Consumers have become more concerned with the production of food, quality of the meat and animal welfare. Conventional production with fast-growing breed has been the only production form of broiler chicken. However, ...

Energy is needed for the poultry in order to provide growth, egg production at a high level to allow maximal economic return for the production unit. In diet formulation, fat is added to increase palatability, increase ...

Starch is a quantitatively most important source of energy in broiler chicken diets. Diets may contain up to 50% starch on a dry matter basis. Despite high starch contents in the diet, broiler chickens can utilize a variety ...

This thesis work intends to give a general insight into commercial broiler pellets' physical quality and discuss the differences from a scientific point of view. The samples were delivered to the Norwegian University of ...

Faba bean seed is a good source of crude protein (CP) (293.06 g/kg DM), however soybean meal (SBM) is the dominant protein source in broiler chicken diets. With air classification technique, faba bean seeds can separate ...

An experiment was conducted to study the effect of feeding the diet with whole wheat with and without grit on broiler performance and digestive characteristics. The trial consisted of four treatments: one control and three ...

I dagens samfunn er mangel på vitamin D et problem. Dette problemet kan løses ved å endre innholdet av vitamin D i ulike matvarer. For verpehøns kan vitamin D tilføres via fôret, men det er satt en maksimumsgrense på lovlig ...

The over-exploitation of phosphorus (P) reservoir is becoming one of the major concerns in poultry industry due to the limited stock of P. Secretion of endogenous phytase in monogastric animals is insufficient to break ...