Essays about: "Feed Conversion Ratio"

Showing result 21 - 23 of 23 essays containing the words Feed Conversion Ratio.

  1. 21. Effect of taro (Colocasia esculenta)foliage on the performance of growing common ducks

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

    Author : Nguyen Tuyet Giang; [2010]
    Keywords : ducks; growth; taro foliage;

    Abstract : Two on-farm experiments were carried out in An Giang Province, Vietnam, to investigate the effect of diets of rice bran with taro (Colocasia esculenta) foliage on the growth performance of common ducks. The first experiment was on chopped fresh taro leaves supplemented to a basal diet, which included rice bran, broken rice and soybean meal, to determine the intake level, the growth performance and carcass traits of crossbred common ducks. READ MORE

  2. 22. Influence of chicory feeding on performance and gut development in broilers

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

    Author : Haoyu Liu; [2008]
    Keywords : chicory; dietary fibre; inulin; prebiotic; gut development; histology index;

    Abstract : Chicory is a fibre-rich plant with potential prebiotic capacity. In the present investigation, day-old broilers were fed in 27 days with eight different experimental diets. Different harvests time and levels of chicory and inclusion of inulin were tested of their influence on broiler performance. READ MORE

  3. 23. Hemp seed cake fed to broilers

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

    Author : Robin Kalmendal; [2008]
    Keywords : broiler; nutrition; digestibility; AME; hemp; Cannabis sativa; protein; methionine; organic; feed;

    Abstract : The use of hemp seed cake (HSC) in a poultry nutritional context is described in this MSc thesis. It is well documented that HSC is distinguished by a high protein quality and a high proportion of unsaturated fatty acids. READ MORE