Mixed hybridisation trials involving Clarias gariepinus (CG), Heterobranchus longifilis (HL), and Heterobranchus bidorsalis (HB) were carried out with success using Ovulin as inducing agent. The crossing was followed by an early growth trial using post-yolk sac larvae that lasted ten days. Latency...

This study aimed to assess the effect of dietary tara (Tara spinosa (Feuillée ex Molina) Britton & Rose) hydrolysable tannins on performance and meat quality of finishing pigs. Twenty barrows (crossbred PIC × Piétrain; age: 125 ± 5 d; bodyweight: 60.8 ± 3.89 kg) were randomly assigned to two...

To investigate the usefulness of encapsulation technique in aquaculture feed, 11 weeks feeding experiment was designed to check in vivo comparative efficacy of G. candidum encapsulated with alginate (Alg) alone as well as in combination with starch (Alg-S) and xanthan (Alg-X) followed by coated...

This study evaluated the prebiotic potential of cello-oligosaccharides (COS) produced from birch (Betula pendula), an under-utilised lignocellulosic source from the forestry industry, on growth performance, mucosal immunity, gut microbiota composition, and antioxidant capacity of juvenile rainbow...

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary sodium propionate on growth performance, hepatic lipid deposition, and intestinal activity of digestive enzymes, inflammation, bacterial population, and antioxidant capacity in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss. The fish were fed diets...

Due to the wide usage of high-fat diets in aquaculture, improving the ability of fish to utilize high-fat diets is one of the important issues in the field of aquaculture nutrition. Studies in mammals have proven that increasing the number of adipocytes improves high-fat diet-induced metabolic...

Glucose is the main energy supplier for animals, and the metabolic dysfunction of glucose is closely related to the occurrence of metabolic diseases, including obesity and type II diabetes. The concentrations of some glucose metabolic intermediates, such as succinate, L-malic acid, α-ketoglutarate...

With the intensive production of livestock and poultry and the enhancement of people's health awareness, consumers are more and more concerned about the quality and nutritional value of livestock and poultry muscle, such as shear force, drip loss, cooking loss, pH value, intramuscular fat content....

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the growth performance of hybrids from a diallel 3 × 3 crossing of Oreochromis karongae, O. shiranus, and O. mossambicus. Fingerlings of 3.47 ± 0.04 g were stocked at 5 fish m^-2 in nine treatments replicated twice. Final weights were significantly different...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the different feeding frequencies on the performance, hematology profile, daily rhythms of glucose and activities digestive enzymes for juvenile Lophiosilurus alexandri. Feeding frequency did not affect survival, final weight, daily weight gain (P >...