Bacteriophages are viruses that can infect and kill bacteria. Three studies were conducted to determine the efficacy of bacteriophage to prevent an Escherichia coli respiratory infection in broiler chickens. In the first study 3-d-old-birds were challenged with an air sac inoculation of 10(3) cfu of E. coli per mL mixed with either 10(3) or 10(6) pfu of bacteriophage, or 10(4) cfu E. coli mixed...

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...

Abstract Papaya ( Carica papaya ) seeds together with squash Cucurbita moschata was pelleted to be used as dewormer, determine its antihelmintic effects on growing chicken. They were randomly divided into four treatments and replication five birds per treatment assigned using Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD), a total of eighty native chickens. The were: Treatment A - Control (commercial ...

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of ascites-related physiological and metabolic parameters in broiler chickens fed with different components of bentonite. Two hundred and seven days old Arian male chicks were allocated into five dietary treatment groups including 1) basal diet (control); 2) basal diet + 1% sulphated sodium bentonite (SSB); 3) basal diet + 1% non-processed sodi...

six hundred day old unsexed broiler chicks were used in a 35-day trial to compare the effects of soybean oil, palm oil and fish oil supplementation on the performance of broilers in terms of feed intake, weight gain and feed conversion. the chicks were randomly distributed following a completely randomized design in four groups having three replications per treatment. each treatment had 150 bir...

four hundred fifty day old unsexed broiler chicks were used in a 35-day trial at chittagong veterinary and animal sciences university farm to find out the effect of using crude soybean oil sediment (csos) as a substitute for refined soybean oil (rso) in broiler diet. the experiment was carried out following completely randomized design. the chicks were randomly distributed in three treatment gr...

We examined the effect of dietary Turkish propolis and flavomycin on growth performance, carcass characteristics, internal organ weights and some serum variables in quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) birds. One hundred and fifty day-old quails were randomly divided into five groups, with ten replicate pens per treatment and three birds per pen. One group received the basal diet (antibiotic-free...

This study evaluated the effect of a combination of mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) and microbial phytase (MP) on growth performance, some blood biochemical metabolites, intestinal morphology and cecal microbial population of ROSS 308 broiler chickens from d 0 to 35 of age. A total of 200 one-dayold broiler chickens (mixed sex) were randomly distributed into four treatments with five replicates a...

Two hunared day old broiler chicks were alloted to five treatment groups evaluate the effect of whole soyabean and fish meal supplementation on productivity experimental birds. Feed consump­tion weight gains similar diets 1 -and 3, while feed efficiency protein ratio better (P<0.05) cooked diet 3 as compared groundnut cake based (control) ration. Fish also unproved performance. The raw gave ...