Diets fed to nonruminant animals are composed mainly of feed ingredients of plant origin. A
variety of antinutritional factors such as phytin, nonstarch polysaccharides, and protease …

In the past two decades, an intensive amount of research has been focused on the
development of alternatives to antibiotics to maintain swine health and performance. The …

Application of feed processing methods and use of exogenous feed additives in an effort to
improve nutrient digestibility of plant-based feed ingredients for swine has been studied for …

Phytases (myo-inositol hexakisphosphate phosphohydrolases) hydrolyze the phosphate
ester bonds of phytate-releasing phosphate and lower myo-inositol phosphates and/or myo …

The objective of this study was to investigate the morphological development of the small
intestine of African ostrich chicks and to examine the changes in the number of goblet cells …

Dietary supplementation of pig diets with exogenous enzymes has been suggested as a
strategy to increase nutrient digestibility and improve feed efficiency in grow-finisher pigs …

Phytases release inorganic phosphorus from phytic acid or its salts, which are the major
forms of organic phosphorus in plant-derived food and feed ingredients. These enzymes …

Nutrient digestibility in distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) is limited by physical
constraints such as particle size and by biochemical limitations such as phytate and fiber or …

Two experiments, each consisting of 2 trials, were conducted to investigate the effect of
feeding benzoic acid (BA) and turmeric meal (TM) individually or in combination (Exp. 1) or …

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effects of supplemental xylanases on
growth performance, coefficients of apparent ileal (CAID) and total tract (CATTD) digestibility …