This study determined whether supplementing the diet of laying hens in final third with vitamin D improves bird health and egg performance quality. The were separated into four groups six repetitions each five animals per repetition to test three doses supplementation (50, 100, 150 mg/kg). had no effect on performance; however, when we individually evaluated repetition, found that birds T100 T1...

Sex-separate male and female broilers (2,592 broilers; Ross x 708) were placed in 144 floor pens (12 replications per treatment) and fed diets containing high (H) and moderate (M) amino acid density from 1 to 55 d of age. Diets were formulated using ileal digestible amino acid ratios to Lys. Six dietary treatment combinations (MMMMM, HMMMM, HHMMM, HHHMM, HHHHM, and HHHHH) were implemented in 5 ...

BACKGROUND H5N1 avian influenza represents an episodic zoonotic disease with the potential to cause a pandemic, and antiviral resistance is of considerable concern. We sought to generate high-titer H5N1 antibodies in healthy volunteers for the purpose of developing hyperimmune intravenous immunoglobulin. METHODS We conducted a dose-escalating, unblinded clinical trial involving 75 subjects ag...

an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of feed restriction (fr) and meal feeding (mf) on performance, carcass characteristics and related parameters to ascites in ross 308 male broiler chickens. five dietary treatments were 1) the control (ad libo. feeding), 2 )feed restriction from 7 to 14 days (fr14), 3) feed restriction from 7 to 21 days (fr21), 4) meal feeding from 7 to 14 days ...

The effects of antibiotic, probiotic, and prebiotic as dietary feed additives on carcass composition as well as Salmonella counts and its serotypes in droppings and intestine of broiler chickens on days 1, 28, and 56 of experiment were investigated. Dietary treatments were control diet (basal diet without additives), OXYT diet (basal diet with 600 ppm of the antibiotic oxytetracycline), GRO-UP ...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of stocking density on growing-meat quail performance (experiment I) and the effect of dietary crude protein (CP) levels and stocking density on growth performance, nutrient retention, blood metabolites, and carcass weight of growing-meat quails under high ambient temperature (experiment II). Three hundred and eighty male growing-meat quails...

this experiment was conducted to compare the effects of quantitative feed restriction and meal feeding on the performance, carcass compositions and ascites syndrome in male broiler chickens (ross 308). in this study, 5 schedule feed restrictions include: 1) ad libitum food intake (al group), 2) feeding maintenance energy requirement from 7 to 14 d of age 3) feeding to support 50% of the normal ...

A study was conducted to evaluate efficacyof wheat based vs. corn based diets on growth performance, carcass traits,blood parameters, jejunum morphological development, immunity, cecal microflora and excreta moisture in broiler chicks fed according to digestible essential amino acid profile. One hundred forty day old Ross 308 male broiler chicks randomly distributed into ten separated floor pen...

Physiological stress was studied in broilers using a new model employing continuous release of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH). A total of 42 adaptive response parameters were evaluated. A treatment response ratio, P-value transformation, and stress score were determined for each parameter. The treatment response ratio was calculated by dividing the maximum response of the ACTH-treated birds for eac...