Animal Feed Technical Articles
Article published the December 14, 2017:
Introduction
The United States swine industry has suffered dramatic losses following the emergence of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in May 2013. The virus is a highly contagious and deadly coronavirus...
Article published the December 6, 2017:
Introduction
Choice feeding based on grain has been considered for economic and health reasons in poultry feeding (Forbes and Covasa, 1995; Erener et al., 2006; Amerah and Ravindran, 2008; Gabriel et al., 2008...
Article published the December 6, 2017:
Pelleting has been, and continues to be, a popular processing technique in feed manufacturing. In basic terms, pelleting converts a finely ground blend of ingredients into dense, free flowing agglomerates (pell...
Article published the December 1, 2017:
Article published the November 29, 2017:
Feed machinery mainly includes hammer mill, mixer, pellet mill, packaging scale and so on, we should reasonably arrange various models according to the actual needs of the whole set of production equipment, so ...
Article published the November 23, 2017:
Introduction
Current broiler growth rate is partly the result of an intense genetic selection;1 therefore, feeding is important to achieve the maximum productive expression. Success attained until now in this ...
Article published the November 23, 2017:
Forages make up 45 to 95 percent of the feed that dairy animals receive on a farm. We usually think in terms of just the lactating cows. It is more difficult to think in terms of the whole herd in terms of the ...
Article published the November 16, 2017:
1. Introduction
The maize ethanol industry continues to grow steadily in the United States, keeping in step with federal government directives for the inclusion of renewable fuels in the U.S. fuel supply. The ...
Article published the November 16, 2017:
Introduction
The serum proteins are no fixed rates in the normal case, but the birds subjected to a change in the environmental and health conditions lead to a change in the proportions of these proteins (Jain...
Article published the November 16, 2017:
Introduction
It is generally thought that as diets are ground to a smaller mean particle size, a linear improvement in nutrient utilization and pig performance will be observed. Research has demonstrated this ...