Molting is a common practice used by the commercial egg industry to rejuvenate flocks for a second or third laying cycle. During this time the hens rest from production, and the reproductive organs are rejuvenated to increase production and quality during the next laying cycle. Although feed withdrawal (FW) is the most popular and effective method of molt induction, it has come under scrutiny d...

Currently, the production of eggs in alternative systems has been increasing, but there is no information regarding its quality criteria. Aiming to analyze physical and chemical characteristics organic eggs, associated with advancing age laying, egg weight, albumen height, shell thickness, yolk index percentage, percentage Haugh Unit (HU) evaluated. Every two weeks, six fresh were evaluated, du...

the effect of yeast culture (saccharomyces cerevisiae) supplementation on laying hen diets was tested against flavomycin supplementation during 12 weeks, using 112 brown bovans laying hens, 52 week-old, divided into 7 equal groups fed on a basal diet containing 18.8% crude protein and 2810 kcal/kg me (metabolizable energy) feed. three groups were supplemented with 3 different levels of commerci...

To evaluation of chemical composition and nutritive value of grade one wheat middlings wastes and to get the best levels of its use in layer diets these experiments were investigated.In first the chemical composition and energy and protein content evaluated and then research conducted by 240 hyline w36 layers from day 168 to 280 for 16 weeks(24 to 40 weeks of age). In this experiment four treat...

The main aim of this research was to estimate the genetic and phenotypic parameters for productive and reproductive traits of Esfahan native chickens. Traits included body weights at hatch (BW1), 8 weeks of age (BW8), 12 weeks of age (BW12), and at sexual maturity (WSM)], age at sex maturity (ASM), egg number (EN), average egg weight (AEW) in the first 12 weeks of production, and egg production...

Artificial neural networks (ANN) have shown to be a powerful tool for system modeling in a wide range of applications. The focus of this study is on neural network applications to data analysis in egg production. An ANN model with two hidden layers, trained with a back propagation algorithm, successfully learned the relationship between the input (age of hen) and output (egg production) variabl...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary digestible lysine concentration on productive performance, egg quality, and blood metabolites in laying hens. A completely randomized block design was performed with 5 treatments and 6 replicates of 8 Hy-line W-36 hens each, from 32 to 44 wk of age. The treatments were 5 digestible lysine concentrations (0.657, 0.707, 0.757, 0.807, a...