Experience and research demonstrated that the quality of the day-old chick has a big influence on the growth and final performance of the broiler. Describing and measuring chick quality is considered to be very difficult. Visual score, Tona or Pascar score, day-old chick weight and chick length are commonly used for measuring chick quality. Visual scoring include color of the chickens, navel qu...

The objectives of this study were to determine whether intestinal viscosity caused by mixed linked barley beta-glucan depresses ileal nutrient digestibility and digestive enzyme activities and to determine the interaction of intestinal viscosity, digestive enzyme activities and ileal nutrient digestibility in different ages of poultry. In Experiments 1 and 2, 1-d-old broiler chicks and 1-y-old ...

Two hundred, one-day-old broiler chicks were divided into groups 1, 2 and 3 containing 60, 70 and 70 chicks, respectively. The groups were divided into subgroups of 10 chicks that were vaccinated according to the following scheme: group 1 unvaccinated control, group 2 vaccinated subcutaneously at 1 day old with inactivated oil adjuvant vaccine (IOAV) in combination with live B1 vaccine. Group 3...

The goal of our research was to assess the effect Enrofloxacin (fluoroquinolone antibacterial drug) on WBC indices different kinds poultry at young age. In order study dynamics we performed two series experiments employing groups as follows: Group 1 – control group (one-day-old chicks, receiving pure drinking water), 2 experimental via water concentration 200 g/L for 10 consecutive days), Group...

A total of 210 twenty twoday-old broiler chicks were used in this programme to investigale the performance, [ca\ intake, digestibility and visceral organ mass of broiler chicks fed with high level of olive pulp.supplemented with two antibiotics: streptomycin and tylosin. The two antibiotics were added to supply 150 nig/kg of the active ingredient. Chicks which consumed the medicated diets had m...

At 7 d postinoculation (DPI) with a mixed culture of avian Eimeria species, 21-d-old chicks maintained in batteries and floor pens on a diet containing 0.15% (3 lb/ton) betaine plus 66 ppm (60 g/ton) salinomycin were significantly heavier and had significantly lower feed conversion ratios and mortality than chicks fed diets containing 0.15% betaine or 66 ppm salinomycin alone, or the control di...

Haemoglobins of chicks, yearlings and known-age sub-adults of the royal penguin were investigated by starch-gel electrophoresis at pH 8-6. Two haemoglobin components were observed in yearlings and sub-adults. These were assumed to be the haemoglobins of adults. Another three haemoglobin components were observed in 3-week-old chicks. In seven out of eight fledging chicks, these chick haemoglobin...

An experiment was conducted to compare two common methods of estimating bone ash from growing broiler chicks (A = autoclaving; B = boiling/extracting). Ross x Ross 1-d-old broiler chicks were fed a corn-soy, phosphorus-deficient diet (22.7% CP, 1% calcium, 0.22% non-phytate phosphorus), with 0, 750, 1,500, 3,000, or 6,000 units of phytase (FTU) to produce bones with a range of ash. The methods ...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of training on a region of the chick brain known to be critically involved in imprinting, the intermediate and medial extent of the hyperstriatum ventrale (IMHV). In the first experiment, three groups of chicks were used: (i) dark-reared (n = 9), (ii) trained for 20 min (n = 17), and (iii) trained for 140 min (n = 7). Chicks were trained...