Browsing Animal and Wildlife Sciences by Subject "Feed conversion ratio"

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Dietary protein and energy requirements of Venda village chickens

Raphulu, Thomas; Jansen van Rensburg, Christine (Kassel University Press, 2018-06-27)

The objective of this study was to determine the dietary protein and apparent metabolisable energy (AME) requirements of local chickens. Freshly laid eggs of scavenging chickens collected in rural villages were hatched ...
Residual feed intake as selection tool in South African Bonsmara cattle

Steyn, Yvette; Van Marle-Koster, Este; Theron, Helena E. (Elsevier, 2014-06)

In South African Bonsmara cattle, feed conversion ratio (FCR) is mostly used as a measure of feed efficiency in selection programs but has the disadvantage of being a ratio trait and unfavourably correlated to weight and ...
Responses of Black Neck ostrich chicks to L-carnitine dietary supplementation during the pre-starter growth period

Hajibabaei, Ali; Casey, Norman Henry (South African Society for Animal Science, 2012)

The objective was to determine the growth responses of Black Neck ostrich chicks to different dietary levels of L-carnitine in pre-starter diets. Thirty-two day-old ostrich chicks were randomly divided into four treatments ...

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