroola × Olkuska ewe-lambs were randomly assigned to control (C, n=8) and experimental (E, n=9) group with initial mean body weight of 7.6 and 7.3 kg, respectively, and fattened up to the mean live body weight of 24 kg. Lambs from both groups were fed ad lib. The concentrate mix containing 207 g crude protein and 12.5 MJ metabolizable energy per kg dry master of feed. During fattening...
Swine breeding is a branch of agriculture with high level of development and traditional in Belarus. The problem of basic directions in development of swine breeding is examined in the paper. In conclusion the main reserves for growth of the economic efficiency of pork production are found in strengthening of food reserve and using of complete feed mixture balanced on feed protein, increasing of leguminous...
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