Utilization of soy protein concentrate in piglet prestarted diets.A sirty four percent crude protein soy protein concentrate wasevaluated as a substitute protein for dry skimmed mitk in prestarter diets fed to piglets from ...

Utilization of poultry excreta in rumiant feeding. A study wasconducted to determine chemical composition of poultry escreta in Costa Rica, artd a/so is discurs the use and limitation of these products in ruminant f eeding. ...

Arachis pintoi / grass mixtures: an alternative for sustainable land use in livestock systems. Arachis pintoi is a tropical legume adapted to medium/low fertility acid soils, grows well at elevations between 0 to 1800 ...

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue determinar la transferencia de inmunidad pasiva en terneras que consumieron calostro mediante dos métodos diferentes en diversas fincas lecheras ubicadas en la región Central ...

Farm and semi-industrial production of nutritional blocks. Due to the great interest among beef producers for improving productivity and reproductive performance, as well as facing the problems of feeding their livestock ...

Factors affecting milk solid content. The solid content of the milk is affected by a genetic and environmental factor, which include the age of the cow, environmental temperature, milking management, health of the cow and ...

Milk fever. A review. Milk fever is an imbalance in calcium metabolism affecting specially high producing dairy cows. lt is caused by a reduction in the capacity of hormonal receptors to activate the calcium homeostatic ...

Factors affecting baby pigs postweaning performance. Management postweaning is one of the most critical factor that affect future pig performance. Two main factors affecting the animal performance are the body weight at ...

Importance of chromium nutrition in dairy cattle. A review. Chromium (Cr) essentially has been recognized for animals and humans since the early 50s. Its major role is as a component of the Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) ...

Force molting of laying hens housed in littered floor. Results of field studies. Very little information is available on force molting of hen flocks housed in floor and litter facilities instead of cages. A field study was ...