The influence of including 20% whole corn, differing in grain hardness, on the performance, nutrient utilization and gut characteristics of broiler starters was investigated. The experimental design was a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments evaluating corn hardness (hard, semi hard or soft) with diets based on ground corn or 20% of ground corn replaced by whole corn. The 3 corn cultivars ...

Total sixty four straight run broiler chicks of two daysold were fed a control diet and diet supplemented with Fungi inhibitor (FI): Gentian violet (GV), Copper sulphate (CS), GV+CSto evaluate the effect of dietary FI on the performance characteristics of broiler. The levels of GV, CS and GV+CS were 0.05%, 0.06% and 0.025%+0.06%, respectively. Dietary FI did not alter the growth rate, feed inta...

The proventricular surface epithelial cells were positive for both acid and neutral mucins and stained intensive for acid phosphatase and adenosine triphosphatase. The proprial gland cells revealed histochemical distribution and activity of various enzymes and lipids similar to that of the submucosal gland cells. However, the ductular cells of the submucosal glands showed comparatively stronger...

wk. Feed consumption, body weight and feed conversion were measured at 2, 4 and 6 wk. Carcass yield and weights of abdominal fat, gizzard and ceca were also determined at 6 wk. All birds were intramuscularly immunized with killed vaccine of Newcastle and Avian Influenza (H9 N2) at 8 d and antibody titer responses to Newcastle and Influenza were determined by hemagglutination inhibition (HI) tes...

The purpose of this study was to present the structure of nematofauna community with particular emphasis on stomach (proventriculus and gizzard) nematodes in wild ducks wintering in large numbers in the North-Western Poland. Hosts (n=152) were represented by 17 species from eight genera belonging to three different ecological tribes: Anatini, Aythyini, and Mergini. Parasitic nematodes (n=14,396...

cDNA clones for chicken B-CK were isolated by immunoscreening from a gizzard cDNA library constructed in the expression vector lambda gtll. The entire coding portion in addition to the complete 3' untranslated region and 42 bp of the 5' noncoding part are represented in the clone H4. On RNA blots H4 insert DNA hybridized to a 1600 bp poly(A)+ RNA from gizzard, brain and heart but not to breast ...