Two experiments (EXP) were carried out with 49 and 65 kg barrows (EXP 1 and 2, respectively) to determine digestible energy (DE) values of three sources of blood meals (EXP 1): conventional (CBM), flash dried (FDBM) and spray dried red blood cells (SDRBC), and of three poultry by-product meals (EXP 2) (PBM-10.1, PBM-12.7, and PBM-16.7% of ash content) by an alternative method to the replacement method (SbM). The method was based on the starch basal diet replacement with increasing levels […]

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of two levels of soybean hulls and three sources of protein on the total and partial rumen and intestinal digestion. Six Holstein-Zebu steers averaging twelve months of age and 229 kg BW were fistulated in the rumen and in the abomasum and distributed in a 6×6 Latin square and fed ad libitum individually. The consumption and the total and partial digestibility of the nutrients were evaluated. There was no effect of the […]

Performance, carcass characteristics and coefficients of apparent digestibility of Nile tilapia fingerlings (Oreochromis niloticus) fed diets with increasing levels of poultry by-product meal (PM) were evaluated. Three hundred fingerlings with average initial weight of 0.35±0.01 g were placed in thirty 120 L net ponds in five cement 1000 L tanks. Six levels of PM inclusion (0.00, 4.00, 8.00, 12.00, 16.00 and 20.00%) were used in the diets, in an experimental randomized blocks desing with six treatments and three replicates. An […]