이유자돈 시기에 자돈의 성장성적을 개선하기 위하여 자돈의 사료섭취량을 극대화하는 것은 중요 하다. 본 연구는 사료섭취량을 증대시키기 위한 방법으로써의 향미제의 사용이 이유자돈의 성장성적 및 혈액성상에 미치는 영향을 규명하기 위해 수행되었다. 평균 체중 6.43±0.955kg의 3원 교잡종 ([Yorkshire×Landrace])×Duroc) 160두를 공시하였으며, 4처리 5반복 펜당 8마리씩 성별과 체중에 따 라 난괴법으로 배치하였다. 처리구는 1)향미제를 첨가하지 않은 처리구, 2)밀크-바닐라향 0.3%를 첨가 한 사료 3)버터향 0.3%를 첨가한 사료 4)어분향 0.3%를 첨가한 사료이다. 실험결과 성장성적, 혈액성 상 및 설사지수에서 처리구간 유의적인 차이를 발견하지 못하였다. 따라서 향미제의 종류에 상관없이 향미제를 0.3% 첨가한 사료는 그렇지 않은 사료에 비해 이유자돈의 성장성적이나 혈액성상에 있어서 아무런 긍정적인 영향을 끼치지 않을 것으로 판단된다.

Consumers may have different reasons to buy the animal welfare eggs by purchase places. They may have preferred places to buy the eggs, also. The objective of this study was to compare the purchase places for the eggs. If the producers of the eggs understand the different reasons by the places, they will establish marketing strategies for the eggs by the purchase places. A total of 355 Korean consumers was surveyed. There were statistical significances at traditional market, major retail outlet, and convenience store for female consumers and at traditional market, major retail outlet, department store, internet shopping and convenience store for married people. For age groups, over 40s group showed a significance at traditional market, major retail outlet, department store and convenience store. There were statistically significant at traditional market, major retail outlet, and convenience store for the respondents who had over three million won as their monthly income. It was significantly proven at traditional market and major retail outlet for full time housewives. From the results of the study, the following marketing strategies can be suggested for the places to buy the eggs by demographic classification. The producers should classify the markets and focus their strategies to each place for increasing their market share. These results suggest that focus on traditional market for female and middle-aged group, and retail shop like discount store for the people classified by over 3 million won in income. This study also could be used to aid marketing strategy and animal welfare eggs research.

With increasing concerns for the animal welfare, it is required to do a study on consumer's awareness about the necessity of animal welfare products. Thus, the purpose of this study was to analyze the consumers awareness about the necessity of animal welfare products. Especially, in this study, animal welfare egg was focused in Korea. Data were collected by consumer survey at Hanaromart in Chuncheon on November 4th, 2011. SAS 9.1 and Excel 2007 were used as statistical packages and ranked logit model was used as a tool for analysis. The results of this study were as follows. Variable c1 had significant probabilities in categories of “over 40s” for age and “under 3 persons" for family size. Variable c2 had significant probabilities in categories of “over 40s” for age, “over 3 million won” for monthly income and “under 3 persons” for family size. Variable c3 had significant probabilities in categories of “over 3 million won” for monthly income and “under 3 persons” for family size. Variable c4 had significant probabilities in categories of “married” for marital status, “over 40s” for age, “over 3 million won” for monthly income and “under 3 persons" for family size. Variable c5 had significant probabilities in categories of “married” for marital status, “over 40s” for age, “over 3 million won" for monthly income and “under 3 persons" for family size. Variable c7 was ranked as the first reason in the categories of “male” for gender, “under 3 million won" for monthly income and “under 3 persons" for family size. Variable c2 was ranked as the first reason in the categories of “single” for marital status, “under 40s” for age and “over 4 persons" for family size. Variable c3 was ranked as the first reason in the categories of “married” for marital status and “over 40s” for age. The results of this study provide important information to policy makers and farmers. The policy makers can use the results when they will make policies related with the animal welfare, and the farmers can use the results when they will make marketing strategies. This study had a few limitations that the survey was conducted at a city, and at a mart. In spite of the limitations, this study will provide important information to future studies

