This experiment was carried out to study the effects of different levels of vitamin C (0, 150, 300 and 450 ppm) and cage density (3, 4 and 5 birds) on performance and egg shell quality of laying hens under high environmental temperature. In a completely randomized design with 3 × 4 factorial arrangement, one hundred and ninety two (192) 25 week white leghorn hens were divided into 48 replicates...

   One of the main problems of multiple-trait genetic evaluation in poultry breeding is high computing costs. Principal components analysis (PCA) is a method for reducing the number of traits in correlated trait analysis. The aim of the present study was to determine the most effective principal components (PCs) of internal egg quality and some performance traits of Azarbayjan native chickens. ...

Economically success incomerical and Native laying hen farms in some eaten is related to egg quality. So, egg quality is a one of the most important factor affecting hatchability and lead to increasing the egg demand. The current study was carried out in aim to estimate the genetic parameters for egg quality traits in Fars native fowls. To do this, 2000 pedigree recorded eggs were collected at ...

An experiment with 720 pullets was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary energy levels of pullet and dietary energy and fat of laying ration on subsequent performance parameters during 14-20 and 22-44 weeks of age. In the first period, white leghorn pullets were fed with two diets of low and high density energy (2600 and 3200 Kcal ME/kg). In the lating period (second period), birds, in...

Wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (WDDGS) is a by-product that can be an alternative feed ingredient for poultry. However, WDDGS contains non-starch polysaccharides which limit its dietary inclusion. The objective of the current experiment was to evaluate the effect of WDDGS with or without Endofeed W® as a commercial enzyme on laying hens. A 5×2 factorial arrangement in a completely ...