1. ANIMAL NUTRITION LAB DATABASE FOR FORMERS
LIVESTOCK REARERS AND ORGANIZATIONS
PREPAIRED BY: MUHAMMAD ASIF
E-mail: vetmuhammadasif89@yahoo.com
CONTECT #:+92 03215735601
LASBELA UNIVERSTY OF AGRICULTURE WATER
AND MARINE SCIENCES UTHAL, BALOCHISTAN

2. QUESTION
Why animal nutrition lab is necessary
for farm animals….?
NUTRITION LAB is necessary for more
healthy, balanced productive and
economical feed formulation which
helps for increasing
productivity/output in terms of
meat, milk, wool, etc.

3. What we should feed?
Anything that can increase
productivity. In other words we
need to match the requirements
of animals from available feed
recourses.

4. What make a feed better then the
other?
It is difficult to answer. But
possible guesses could be: Due
to protein? Due to energy?
Due to minerals? Due to
vitamins?

5. How we can formulate a better productive
and economical feed?
Through proximate
analysis, which we can
perform in an animal
nutrition lab.

6. What is proximate analysis?
This refers to the determination of the major
constituents of feed and it is used to assess if
a feed is within its normal compositional
parameters or somehow been adulterated.
This method partitioned nutrients in feed in
to 6 components: Dry matter
(moisture), ash, crude protein, ether
extract, crude fiber and NFE.

7. How we can perform proximate
analysis ?
We use functional
animal nutrition lab
for this evaluation.

8. LAY OUT PLANE FOR ANIMAL NUTRITION LAB

9. REQUIRMENTS OF ANIMAL NUTRITION LAB
FOR PROXIMATE ANALYSIS
Dry Matter:
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Spitula
China dish
Electric Balance
Weighing Balance
Hot Air Oven
Desiccators
Ether Extract
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Filter paper
Weighing Balnce
Soxhelt Beaker
Soxhelt Apparatus
Thymbol
Rubber Band + Plastic covering
n-Hexane/ Ether
Hot air oven
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Crude Protein
Digestion mixture
Copper Sulfate
Ferrous sulfate
Potassium Sulfate
Kjeldhal Flask
Concentrated sulfuric acid
Heater, exhaust (Complete Assembly)
250 ml Volumetric flask
Boric acid
NaOH
Weighing balance
Beakers
10 ml pipettes
Kjeldhal Apparatus
100ml Flasks
Methyl red
Ethyl alcohol
Boric acid
Burette
1N sulfuric aicd vial (Merks)

10. REQUIRMENTS OF ANIMAL NUTRITION LAB
FOR PROXIMATE ANALYSIS
Crude Fiber
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Fat free sample
Fiber Distillation Apparatus Sulfuric acid
Sodium Hydroxide
China dishes
Hot air oven
Weighing balance
Muffle Furnace
Crude Fiber Beakers
Pipettes
Line
Water Distillation Apparatus
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Silage pH
pH meter (Digital)
Shaker n Cloth
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Acid detergent Fiber
Decaline (Decathydronaphthalene)
Acetone
n-Hexane
CTAB (Cetyl Trimethyleamoniulm Bromide)
Sulfuric acid
Cinctured Crucible # 4
Neutral detergent Fiber
Calcium Determination
Phosphorus Determination
Aflatoxin Determination
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Ash
Weighing Balance
Gas Burner
Muffle Furnace
Crucible
Desiccators
Weighing Balance