The quest for balanced and affordable protein makes broiler rearing increasing monotonic economically. It is highly nutritious it creates employment opportunities as a result of its quick returns on investment readiness to the market within short period. experiment was conducted at Animal Production Departmental Demonstration Farm (APDDF), Faculty Agriculture, DSUST, Ozoro, evaluate BWT morphom...

a semi-field study was carried out to evaluate the effect of two medicinal herbs, individually and in combination, on growth performance, carcass traits, nutrient digestibility and immune response of broiler chickens.  a total of 384 one-day-old straight-run arbor acres broiler chickens were allocated into 24 floor pens prepared in a commercial broiler house. pen-groups were fed one of the foll...

Experiments were conducted to evaluate the nutritional value of yellow-seeded rapeseed meal (YRSM). In the first experiment nutrient retention was recorded by 48 Arbor Acres-broiler chickens (28-d old) to determine AMEn (nitrogen-corrected apparent metabolizable energy), coefficient of apparent protein digestibility based on ileal digesta nitrogen, excreta nitrogen and uric acid nitrogen. The s...

BACKGROUND The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of oridonin (ORI) on growth performance, relative organ weight, lymphocyte proliferation, phagocytic function of neutrophils, and cytokine concentration in broiler chickens. A total of 240 one-day-old Arbor Acres male broilers were randomly assigned to four treatments with six replicate pens of 10 broiler chickens per pen. Br...

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of protease supplementation on behaviour, slaughter performance, meat quality, and immune organ indices broilers. A total 240 one-day-old Arbor Acres broiler chickens were randomly allocated four treatments, with six replicates per treatment 10 broilers replicate. Chickens fed corn-soybean meal basal diets supplemented 0, 4, 8, 12 IU/g p...

A total of 480 Arbor Acres Broiler chicks (mixed sex) from 1 to 35 days age were divided randomly into 4 treatments evaluate the impact defatted Scenedesmus obliquus biomass (DAB) on broiler performance. The DAB was supplemented diets with levels 0, 0.25, 0.50, 1.00% one-day-old age. samples analyzed in triplicates. productive traits measured weekly and biochemical indices at end trial. Data st...

one hundred and eighty 28-days-old arbor acres broiler birds were utilized in a 28 day experiment to investigate the effect of replacing bone ash with eggshell meal in the diet of broiler birds on their nutrient digestibility and blood parameters. five experimental diets tagged t1, t2, t3, t4 and t5 were formulated to be isocaloric (2865.53 kcal me/kg) and isonitrogenous (20% crude protein) suc...

This research was conducted to measure the exterior characteristics in four hybrids of broilers fed pelleted and commercial mash feed. A total 112 one-day-old chicks from broiler hybrids, namely, Arbor Acre, Cobb 500, Marshall, Ross 308 were used for this experimentation allocated into treatments with 28 birds each hybrid replicated times 7 per replicate a 2 × 4 factorial experiment. Pelleted m...

this experiment was carried out for a determination of metabolizable energy and the effect of the grind multienzyme on in-vitro dry matter and protein digestibility in diets, and as well on performance of broiler chicks. a number of 800 day old unsexed arbor acres broilers were placed in 8 treatments and 4 replicates (25 chicks each). a completely randomized design (crd) of a factorial arrangem...

Received: Revised: Accepted: June 13, 2014 July 19, 2014 August 05, 2014 The use of haematology as an index of health status is well known, just like the use of erythrocyte osmotic fragility and heterophil-lymphocyte ratio (H:L) as biomarker of oxidative stress. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of molasses supplementation through drinking water on live weight gain, haematolog...