However, the other dietary ingredients (fish meal, rice bran, wheat bran, maize meal and wheat flour) contained some amount of lipids as well as other nutrients (Table 3) but their effects were balanced by supplementing the same amount to both study groups (treatment and control).
Samples of feed ingredients such as Poultry viscera, fish meal, rice bran, wheat bran, Mustard oil cakes, wheat flour, etc., were collected, and sun dried properly, then packed in polyethylene bags to prevent initial spoilage and brought to the ASEPAN laboratory Visva-Bharati, then stored in refrigerator.
Mushroom growers commonly add different ratios of natural nutrient sources from corn meal, wheat bran and rice bran to sawdust to enhance G. frondosa colonization and formation of superior quality fruiting body (Montoya et al. 2012).
The remainder of the supplement contained soybean meal, wheat bran, ground corn, urea, and mineral salt.
Peanut meal, wheat bran, soya bean meal and soluble starch were used as carbon and nitrogen source.
Cottonseed meal, rice bran and other agricultural waste products have also been used.
Two male cows, fitted with rumen fistula, were maintained on a diet consisting of 60% guinea grass and 40% commercial cow pellet (FFM Berhad, Malaysia) which contained corn grain, palm kernel cake, soybean meal, rice bran, palm kernel oil, limestone, salt, and vitamin-mineral premix.
Broodfish were given formulated diet prepared with the ingredients of fish meal (40%%), rice bran (20 %), wheat bran (15 %), maize meal (12.5 %), wheat flour (10%%), vitamin-B complex (0.5 %) (Techno Drugs, Narsingdi, Bangladesh), α-tocopherol (2.5 IU/g) (Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Bangladesh) and squid extracted phospholipids (1 %) (Nippon Chemical and Feed Co. Ltd., Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan).
The diets were based on corn, soybean meal and wheat bran.
Cassava residue meal and rice bran were the main fibrous feeds in the high-fibre diet.
