This study was carried out in the poultry field Jadiriyah, affiliated with Department of Animal Production / College Agricultural Engineering Sciences - University Baghdad. experiment used 480 one-day-old, unsexed broiler chicks breed (Ross-308) an average weight 39.8 g to investigate effect adding different levels turmeric root (CURCUMA LONGA) powder diet on some characteristics and physiology...

to determine the neuropharmacological activity of the leaf extract of croton zambesicus in mice and chicks. the effect of aqueous leaf extract of croton zambesicus on thiopental sodium – induced sleeping time in mice, on gross locomotor activity (gla) in 2-day old chicks and effect of extract on apomorphine - induced stereotyped behavior in chicks were evaluated. the aqueous extract (1000 and 1...

This study was designed to investigate the effects of the residual yolk-sac on the development of the digestive system and immune response of broiler chicks. Two experiments were conducted in this study. In the first one, 60 day-old broiler chicks (Lohmann) were allocated into three experimental groups according to the status of the residual yolk sac; deutectomized (surgicallyremoved residual y...

Nutritional and environmental conditions influence broiler flock performance. Besides these factors, other less-well-understood factors, such as incubating egg characteristics, affect the embryonic life of chicks. This study demonstrated that egg storage depressed egg albumen Haugh units (HU) and chick quality; these effects of storage were greater in egg and chicks from old breeders. Absolute ...

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) isolates were recovered from outbreaks to initiate activities towards developing a local vaccine strain. Use of indigenous chicken embryos was exploited to determine their potential, promote utilization of local resources for research, and enhance household economic activities. Bursa of Fabricius (BFs) samples from outbreaks shown to be IBDV positive was h...

Wind is a significant factor in the thermoregulation of chicks of shorebirds on the Arctic tundra. We investigated the effect of wind at speeds typical of near-surface conditions (0.1-3 ms(-1)) on metabolic heat production, evaporative cooling and thermal conductance of 1- to 3- week-old downy scolopacid chicks (least sandpiper Calidris minutilla; short-billed dowitcher Limnodromus griseus; whi...

Balish, Edward (Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.), and A. W. Phillips. Growth and virulence of Candida albicans after oral inoculation in the chick with a monoflora of either Escherichia coli or Streptococcus faecalis. J. Bacteriol. 91:1744-1749. 1966.-Bacterial protection against intestinal infection by Candida albicans was investigated in chicks with a monoflora of either Escherichia coli ...

The experiment was designed to evaluate the effect of egg size on hatching quality and post-hatch growth performance normal feathered indigenous chickens. Hatchable eggs, grouped into three sizes: medium/control, small large, were incubated obtain day-old chicks. One hundred eighty (180) chicks allotted treatment groups according sizes from which they hatched. Egg significantly (p<0.05) infl...

One-day-old chicks were infected orally with two strains of weakly hemolytic spirochetes isolated from a human and a pig with intestinal spirochetosis. These spirochetosis both colonized birds, attached end-on to their cecal enterocytes, induced watery diarrhea, and significantly depressed growth rates. Cultures of Serpulina innocens failed to colonize the chicks.

The growth rates of young chicks were varied from 0 to 10% per day by manipulation of the adequacy of the amino acid and energy supply. The rates of protein synthesis in the white breast (pectoralis thoracica) muscle and the dark leg (gastrocnemius and peronaeus longus) muscles were estimated by feeding l-[U-(14)C]tyrosine in amino acid/agar-gel diets (;dietary infusion'). This treatment rapidl...