Additives & feedstuffs in dairy nutrition Technical Articles
Article published the April 17, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
The interest in search for alternative/additional feed ingredients is of paramount importance in developing countries, mainly, because of the acute shortage of traditional feed materials. Introduc...
Article published the April 16, 2013:
INTRODUCTION
The available amount of green fodder through the summer season in Egypt is usually insufficient for animal feeding leading to increasing prices of diets. Therefore, attempts have been carried out ...
Article published the February 25, 2013:
Introduction
Genetic evolution of production animals and the increase of food demand have required high quality and digestibility products for animal feeds use. In Brazil, especially in Paraná State, so...
Article published the December 18, 2012:
INTRODUCTION
Sheep and goats are most productive when fed a balanced ration according to their nutrient needs. The needed nutrients should also be supplied at lowest possible cost. This can be done if produc...
Article published the December 18, 2012:
INTRODUCTION
Ruminants have unique ability to utilize the fibrous material through anaerobic fermentation (Kibria et al., 1991), therefore, sunflower seed meal (SFM) can be efficiently ...
Article published the December 14, 2012:
INTRODUCTION
Goats are an important source of meat and milk (Devendra and Burns, 1983). Recently, goats became an important aspect of animal production in Egypt. Increasing productivity of goats will contribut...
Article published the December 10, 2012:
INTRODUCTION
Goat is one of the most important livestock species in rural areas. In Sudan, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia researches showed that goats are reared for their meat, milk or both meat and milk...
Article published the November 30, 2012:
Introduction
Modern day intensive production systems, especially with high producing dairy cows, involve the feeding of high levels of concentrates in order to supply sufficient nutrients to support a high lev...
Article published the November 22, 2012:
Corn grain usually makes up 30 to 35% of the total ration dry matter of a typical Midwestern lactating cow diet. Therefore, changes in corn price can have a significant impact on total feed costs. Since 2006 co...
Article published the November 21, 2012:
Drought conditions will force dairy producers to look for alternative crops to feed as forages. Oilseed crops, such as soybeans, may be harvested for forage when the decision is made that drought conditions hav...