This study presents the possibility of using agricultural by-products to solve problem high forage prices. Rice mill pre-cleaning residues are considered solid waste in Egypt, as many tonnes produced every day. These overgrown heaps always cause an environmental problem. Most millers don't know how dispose it. A simple device for purification it use a supplementary feeder small birds has been m...

MOST groups working on avian brains use head holders adapted to their needs from conventions available ones such as the Kopf and Wells stereotaxic devices. One example is the so-called Revzin-adaptor described by Karten and Hodos [l]. An advantage of their modification is the more accurate placement of the head in an exactly defined angle to the vertical, but this hinders free access to the lat...

In birds, intrajugular injection (i.j.) of exogenous adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) has been used to challenge adrenocortical tissue when investigating various dynamics of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Although this method has been shown to deliver ACTH efficiently, i.j. injection can be difficult and potentially damaging to the bird, especially to young birds and small spe...

Flying animals may experience a selective constraint on gut volume because the energetic cost of flight increases and maneuverability decreases with greater digesta load. The small intestine is the primary site of absorption of most nutrients (e.g., carbohydrates, proteins, fat) in both birds and mammals. Therefore, we used a phylogenetically informed approach to compare small intestine morphom...

Low nutritive value and suitability of barley as a feedstuff for broilers is mainly due to its non-starch polysaccharides. An experiment was carried out to evaluate if diets high in barley alter the mechanisms responsible for the absorption of nutrients across the intestinal epithelium of broilers, using D-xylose absorption test. Thirty, 14-d old male broiler chicks (Ross 308) with similar body...

the present study was carried out to evaluate the effects of vegetable fat sources and additives on performance and morphological parameters of the small intestine of arain broiler chickens. birds were randomly used in a 2×3 factorial arrangement of dietary treatments included two fat sources (canola or pumpkin seed) and three additives (without additive, 0.1 g/kg probiotic and 0.15 g/kg virgin...

an experiment was conducted to study the effects of dietary levels of extruded full fat soybean (effsb) on performance, blood metabolites and intestinal morphology of broiler chickens. a batch of ffsb was wet extruded at 155 °c, 15 seconds to provide the extruded full fat soybean (effsb) sample. one hundred and forty four d-old ross 308 male broiler chicks were divided into 12 groups with 12 bi...