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of Chromium-Methionine (Cr-Met) chelate feeding for different durations on growth and carcass characteristics in the late fattening stage of Holstein steers. Nine Holstein steers were randomly assigned to three dietary treatments (3 head per treatment) including Non Cr-Met chelate feeding (NCM, av. BW of 433.3 kg), Cr-Met chelate feeding for 2 months (2CM, av. BW of 459.6 kg), and Cr-Met chelate feeding for 4 months (4CM, av. BW of 490.0 kg), respectively. The feeding amount of Cr-Met chelate to an animal was limited to 400 ppb/day. Dry matter intake showed no differences among all the treatments (p>0.05). Average daily gain was also higher in the animals fed Cr-Met chelate diets than NCM (p<0.05). Carcass weights were also observed to be higher in Cr-Met chelate feeding treatments, especially in 4CM compared with other treatments (p<0.05). Although no significant differences were observed on back fat thickness and rib eye area(p<0.05), but 4CM showed much higher effects than NCM and 2CM. Marbling score meat color, fat color, texture, and maturity were not affected by treatments (p>0.05). The variations in meat quality were smaller in 4CM compared to other treatments. 4CM showed higher total and net income than other treatments (p<0.05). Therefore, the current study concluded that Cr-Met chelate supplementation for 4 months could increase daily gain, carcass characteristics, and profitability of Holstein steers in the late fattening stage.

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary sericite(SC) on laying performance, feed conversion ratio, egg quality and fecal ammonium nitrogen. Three hundreds and sixty 92-wk-old, Lohman Lite layers were randomly divided into 20 groups of 18 birds each and assigned to five experiment for 4 weeks (72 birds per treatment). Dietary treatments were Control (control diet), SC 0.5 (control diet +0.5% sericite), SC 1.0 (control diet +1.0% sericite), SC 1.5 (control diet +1.5% sericite), and SC 2.0 (control diet +2.0% sericite). Hen-day egg production tended to increase by the SC 1.0%, SC 1.5% and SC 2.0% supplementation in the diets. Egg weight also tended to increase by the SC 1.0% addition in the diets. Feed intake was increased (p<0.05) in SC 1.5 and SC 2.0 but feed conversion was improved (p<0.05) only in SC 1.0 (p<0.05). Digestibility of nutrients were not linearly affected by dietary supplementation of sericite although there was an inconsistent difference. Egg shell strength, albumin height, yolk color, and egg shell thickness were not affected (p<0.05) by treatments. Fecal NH3-N concentration was decreased (p<0.05) by dietary sericite supplementation compared to control. This study showed that dietary 1.0% sericite supplementation can be beneficial to improve egg production, egg weight and feed conversion and to decrease fecal NH3-N concentration.

This study was conducted to investgate the effect of gamma irradiation on the lipid oxidation, olfactory properties, fatty acid isomer and volatile compound profiles of five different oil sources. Three plant oils, canola oil, corn oil and soy oil, and two animal fat, tallow and fish oil, were irradiated with 0, 5, 10, and 20 kGy level of dose by Co-60 as a radiation source. Lipid oxidation parameters, FFA, POV and TBARS, were determined according to the AACC and AOCS method. Olfactory property of irradiated oil sources was analyzed using electronic nose (FOX3000, AlphaMOS Co., France) with 12 metal oxide sensors and the result was interpreted using principle component analysis program. Fatty acid isomer profiles and volatile compound profiles of irradiated oils were also measured by GC and GC-MS, respectively. Although the free fatty acid level of oil were the highest by high dose level (20 kGy) of irradiation, changes of both TBARS and POV values by gamma irradiation were varied between oil sources and irradiation level of dose. Electronic nose analysis showed a distinct difference among dose levels of irradiation. Although there was no new volatile compound produced by gamma irradiation, amounts of each volatile compounds were increased by irradiation. Only cis isomer, 9c12c15c of linolenic acid was dose-dependently decreased as irradiation level increased but there was no difference among other isomer profiles of linoleic acid and linolenic acid by gamma irradiation. This study showed that changes in physico-chemical properties of both plant and animal oil were remarkable by gamma irradiation. Therefore, a further study should be needed to scrutinize the interaction among lipid oxidation, production of volatile compounds and off-flavor, and isomerization of fatty acid by gamma-irradiation.

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary Yanggu original white kaolin supplementation on the growth performances, nutrients utilizability and meat composition of broiler. A total of 260 broiler chicks was alloted to 5 treatments with 4 replications and 13 chicks per replication. In addition to control group that fed diet without any kaolin supplementation, the treatments are designated by dietary supplementation as follows; white kaolin 400 mesh 1%(T1), white kaolin 10,000 mesh 1%(T2), white kaolin 400 mesh 0.8% + probiotics 0.2%(T3) and kaolin rizen(T4). The specific volume of 10,000 mesh white kaolin was higher than that of 400 mesh white kaolin (p<0.05) with no difference in pH between two different size white kaolins. Pellet durability of kaolins supplemented diet was improved, regardless of fat addition, compared to that of no kaolin supplemented diet. Both weight gain and feed intake of broilers in all the kaolin supplemented treatments were higher than that of control during d 0~21 period (p<0.05) but with no differences during d 22~40, On the other hand, kaolin supplementation into the control diet did not affect F/G of young broiler during d 1~21. Overall F/G of broiler was decreased by kaolin supplementation. Although there was no difference on ether extract, crude ash, total CHO and dry matter utilizabilities among all treatments, both crude protein and energy utilizabilities were improved by kaolin supplementation. Crude protein content of both broiler thigh and breast was the lowest in the kaolin and probiotics combined supplemented group(T3). In conclusion, the supplementation of physico-chemically treated white kaolin does affect growth performances, nutrients utilizability and meat composition of broilers. Therefore, the kaolin can be considered as a beneficial feed additive to improve broiler productivity.

