Chicken meat and its products are prone to Lipid Peroxidation (LP) during storage.
Synthetic Antioxidants-SA which could be harmful to consumers are often added to
broiler chicken diets or to meat to mitigate LP. Natural ...
African Giant Land Snails (AGLS) (Archachatina marginata) are a good source of protein
with low-fat content but with slow growth rate which may be due to genetic or nutritional
factors. Conventional high fibre feed ...
Unam inung (Ui), a popular salted pork product produced and consumed locally in
Calabar metropolis has dwindled in popularity due to the non-availability of standard
recipe leading to high variation in its quality. A ...
Pollution of water, soil and air by petrochemical effluents, oil spills and gas flare
containing heavy metals is a common occurrence in oil producing areas such as Delta
State, Nigeria. The Drinking Water (DW) are thus ...
The pressure on maize for livestock feeding has necessitated the use of non-conventional feedstuff such as sweetpotato as alternative feed resource. Sweetpotato root is limited by nutrient quality when compared to maize. ...
Sodium nitrite (NaNO2) and sodium chloride (NaCl) are essential ingredients for meat curing.
However, prolonged consumption of these salts could have deleterious health effects on
consumers. Capsicum Extract (CE) has ...
High ratio of cock to hen required for optimal fertility under natural mating usually leads to
increase cost of producing day old chicks. Adoption of Artificial Insemination (AI) could
maximise the use of cocks thus ...
Maize which serves as the main dietary energy source for poultry production is bedevilled with vicious seasonal scarcity. Cassava grits has similar metabolisable energy as maize and could replace dietary maize for laying ...
Groundnut Haulm (GH) is a crop residue often used as a supplement for ruminant feeding in Nigeria especially during dry season. The use of GH as feedstuff is limited by bulkiness and high fibre content. Pelleting and ...
Indigenous Chickens (IC) population in Nigeria is threatened due to high Mortality
Rate (MR) from Viral Diseases (VD). Vaccination is currently the most effective
preventive measure against VD such as the Newcastle ...
Pigs in their natural habitat exhibit explorative habits from which they are restricted by the modern housing systems. Environmental enrichment through provision of rootable or hanging objects for exploratory activities ...
Limiting Amino Acid (AA) fortification such as methionine and threonine of vegetable based low Crude Protein (CP) diets for broiler chicks is often adopted for decreasing production cost and nitrogen emission but could ...
Japanese quails in domestication lack broody tendency hence adoption of artificial incubation for commercial production. Inappropriate Incubation Temperature-IT affects hatchability and sex determination in quails. ...
Green leafy vegetables like Moringa oleifera-MO, Ocimum gratissimum-OGand Vernonia amygdalina-VA are ubiquitous and contain bioactive compounds which may be used to improve quality indices of eggs. Golden yellow colour is ...
Aflatoxins are toxic secondary metabolites of fungi that may retard growth and cause upsurge in mortality of animals when ingested. Existing toxin binders do not mitigate the inevitably absorbed fraction of the toxins, ...
Dietary Oils (DO) are used in poultry feeding without considering their effects on nutrient digestion, absorption and utilisation. Oils rich in Saturated Fatty Acids (SFA) may interfere with uptake of minerals especially ...
Broiler breeder stocks are characterised by low egg fertility and hatchability. These limitations could be mitigated by dietary supplement of Vitamin E (VE). Synthetic supplemental VE is often employed in breeder hen ...
Cereals, the main energy source ingredients, usually constitute more than half of poultry feed. Maize, the most commonly used cereal is expensive and scarce. Cashew Apple Pomace (CAP) is a residue of cashew nut production ...
Slow growth rate and acute heat stress are the main constraints to Indigenous Chicken (IC) production in Nigeria. Characterisation of growth-influencing and heat-tolerance genes are requisites for selective breeding of ...
Leaf meal contains phytochemicals known to influence performance and health status when included in animal diets. Moringa oleifera (MO) crude extracts are rich in phytochemicals which could be harnessed for boosting animal ...