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Over the past few years, the dairy industry has made it a priority to feed higher forage diets with a correct balance of amino acids and an accurate ratio of lysine to methionine. With this strategy, there also has been more attention on the amount of undegradeable protein (RUP) being fed.
“We are feeding more high forage diets than we ever had in the past,” said Gene Goenner, territory product representative for Alltech Wisconsin. “With this feeding...
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Why does addition of Tapioca Pellets in formulation tend to have negative effect on pelletability of the feed? ...
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I. INTRODUCTION Rapid assessment of the quality of feed ingredients is now crucial for the financial success of intensive livestock producers. A great deal is known about the nutrient requirements, factors determining feed intake and the negative impacts of anti-nutritional factors for all intensively reared livestock including poultry. Diets formulated for optimum performance and profitability need to meet, but not...
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Ingredients for food and feed products perform many functions, but above all, they must serve as sources of essential nutrients. Even though an ingredient may be used because it adds a certain color to a product, or because it helps to physically bind other ingredients together, food and feed products are ultimately vehicles for performance through nutrition. Nutrient quality is made up of two main measures of any ingredient – the total amount of an...
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I need someone who can help me formulate feed for my layers and boilers. Thanks ...
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What would be the least cost feed formulation for layer flocks? We have to select low price ingredients but how we could help farmers more? ...
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Feeding has been evolved to be an important tool to in feeding to support animal production. When the production enhancement was considered a task in animal industry balanced animal rations were developed. The ration consists of forages, grain, protein meals and other concentrate feeds. The above ration may contain elements required and not required by the animal. It was arduous to separate the not required elements which may require sophasticated process...
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Mingan Choct, CEO of the Poultry CRC, Australia, speaks about energy systems that are being used for assesing the energy content of poultry feed ingredients. ...
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Vilofoss is behind the DairyBench software which is an application that can help evaluate the effect of new initiatives in your herd.
It is often difficult to assess the effect of new initiatives on the farm as the production is also affected by a number of other external factors such as temperature changes and feed quality throughout the year and across seasons with the cows in lactation, etc. Overall, many...
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Introduction Nowadays in India, live chicken prices are too volatile. Also day by day raw material prices are increasing tremendously. To overcome these issues and to survive in the market, farmers and poultry producer need to produce their chicken at low cost. We have conducted field trials by using different conventional as well as non conventional items with different nutrient levels...
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I would like you to comment and provide valuable suggestion regarding following formulation designed for Hisex layers (During 85% laying):
Maize= 47 Kg
Rice Polish= 12 Kg
Soyabean Meal= 18 Kg
Sunflower Cake= 3 Kg
Sesame Cake= 4 Kg
Limestone = 8 Kg
DCP= 5 kg
Lysine = 120 gm
Methionine= 70 gram
Other additives = Toxin binder, Antibiotics (Colidox), Biocholine, Acidifier, Selmix, Vitamin Permix and Livertonics
I have got
ME= 2512 Kcal/kg
CP= 16.1%
Ca= 4.3%
P= 1.45%
Thanking...
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Can we use GMO corn in dairy rations? It is well known that cattle do not utilize GMO maize remains, or they utilize it very poorly. Can it be something in the maize or is it only in the remains? ...
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INTRODUCTION When attributional life cycle assessment (LCA) is used to calculate the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of corn ethanol the consequences of feeding by-products from ethanol production (DDGS) must be taken into account. Current LCA approaches assume that there are fixed ratios for substituting by-products for a few feed ingredients. This assumption is only partially correct due to the dynamics of the animal feeding industry. ...
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Introduction Dairy farmers might be over-feeding a large proportion of lactating cows when they feed the same ration to a large group of animals. Diets are normally formulated to provide enough nutrients to the most productive animals, which in turn gives extra nutrients to the less productive animals. Therefore, splitting lactating cows in smaller groups and offering group-specific feeding rations provides more precise...
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I. THE GEOMETRY OF NUTRITION
In GF models, individual animals, foods and their interactions are represented graphically in a geometric space defined by two or more food components (for a comprehensive review see Simpson and Raubenheimer, 2012). Foods are represented as vectors through nutrient space at angles determined by the balance of the component nutrients they contain (nutritional rails), and the animal's nutritional state as a...
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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. Introduction of saline agriculture production systems in salt affected regions has proved to be an effective way to save fresh water for human and animal consumption while the saline water could be used for animal feed...
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Thirty Awassi lambs were used (5-6 months of age) and26.02 Kgaverage body weight, they were randomly allocated into six groups. The animals were fed group feeding (3% of body weight) six ration of different sources (ground corn cobs, date stones or date pulp) which was supplemented with 2 kg of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) and 1kg Iraqi probiotic(Ip) as a pellets ration. Barley straw...
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Enzymes are now widely used in animal feed. Various key reasons justify their use. Firstly, enzymes inhibit the action of anti-nutritional factors in the feed, which have an adverse effect on both the animal's digestive system and health. Secondly, enzymes improve access to the nutrients in the feed. Lastly, enzymes compensate for the lack of natural enzymes capable of breaking chemical bonds as well as the lack of enzymes in the undeveloped...
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Challenges and opportunities facing the international feed/food industry have never been greater than those faced by these industries today. It has become apparent that anything less than a very proactive approach to addressing current challenges may not be sufficient. Current international events are leading feed companies to attempt to move from a traditional role as a ‘feed company’ to becoming an integral part of the ‘Food Supply Chain’. This is driven essentially by the fact that...
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It is an uncontested fact that feed nutrients are bio converted into animal products through the animal system. The conversion process depends on various factors. The genetic frame of the animal enables the conversion pragmatic; however the conversion efficiency of the feeds has a vital role in the process. Often it is alleged the fact that dairy cow is a poor converter of the feed nutrients to milk. The complex structure of digestive system in a cow causes...
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