ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the digestibility of cashew bagasse bran as well as the performance of swine fed diets with different levels of inclusion of this by-product and their economic viability. In the digestibility trial, ten crossbred barrows weighing 60±6.86 kg were housed in metabolic cages. Five received standard feed and five received test feed with 300 g kg−1 cashew bagasse bran included. For the performance and economic viability study, forty crossbred pigs weighing 60±5.24 […]

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of substitution level of soybean meal protein by coconut meal protein in rations with cashew nut meal on the performance of broilers. It was used 325 male broiler chicks at one day of age, distributed into complete random designs with five treatments and five repetitions of 13 birds. It was tested the levels of 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20% of substitution of soybean meal protein by coconut meal protein […]

The objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of different crude fiber and soybean oil levels in diets for Tilapia Nile. Twenty-four circular fishbowls of 250 liters, with an individual system of water replenishment and heating, were used. The stocking rate was of seven fishes/fishbowl, totalizing 168 fishes, with average initial weight of 6.41±0.05 g. Weight gain, apparent feed:gain ratio, specific growing rate and protein efficiency rate were evaluated. The chemical composition and carcass yield, eviscerated carcass and […]

The objective of this study was to evaluate, in purified diets, the effects of different levels of crude fiber on the apparent digestibility and gastrointestinal transit rate in Nile Tilapia. Five circular fishbowls (250 L) with a closed system of water filtering, replenishment and heat for feeding and five digestibility fishbowls with individual filtering replenishment and heat system were used. Thirty-two fishes, averaging initial weight of 30.65 ± 0.50 were used. A completely randomized design with five levels of crude […]

Experiments were carried out to determine the digestibility (Experiment 1) and the effect of the inclusion of cassava leaf meal (CLM) with and without the addition of multi-enzyme complexes (MEC) in male broiler diets (Experiment 2) of the Hubbard strain. The MECs used were made up of Energex (b-glucanase, pectinase, hemicellulose) and Bio-Feed Alpha (b-glucanase, amylase). In Experiment 1, birds with 21 days of age were used, with the level of inclusion of 0 – 41.67% of CLM to determine […]