Animal Feed Technical Articles
Article published the April 9, 2021:
Description of Problem
The demand for livestock products is increasing due to growing human population (1). Poultry products particularly broiler meat has a great potential to meet this demand due to its low f...
Article published the April 9, 2021:
1. Introduction
Toxigenic fungi and mycotoxin occurrence varies between crops, as fungal species and strains differ in their ability to infect a particular plant host. Crop varieties also show different levels...
Article published the April 7, 2021:
INTRODUCTION
Seaweeds are the raw material for many industrial products like agar, alginates and carrageenan; also, they continue to be widely consumed as food and medicine in Asian countries.[1,2,3] Most edib...
Article published the April 7, 2021:
Introduction
The toxigenic fungi cause heavy losses in the in the yield, but the toxic poisoning of the grain is economically far more important. They provide food safety risk in human food supply and the same...
Article published the March 30, 2021:
Article published the March 22, 2021:
I. INTRODUCTION
Over the last few decades, laying hen performance potential has largely been improved by genetic selection: egg production increased from 11.8 to 21.0 kg eggs per hen housed, FCR reduced from 3...
Article published the March 18, 2021:
The Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) released a new report that found that U.S. domestic livestock and pets consumed nearly 284 million tons of safe, high quality and nutritious food in 2019....
Article published the March 18, 2021:
Article published the March 17, 2021:
What Is Preconditioning?
Preconditioning means to condition or prepare a material before it is processed further. In the context of extrusion processes, preconditioning occurs just prior to extrusion i...
Article published the March 17, 2021:
Overview – What Is Extrusion?
The word extrusion means shaping a material or a blend of materials that can be plasticized (able to be melted and become fluid-like), and is pumpable by for...