Fats and oils are the major source of energy in pig diets, and–due to increasing costs, high-
performing genetic lines, and the diversion of high-quality lipids away from animal feed …

In the Dutch poultry meat production chain, first week mortality (FWM) of the chicks is an
important measure to quality and is therefore highly related to the price of the chicks that the …

The potential of lecithin and lysolecithin to improve lipid digestion and growth performance
was investigated in three experiments: 1. an in vitro model that mimics the intestinal …

A total of 480 day-old Cobb 500 broilers were used to investigate the effects of different
levels of digestible amino acids (DAA; 100%, 107% and 114% of Cobb recommendations) …

The aim of this research was to study the factors affecting hatchability, percentage of egg
weight loss during incubation, early embryonic mortality, and chick mortality in the first seven …

Threonine (Thr) may be a limiting amino acid for laying hens fed diets with lowered protein
level. An experiment was conducted to examine laying performance, and the intestinal …

1. Rice bran lysolecithin (RBL) was evaluated in broiler chicken diets. In the first experiment,
RBL was included in diet at 0, 0· 5, 2, 8 and 32 g/kg and fed to 250 broiler chickens from 0 to …

The response of digestive enzymes activities in the jejunal fluid of Peking ducks to dietary
ME and CP content was investigated. In experiment 1, jejunal digesta from 24 cannulated …

Objective The main objective of this study was to develop a pipeline to detect phenogenomic
introgression across different multivariety breeds and to validate such classification focusing …

Digestive enzymes produced by the pancreas and intestinal epithelium cooperate closely
during food hydrolysis. Therefore, activities of pancreatic and intestinal enzymes processing …