Enviromental and economic impact of the use of swine waste on beef catle feeding program. Swine waste can be used as feed for beef cattle on feedlot. Manual and mechanical methods are the two ways to collect this product. ...

La ternera siempre ha requerido cuidado y atención especial para que pueda sobrevivir desde el nacimiento al destete y más allá. Desde el punto de vista nutricional, establecer los requerimientos proteicos de la ternera ...

Studies on the use of palm fats and mixtures of fats and oils in poultry nutrition. The main f actors that affect the digestibility and metabolizable energy content of fats for poultry are their contents  of saturated fatty ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fiber in Dairy Cattle Nutrition. A review Fiber or cell wall is essential in dairy cattle nutrition as well as in ruminants in general. This nutritional fraction consists of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, lignified ...

Energy nutrition of dairy cattle. A review. Energy is a subtle term and is defined as the capacity for doing a work. In dairy cattle nutrition, feeds have that capacity and the work is the maintenance of the cow, milk ...

Hypomagnesemia. A metabolic imbalance underestimated in dairy herds in Costa Rica. A review. Hypomagnesemia is a metabolic disorder characterized by a reduction in blood and cerebrospinal fluids magnesium levels, affecting ...