Effect of in ovo feeding of probiotic, prebiotic and synbiotic to Broiler embryos on growth performance, Mucin-2 gene expression and gut colonization of microbiota by SURVASE SWAPNIL, P KANAGARAJU, G SRINIVASAN, K KUMANAN, S RATHNAPRABA

“…Birds were reared under deep litter system and fed with experimental diet ad lib. In ovo feeding of Lactobacillus acidophilus, MOS either separately or in combination significantly improved hatch weight, fifth week body weight and gain. …”
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Effect of urea‐molasses‐treated highland bamboo leaves supplementation on lactating crossbred dairy cows nutrient utilization, body weight, milk yield and its composition and econo... by Semahegn Tirusew, Yeshambel Mekuriaw, Abule Ebro, Adolfo Alvarez Aranguiz, Jan van derLee

“…Three dietary treatments, namely, 6 h grazing (control) + concentrate (T1), control + UMTHBL ad lib (T2), control + untreated BL adlib (T3) with three replications were used. …”
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Effect of varying levels of bypass fat on digestibilities of nutrients and balances of N, P and Ca in lactating Jaffrabadi buffaloes by H H SAVSANI, K S MURTHY, A R BHADANIYA, V A KALARIA, S N GHODASARA, S S PATIL

“…Experimental buffaloes were offered commercial concentrate mixture and cotton seed cake in equal proportion (50:50) to fulfil the protein requirements as per ICAR (1998) along with the basal diet of 10 kg seasonal green and mature pasture grass hay ad lib. Commercial bypass fat was provided to all experimental buffaloes at the rate of 150g per animal for first 15 days prior to parturition and at the rate of 0, 10g, 20g and 30g /kg milk yield in T1, T2, T3 and T4 groups, respectively post partum. …”
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27558 Obeticholic acid (OCALIVA ®) protects against 2,8-dihydroxyadenine nephropathy in mice by Bryce Jones, Carlos Benitez, Idalia Cruz, Komuraiah Myakala, Xiaoxin Wang, Andrew Libby, Emma Rowland, Ryan Kurtz, Avi Rosenberg, Moshe Levi

“…METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Male and female C57BL/6J mice (12 weeks of age) were fed chow (Research Diets D19120401i) or chow admixed with adenine (0.2% w/w) ad lib for either 3.5 or 7 weeks. Mice were treated with either vehicle (corn oil) or obeticholic acid (10 mg/kg BW) by gavage 5 days per week. …”
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Eicosapentaenoic acid and oxypurinol in the treatment of muscle wasting in a mouse model of cancer cachexia. by Vanessa C Vaughan, Melanie Sullivan-Gunn, Edward Hinch, Peter Martin, Paul A Lewandowski

“…Mice with cancer cachexia were randomized into 4 treatment groups (EPA (0.4 g/kg/day), oxypurinol (1 mmol/L ad-lib), combination, or control), and euthanized after 29 days. …”
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Effect of feeding hydroponics maize fodder on digestibility of nutrients and milk production in lactating cows by P K NAIK, R B DHURI, M KARUNAKARAN, B K SWAIN, N P SINGH

“…Animals were offered 5 kg concentrate mixture and ad lib. jowar straw along with either 15 kg fresh hydroponics maize fodder (T-HF) or conventional napier bajra hybrid (NBH) green fodder (T-CF) for 68 days. …”
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Effects of Neem (<i>Azadirachta indica</i>) Leaf Powder Supplementation on Rumen Fermentation, Feed Intake, Apparent Digestibility and Performance in Omani Sheep by Hani M. El-Zaiat, Elshafie I. Elshafie, Waleed Al-Marzooqi, Kawakob Al Dughaishi

“…Animals were fed an <i>ad lib</i> basal diet consisting of Rhodes grass (<i>Chloris gayana</i>) hay (600 g/kg) and a concentrated mixture (400 g/kg) offered twice daily. …”
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Effect of feeding wheat and rice straw based complete feed blocks on nutrients utilization, blood biochemical and growth performance in crossbred calves by PANKAJ KUMAR SINGH, CHANDRAMONI CHANDRAMONI, KAUSHALENDRA KUMAR, SANJAY KUMAR

“…Calves were fed mash form of 50% wheat (WM50) or rice (RM50) straw whereas corresponding other group was offered compressed complete feed blocks of wheat (WB50) or rice (RB50) straw based diet ad lib. and 2 kg green oat. Feeding trial lasted for 90 days. …”
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Evaluation of native medicinal plants as feed additives in the Sheep ration by DILSHAD KOUR, VIJAY KUMAR SHARMA, RAMESH KUMAR SHARMA, ANAND KUMAR PATHAK, ANKUR RASTOGI

“…In vivo trial was conducted in which fourteen indigenous, non-descript, adult male sheep (body weight, 27.10±0.10 kg and age, 22-24 months) were randomly allotted into two groups and fed ad lib. wheat straw and concentrate mixture @ 25 g/W0.75 along with Pimpinella anisum @ 3% of ration in treatment group. …”
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Scheduled feeding improves sleep in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease by Emily Chiem, Emily Chiem, Kevin Zhao, Derek Dell’Angelica, Cristina A. Ghiani, Cristina A. Ghiani, Ketema N. Paul, Ketema N. Paul, Christopher S. Colwell

