an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of germinated barley (gb) on live performance and carcass traits in broiler chickens. the experiment lasted for 5 weeks starting from 7 days of age and ending at 42 days of age. chicks (ross 308) were fed six dietary treatments including a corn–soy diet (corn diet), a barley–soy diet (barley diet), a barley diet plus enzymes...

the aim of this study was to isolate escherichia coli from chickens and to determine the presence of the eaea gene, a virulence factor detected in escherichia coli, in the isolates by polymerase chain reaction (pcr). different chicken organs (lung, liver and spleen) were inoculated onto blood agar and biochemical tests were performed on the suspicious isolates. escherichiacoliwas isolated from ...

the experiment was conducted on forty five broiler chickens at 4 weeks of age, for a period of threeweeks, to assess the effect of complete replacement of fish meal with processed fish wastes (fish waste acidsilage and surimi waste powder) on the blood protein, lipid and antioxidant status in broiler chicken, eventhough an earlier study indicated that this replacement induced normal growth rate...

background & aim: a feeding trial was conducted to investigate the effect of periodically use of garlic on growth ‎performance, and antibody titer to newcastle and infectious bursal diseases in broiler ‎chickens. experimental: ross broiler chicks randomly allocated into the 10 dietary treatments ‎for 6 weeks. a 3 × 4 factorial experiment was used as three periods of feeding (starter, grower...

the mucus layer plays an important role as an intermediate for the protection of the gut against acidic chyme, digestive enzymes, and pathogens; in addition, it acts as a lubricant and facilitator of nutrient transportation. phytogenic compounds seem to promote intestinal mucus production. objectives: the current study was conducted to investigate the effects of low and high levels of energy an...

changes in dietary electrolyte balance influence the metabolic fate of protein and many amino acids. furthermore, acid-base condition is achieved in part by the alteration of dietary amino acids pattern and quantity. therefore, a trial was conducted in a completely randomized design to evaluate performance, carcass characteristics, plasma electrolyte and uric acid concentrations of 19 and 28-da...

the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of dietary artichoke supplementation on performance, carcass traits and some blood parameters of broiler chickens. a total of 300, one day old broiler chicks (ross-308) were randomly allocated to 1 of 4 dietary treatments including: basal diet (control), basal diet supplemented with 1.5 or 3 percent of artichoke powder and also with 300...

this experiment was conducted to determine the effects of myrtle essential oil (meo) on growth performance, carcass characteristics, antibody titer and blood parameters of broiler chickens. a total of 200 ross 308 broiler chickens were allocated to five dietary treatments with four replicates of 10 birds each. dietary treatments were prepared by formulating a corn-soybean meal-based diet free o...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Euphorbia hirta and acidifiers supplement on resistance of broiler chickens against Salmonella enteritidis infection. A total of 120 day-old male broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 3 dietary treatments. 1) basal diet, 2) basal diet supplemented with 2 g/kg organic acid (OA) and 3) basal diet supplemented with 7.5 g/kg E. hir...

The direction of production for indigenous chicken breeds is currently unknown and this knowledge, combined with the development of chicken genome-wide association studies, led us to investigate differences in specific loci between broiler and layer chicken using bioinformatic methods. In addition, we analyzed the distribution of these seven identified loci in four Chinese indigenous chicken br...