From 1992 to mid-1996, a national survey of poultry diseases in Lebanon was conducted. This surveillance included meat breeder, layer breeder, commercial layer and chicken broiler flocks. The history, signs, lesions and laboratory tests of poultry were used in the diagnosis of prevalent poultry diseases. Culture techniques were used to screen for bacterial diseases; serological techniques and, ...

background: infectious bursal disease virus (ibdv) causes a highly immunosuppressive disease in chickens and is a pathogen of major economic importance to the poultry industry worldwide. the vp2 protein is the major host-protective immunogen of ibdv and has been considered as a potential subunit vaccine against the disease. vp2 coding sequence was cloned in an inducible fungal vector and the pr...

The experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of Christmas melon and Neem extract on growth performance, carcass characteristics, organ characteristics cost benefits broiler chickens. employed a completely randomized design. All data generated were subjected analysis variance. A total one hundred day old Abor Acre chickens used in this study, birds weighed arrival brooding pen know ...

Domestic poultry production has been highly improved in Turkey in the last two decades and it has become a large industrial sector, contributing to both national economy and public nutrition by means of eggs, meat and by-products (feather, internal organs, feces, etc). Parallel to the improvement in the poultry sector, various diseases have emerged and substantial economic losses have occurred ...