With the increasing demand for poultry products (meat and eggs) worldwide, farmers want to improve productivity of their flocks. This challenge has necessitated nutritionists offer specific nutritional strategies improved productivity. Feed additives are recommended as one such strategic options, plant materials, otherwise known phytogenics, being extensively investigated. Therefore, study's ob...

introduction: high environmental temperature during summer months which leading to heat stress, is of great concern in all types of poultry production. feed consumption, growth rate, hatchability, mortality, and other important traits governing the prosperity of the industry are adversely affected by severe heat stress. literature suggests that the advantages of dietary l-carnitine and ascorbic...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of commercial herbal and chemical medicines on growth performance, serum lipids, intestinal selected bacterial population and intestinal morphology of broiler chickens. in this study, 450 day-old female broiler chickens (arian strain) were divided into 10 treatments with three replicates of 15 chicks per replicate. on day 14 of the experiment,...

the aim of this study was to develop a diet suitable for obtaining quail eggs enriched with omega-3 fatty acids with minimum disadvantages on egg quality. this 12 weeks study was performed to investigate the effects of fish oil (fo) and savory (satureja khuzestanica) essential oil (eo) supplementation in diets of laying quails at different ages, on their performance, egg quality, fatty acid com...

In this research a 100 day long treatment period was considered to unmask the probable adverse effects of long-term induced hyperthyroidism on histomorphometrical attributes of the oviduct in broiler breeder hens. A total of seventy 47-week-old Cobb 500 breeder hens were randomly allotted to two treatment groups (5 replicates of 7 hens each). Thyroxine (T4) was orally administered to the hypert...

background: glutamine supplementation to the pre-starter diet of broiler chicks could improve their performance during the first week of post-hatch. objectives: this experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of glutamine levels in the pre-starter diet on intestinal mucosa morphology and performance of broiler chicks. method: a total of 160 ross 308, one-day old broilers were used in a ...

this study was carried out to indicate the effects of olive leaves on arterial blood pressure, blood lipids and growth performance in broiler chickens. experiment was conducted with 5 treatments and 4 replicates with 25 birds per each replicate in a completely randomized design with over all 500 male arian strain 1-day old broilers. the period of study was 42 d. treatments were control, drug of...

An experiment was conducted to test the effect of dietary levels sun-dried sheep manure (SSM) on egg quality parameters and productive performance Shika-Brown layers. Six isonitrogenous almost isocaloric diets were formulated contain SSM at 0.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 5.0 % level inclusion. Diet I, which had no manure, served as control. White maize used for formulation diets. Each six replicated f...