A tradeoff between immunocompetence and sexual ornamentation in domestic fowl

Esophagotomy in a domestic fowl: a rare case report

Background: Foreign body in esophagus in birds is rarely reported in literature. Most common site of foreign body in birds is proventriculus and ventriculus. The purpose of this study is to discuss the diagnosis of a large sharp foreign body in the distal third of the neck by plain radiography and its retrieval through esophagotomy and subsequent survival of the fowl. C...

cohesion and cohesive devices in a contrastive analysis between ge and esp texts

the present study was an attempt to conduct a contrastive analysis between general english (ge) and english for specific purposes (esp) texts in terms of cohesion and cohesive devices. to this end, thirty texts from different esp and ge textbooks were randomly selected. then they were analyzed manually to find the frequency of cohesive devices. cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ...

Renal function in domestic fowl.

SKADHAUGE, ERIK, AND BODIL SCHMIDT-NIELSEN. Renal function in domestic fowl. Am. J. Physiol. 2 12 (4) : 793-798. 1967.Roosters were exposed to water and salt loading and to dehydration. The ureteral urine was collected through polyethylene funnels. The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was found to increase an average of 23 yO from dehydration to hydration, when at the same time the urine flow i...

Nutrition and reproduction in the domestic fowl.

In the domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) the fertilized egg in the infundibulum of the oviduct consists of an enormous mass of yolk about 40 mm in diameter on which rests the blastodisc about 3 mm in length. The whole is enclosed by a vitelline membrane, but as the egg passes down the oviduct (a process requiring about 24 h) albumen is deposited around it, shell membranes are laid down enclosin...

Decerebration of the Domestic Fowl.