Publications by authors named "Raimondas Leikus"

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  • - The study analyzed how feeding quail diets enriched with hempseed or camelina cakes affects the fatty acid profiles in their meat over 42 days, comparing these to a control group fed with rapeseed cake.
  • - Results showed that quail fed camelina cake had significantly higher levels of beneficial fatty acids like α-linolenic acid and long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in their meat compared to both the control and hempseed groups.
  • - Although hempseed cake increased some beneficial fatty acids, it negatively impacted the growth performance of the quail; both diets ultimately led to healthier meat with improved n-3 PUFA content.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of supplementing commercial diets with rapeseed, hempseed and camelina seed cakes on the yolk and albumen colour and nutritional value of yolk lipids in Estonian quail eggs. A total of 585 eggs were used to evaluate egg weight, yolk and albumen pH and colour, proximate yolk composition, cholesterol content and fatty acid composition in the yolk lipids of three Estonian quail groups each fed a diet supplemented with 10% rapeseed, hemp or camelina seed cakes. The higher (p < 0.

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Camelina seed or seed processing derivatives, i.e., cake, are cheap alternative protein feed ingredients for meat type poultry.

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The diversity of breeds is an important factor influencing carcass and meat quality traits that are also associated with other different effects. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of breed, gender, and feeding level in the finishing phase on the carcass and meat quality of Lithuanian White and Lithuanian Indigenous Wattle pigs reared indoors. After 60 kg weight, half of the animals from both breeds were fed a restricted diet of approximately 82% of average ad libitum feeding intake, and the other half of pigs were further fed ad libitum to the end of the experiment.

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