This is a compilation of 9 abstracts of papers presented during the American Academy of Veterinary Nutrition meeting. The topics include: the effect of physical rehabilitation on the body composition of chronically obese cats; adaptation of protein oxidation to protein intake in domestic cats; the...

Three feeding experiments were conducted to determine the feed intake, apparent digestibility and nitrogen retention of growing goats fed with Tithonia diversifolia and supplemented with rumen fermentable protein (cassava root chips and mulberry leaves) and bypass proteins (banana leaves, jackfruit ...

A comparison of conserving timothy/meadow fescue/meadow grass as silage or hay was conducted with Finnish Landrace ewes. Intake of hay (H), silage (S) and hay/silage (HS) and the performance of 30 Finnish Landrace ewes carrying twins, triplets and quadruplets and suckling either twin or triplet...

A 100-day experiment was carried out with 288 fingerlings of pacu, assigned to 36, 100-litre cement containers, 8 per unit, to evaluate the replacement of fish flour by soyabean meal and protein levels in the diets. During the experimental period, average water temperature was 28°C and dissolved...

The present study was designed to evaluate the influence of dietary protein and energy levels on growth and nutrient utilization of the red drum in the initial stages of growout culture. Four practical diets were formulated to contain 44, 40, 36 or 32% protein with practical energy to protein (E:P) ...

In an 8-week feeding trial, groups of 12 juvenile red drum (7.7 g initial weight) were maintained in 24 recirculating 110-litre aquaria and given diets containing 35, 40 or 45% CP with medium or high DE (35.2-46.4 kJ/g protein). In 6 treatments, fish were fed to satiety. Two additional treatments...

Eighty pullet guineafowls in groups of 20 were fed on grower rations containing 10, 13, 16 or 19% at a constant ME of 12.2 MJ/kg until they were 36 weeks old. Liveweight gain increased (P<0.05) with increase in protein content up to 16%. Though differences between 16 and 19% protein levels were...

The effect of 3 protein levels (77, 97 and 117 g DVE (true protein digested in the small intestine) per kg DM) and 2 energy levels (7.38 and 8.03 MJ NEF (NE for fattening) per kg DM) on the performance of Belgian White-blue [Belgian Blue] double-muscled finishing bulls and on the quality of their...

Six groups of 18 eels were given diets containing 300 g crude protein/kg dry matter and 18.5 MJ gross energy/kg dry matter ad libitum. The protein source in each diet was fish meal (control), meat meal (MM), sunflower meal (SFM), fish meal + MM (ratio 1:1, MM50), fish meal + SFM (ratio 1:1, SFM50), ...