Farm Animal Metabolism and Nutrition

are seen as ‘natural products’ rather than as chemical additives. Across the world, bacteria are developing resistance to anti- ...

Matching Enzyme Activity to Diet Composition Role of fibre-degrading enzymes Fibre in its various forms is a major cause of poor ...

relatively expensive. Plants store P in the form of phytic acid which cannot be broken down by monogastric animals unless there ...

reduced the gastrointestinal pH to an optimum which better suited the microbial phytase, allowing more P to be released. In summ ...

widely adopted feed enzyme technology. Annison (1997) suggests that feed enzymes have proved successful with broilers, for the f ...

and
-glucanase to barley-based poultry diets reduces the problem of sticky droppings (Broz and Frigg, 1986; Elwinger and Sarter ...

(two experiments); Roth Maier and Kirchgessner, 1995). The lack of response to enzyme supplementation with layers may be due to ...

Despite this two-pronged approach to digestion, some feed compounds are still not well utilized. Poor digestion of solid feed by ...

maize–soybean diet, to 1146 U, for a semi- purified soybean diet. Piglets given a maize–oats–soybean meal diet required only 380 ...

Plant feed sources are cheaper than fish meal but are also higher in fibre and anti- nutritive factors such as phytin, gossypol, ...

Enzyme Supplementation of Ruminant Diets Feed enzymes, although part of many bacteria-based silage starters, are not widely used ...

The research of both Nakashima and Orskov (1989) and Beauchemin et al. (1995) shows the potential value of pre- processing feed ...

xylanase activity improved the FCR of cattle given the barley diets but not of those given maize. Beauchemin and Rode (1996) mea ...

to improve digestive efficiency and/or growth rate or milk production by ruminant animals. Effect of Feed Enzymes on Diet Formul ...

recovered from young broilers after the enzyme had passed through the crop and proventriculus. The activity recovery percentage ...

et al. (1995) examined winter and spring
- glucan data from seven European countries in data (from nine papers) that covered a ...

Annison, G. (1991) Relationship between levels of soluble non starch polysaccharides and the apparent metabolizable energy of wh ...

Eeckhout, W., De Paepe, M. and De Paepe, M. (1994) Total phosphorus, phytate-phosphorus and phytase activity in plant feedstuffs ...

Lindemann, M.D., Cornelius, S.G., El Kandelgy, S.M., Moser, R.L. and Pettigrew, J.E. (1986) Effect of age, weaning and diet on d ...

Rerat, A., Fiszlewicz, M., Giusi, A. and Vaugelade, P. (1987) Influence of meal frequency on post- prandial variations in the pr ...