To elucidate the effect of feeding differently prepared CaCO3 (industrially purified limestone) on laying performance, egg shell quality and serum calcium and phosphorus concentration, totally 288 layers (52 wks old), with 16 birds per replicate, 3 replicates per treatment for six treatments were employed into the series of CaCO3 treatments followed by feeding study. Six CaCO3 treatment and diet preparation includes mash diet with naturally sized CaCO3 (MNaC), mash diet with coarsely particled CaCO3 (MCoC), mash diet with finely particled CaCO3 (MFiC), pelleted diet with naturally sized CaCO3 (PNaC), pelleted diet with casein coated CaCO3 (PCnC) and pelleted diet with agar coated CaCO3 (PAgC). Hen day egg production of the bird fed both fine CaCO3 and pelleted CaCO3 were lower (p<0.05) than those fed other CaCO3 diets. Although there is no difference in average egg weight among treatments, the weight tended to be heavier once the egg production rate was low. There is no difference in feed conversion ratio (intake/egg) among treatments. Egg shell thickness was the highest (p<0.05) with feeding of MCoC whereas the value was the lowest with feeding of pelleted CaCO3 diet. Although there is some difference in egg shell thickness, the shell breaking forces were not significantly different among treatments. Calcium content of the shell was the lowest (p<0.05) in the egg from the layer fed finely particled CaCO3. Serum Ca content tended to decrease up to 8 hrs after feeding, then tended to increase afterwards. Although both agar and casein coating of CaCO3 tended to retard the recovering increase of blood Ca, the difference needed to be clarified with individual ovulation cycle. Serum P level was generally decreased as time passed after feeding. Crude protein utilizability was the highest with feeding of agar coated CaCO3 and that of fat was higher with hens fed pelleted diets. Both ash and P utilizabilities of diet with finely particled CaCO3 were the highest among treatment although there were no differences in both energy and Ca utilizabilities. Conclusively, both the particle size of CaCO3 and pelleting of CaCO3 diet could affect shell quality of the egg. The effect was more evident by the differentiation of CaCO3 particle size than any other processing such as pelleting and coating.

Hybridization system, Spraying chamber coating system and aerothermal fluidization spraying (ATFS) system, were tested to find an economic and practical method for vitamin coating. Ae coating by hybridization was done by commercial hybridizer. But both spraying chamber and aerothermal fluidization spraying system were developed by authors for this test. Two vitamins, Vit. E and Vit. C, were employed for coating with four different coating materials, such as eudragit, corn zein, ethylcellulose and gelatin. Coating by hybridization was unsuccessful due to high intake velocity, temperature increase, and bridge formation between vitamin particles. Spraying chamber system was marginally successful to coat vitamins. But the quality of coated vitamin was poor possibly because of the failure of uniform mixing between vitamin and coating materials inside the chamber. Vitamin coating was successfully achieved by ATFS system. The system enables to give not only uniform mixing between coating material and vitamin, but also drying of coated vitamin and uniform diffusion of vitamin particles by thermal aeration. This result was also confirmed through surface micrograph by scanning electron microscope. Therfore, the ATFS system can be considered as a practical system for coating sensitive materials such as vitamins as well as other feed additives.

In view of recycle or treatment of swine manure, the physico-chemical characteristic including the thermal reaction curve by DSC were evaluated. After extrusion processing of swine manure, durability of the pellet and the degree of odor reduction by olfactory detection were also evaluated. Fresh swine manure solids contains more than half of 106㎛ or smaller particles, that could cause a difficulty in physical separation. Totally, 80.34% of solids were volatile solids. As the urea level is increased, the gelatinization temperature of the manure added feed mixture is decreased although the specific energy for gelatinization is increased. The level of fiber and ash did not affect the thermal modification pattern. A durability of extruded and pelleted swine manure-incorporated feed depend primarily upon processing moisture content then secondarily upon both processing temperature and addition level of swine manure. Olfactory odor intensity of swine manure decreased with extrusion of the swine manure although the post processing emission intensity of NH3, SO2, and H2S were not changed due to the processing.