“…Seeking to determine if these benefits extend to physiological measures of sleep, electroencephalography (EEG) was used to measure sleep/wake states and polysomnographic patterns in male and female wild-type (WT) and bacterial artificial chromosome transgenic (BACHD) adult mice, under TRF and ad lib feeding (ALF). Our findings show that male, but not female, BACHD mice exhibited significant changes in the temporal patterning of wake and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. …”
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Chemical composition and fatty acid profile of rhea (Rhea americana) meat by Pedro Fernando Romanelli, Elizeu Trabuco, Andréia Borges Scriboni, Jesuí Vergílio Visentainer, Nilson Evelázio de Souza

“…Las aves fueron criadas en cautiverio, alimentadas con ración balanceada (Nutriavestruz Crescimento - Purina) y mantenidas en corral con pasto ad lib. La edad media de las aves de los dos sexos usados en la investigación fue de 12 meses y el peso medio de 23 kg. …”
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Effect of straw type (Cajnus cajan or Cicer arietinum) and form of diet on growth, feed efficiency and slaughter performance of weaned Jamunapari goat kids by M K SINGH, M K TRIPATHI, A K DIXIT, S K SINGH

“…These were randomly allocated to four groups of kids, six in each and fed ad lib. The kids under present feeding and management protocol attained live weight 18 to 19 kg at 6 month, 24 to 28 kg at 9 month and 31 to 34 kg at 12 month of age, with average daily gain (ADG) 71 to 84 g during entire growth period. …”
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Mathematical model to predict the dry matter intake of dairy cows on pasture by ROSARIO SÁNCHEZ-PÉREZ, MARÍA D MARIEZCURRENA, MONA M M Y ELGHANDOUR, MIGUEL MELLADO, LUIS M CAMACHO-DIAZ, MOISÉS CIPRIANO-SALAZAR, ABDELFATTAH Z M SALEM

“…In the design of the model, ad lib. feed consumption was assumed. Parity, state of lactation and gestation were considered to estimate the cow ingestion capacity. …”
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Effect of Systemic Inflammation on Rat Attentional Function and Neuroinflammation: Possible Protective Role for Food Restriction by Brittney Yegla, Thomas Foster, Thomas Foster

“…To examine the possibility that mild food restriction inherent to the behavioral task influenced inflammation markers, a second group of food-restricted or ad-lib-fed rats was assessed for cytokine changes 48 h after one injection.Results: Performing LPS-treated rats exhibited a sickness response, manifesting as reduced initiated and completed trials during the first week but recovered by the second week of testing. …”
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A simplified approach to calculate slurry production of growing pigs at farm level by Franco Tagliapietra, Mirko Cattani, Matteo Dal Maso, Stefano Schiavon

“…Water excretion was estimated in two ways depending on: 1) free access (ad lib) to water; 2) restricted access (forced). In the first case, the proportion of water consumed (wiad lib) and those excreted with the urine (wuad lib) and the faeces (wfec) were quantified to be 2.9, 1.72 and 0.33 kg per kg of feed, respectively. …”
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Dietary supplementation of Ficus hookeri leaves as herbal feed additive affects nutrient utilization and growth performances in growing crossbred calves by A SANTRA, T TAKU, S TRIPURA, S K DAS, T K DUTTA

“…Ten Jersey male cross-bred calves (~ 4 months of age) were divided equally into two groups (G1 and G2) and were fed ad lib. under stall feeding on a paddy straw based mixed ration consisting of 50% paddy straw and 50% concentrate mixture for a duration of 140 days. …”
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Nutritional evaluation of cowpea, mung bean and cluster bean fodders in Barbari male adult goats by PRABHAT TRIPATHI, M K TRIPATHI, T K DUTTA, RAVINDRA KUMAR, SUSHIL K YADAV, U B CHAUDHARY

“…Barbari male (n=18) adult goats were divided into three equal groups with 5 animals in each and fed daily with one of the three crop fodders ad lib. followed by nutrient balance trial after 25 days of initiation feeding. …”
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Effect of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes supplementation on nutrient intake and digestibility in Black Bengal kids by A CHATTERJEE, MANOJ KUMAR, T K DUTTA, A MOHAMMAD, C BHAKAT, SAROJ RAI, D K MANDAL, M KARUNAKARAN

“…Control (T0) group was fed ad lib. TMR was prepared from concentrate mixture and green fodder @ 40: 60 on DM basis. …”
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Performance of 1-year-old camel calves fed a basal ration of alfalfa hay supplemented with different levels of concentrate by Ahmed R. Askar, Rawia Darwesh, Sabbah Allam, Galal M. Abdul Aziz, Afaf A. El Shereef, Ehab Y. Eid, Hamedi M. Kandil, Samir S. Abou El Ezz, Mohsen M. Shoukry

“…Conclusions The present study concluded that yearling camel calves receiving different levels of concentrate with ad lib alfalfa hay could cover their nutrient requirements for maintenance and growth with a daily gain of 630 g/day when the level of concentrate was limited to 0.7% of BW and the total intake was only around 1.65% of BW, or 70.6 g/kg metabolic BW.…”
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Blood Lipid Profile of Hypercholesterolemia Rattus norvegicus L. Fed with Sausages Containing Omega 3 and Omega 6 Fatty Acids by Sujarwanta, Rio Olympias, Suryanto, Edi, Setiyono, Setiyono, Supadmo, Supadmo, Rusman, Rusman, Jamhari, Jamhari, Erwanto, Yuny

“…They were grouped into four groups consisted of six rats and fed with basal ration, and drinking water ad lib. The rats were given sausages with different level of omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids with ratio of 1 : 5.29. …”
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