Despite the practice of spiking flocks with younger males, reproductive problems increasingly impact the capability of flock managers to produce needed chicks and increase the cost of chick production. The problem also impacts breeders and producers using artificial insemination (AI). Recognizing that the problem is partially caused by poor semen quality, flock managers might consider evaluatio...

Efforts that can be made to improve the performance of native chickens are by crossing them with Bangkok chickens. This study aims determine growth body weight from cross-breeding between Kampung chicken and chicken. As many as 30 male chicks a cross were used in this study. The crosses rooster chicks. DOC female was 35.22 ± 0.96 grams. There significant increase starting at age 5 weeks 8 age, ...

Some of the properties and the amino acid compositions of the histones of calf thymus, calf liver, fowl erythrocytes, and of a protamine-like material isolated from rooster sperm were described. The amino acid compositions of the histones were rather similar except that no methionine was found in the fowl erythrocyte histone. In the fowl, histones are found in the somatic chromosomes and protam...

This research was carried out to investigate the effects of various levels of dietary organic selenium supplementation (0, 0.1,  0.2 and  0.3 mg/Kg) on reproductive traits of rooster. Semen was collected using abdominal massage and samples were mixed together. Sperm characteristics including percentage of motile, viable and abnormal sperms were assessed. This experiment was carried out based on...

We have developed a system for the in vitro transcription of specific genes in rooster liver chromatin by endogenous RNA polymerase II that maintains the specificity of transcription in vivo. Radioactive transcripts synthesized in vitro were identified and quantitated by hybridization to a vast excess of cloned cDNA. The cDNA preparations employed corresponded to vitellogenin mRNA, the synthesi...

We have developed a system for the in vitro transcription of specific genes in rooster liver chromatin by endogenous RNA polymerase II that maintains the specificity of transcription in uiuo. Radioactive transcripts synthesized in vitro were identified and quantitated by hybridization to a vast excess of cloned cDNA. The cDNA preparations employed corresponded to vitellogenin mRNA, the synthesi...

BACKGROUND The Houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata) is a wild seasonal breeding bird populating arid sandy semi-desert habitats in North Africa and the Middle East. Its population has declined drastically during the last two decades and it is classified as vulnerable. Captive breeding programmes have, hitherto, been unsuccessful in reviving population numbers and thus radical technological so...