The effects of stocking density on the performance, egg quality, leukocyte concentration, blood biochemistry, corticosterone levels, bone mineral density, and noxious gas emission of laying hens were investigated. Eight hundred 34-week-old Hy-Line Brown laying hens (Gallus gallus domesticus) were randomly assigned to one of 4 treatments, each of which was replicated 4 times. Four stocking densi...

video-on-demand, VOD, video layout, zone-bit-recording, disk I/O performance Rapid progress in high speed networking and mass storage technologies has made it possible to provide video-on-demand (VOD) services, that deliver movies to viewers' homes on request. In this paper, we study video data layout issues in the video server design. Specifically, we present a family of novel video data layou...

BACKGROUND: Old laying hens are more prone to dietary calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) deficiencies as they absorb Ca and P less efficiently than younger hens. OBJECTIVES: In a 2×2 factorial design, the influence of diets with two levels of available phosphorus (AP) and phytase enzyme on the laying performance, egg quality and tibia bone characteristics of laying hens at their late 2nd productio...

An experiment was conducted on laying quails to determine optimum dietary level of Ashwagandha supplementation on egg production and egg quality traits at Instructional poultry farm Nagla, GBPUA&T. Hundred quails were randomly distributed in four treatments and reared on standard managemental conditions. The root powder of Ashwagandha was added over the basal ration at 0.5% level (T2), 1% (T3),...

1. The aim of this study was to evaluate the tolerance of laying hens for an excessive L-valine (L-val) supply on laying performance, egg quality, serum free amino acids, immune function and antioxidant enzyme activities of laying hens. 2. A total of 720 HyLine Brown hens were allocated to 5 dietary treatment groups, each of which included 6 replicates of 24 hens, from 40 to 47 weeks of age. Gr...