The present experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of drinking water temperature and stocking density (SD) on oxidative metabolism in heart, liver, bursa fabricius, thymus broiler chickens raised under heat stress. comprised 360 one-day-old Ross 308 male randomly divided 6 experimental groups with 4 replicates each group. Experimental treatments included three different SD (low = 12...

A total of 80 day old British United Turkeys were subjected to four dietary treatments at varying levels of niacin + yeast. Each treatment had 20 birds of 4 replicates with 5 birds in each replicate. Niacin + yeast (240 ppm niacin + 1.5g/kg yeast and 200 ppm niacin + 1.5 g/kg yeast, at the starter, grower, and finisher phase) showed significant effect on body weight gain, serum Low Density Lipo...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate lignin and mannanoligosaccharides as alternatives to antibiotic growth promoters in broilers. Dietary treatments for the 2 studies were 1) negative control (CTL-, antibiotic free); 2) positive control (CTL+, diet 1 + 11 mg of virginiamycin/kg); 3) mannanoligosaccharide (MOS; diet 1 + BioMos: 0.2% to 21 d and 0.1% thereafter); 4) LL (diet 1 + 1.25% Alce...

The effects of vitamin A (VitA) deficiency on the host intestinal immune response and disease susceptibility to coccidiosis were investigated in broiler chickens following oral infection with Eimeria acervulina (EA). Day-old male broilers were fed milo-soybean meal diets either with 8,000 IU VitA/kg feed (CONT) or without added VitA (A-DEF). At 25 d, a group of randomly selected birds from each...

a study has been carried out for determining of cross-immunity between massachusetts (mass) m41 and iranian ir/773/2001 (793/b) strains of infectious bronchitis virus. two groups of 20 three weeks old spf chickens vaccinated subcutaneously with two oil-emulsions inactivated infectious bronchitis vaccines (mass m41 and iranian ir/773/2001 strains) that had been manufactured in razi institute in ...

an experiment was carried out to estimate growth parameters of broiler chickens received artichoke extract in their drinking water using gompertz non-linear model and to compare gompertz non-linear regression equation and artificial neural network modeling in terms of their ability to predict body weight of broiler chicks at day 42 of age. a total number of 250 one- day- old ross 308 broiler ch...

effects of post-hatch fasting (phf) and subcutaneous injection of ca-gluconate (ca-g) on productive performance, immune response and mortality of broiler chicks were investigated using 640 one-day-old ross 308 chicks in a 5×2 factorial experiment with five phf levels (zero, 12, 24, 36 and 48 h) and two ca-g injection levels (zero and 0.7 ml) in a completely randomized block design in four repli...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of dietary turmeric rhizome powder (TRP) as a natural antioxidant, and soybean oil, canola oil and tallow on lipid metabolism, blood metabolites, immune system, and antioxidant status of broiler chickens before (BHS, 28 d) and after exposure to heat stress (AHS, 42 d). Seven hundred and ninety two d-old male Arian broilers were randomly allotted ...

the aim of this study was to assess the meat quality attributes of broiler chickens fed diets supplemented with silver nanoparticles coated on zeolite. a total of 375 one-day-old broilers was assigned in a completely randomized design to 1 of 5 treatment groups including: basal diet, basal diet supplemented with 1% zeolite, and basal diet supplemented with one of the three levels of zeolite coa...

the present study was done to study the effects of water hypericum perforatum extract (whpe) on performance, abdominal fat, carcass characteristics, and blood biochemical parameters of broilers with 160 day-old ross 308. broilers were randomly distributed among the16 experimental units of four treatments with four replications (10 birds in each replicate) for 42 days. the treatments were includ...