Investigation of the Guinea fowl and domestic fowl hybrids as potential surrogate hosts for avian cryopreservation programmes

Methods for Cryopreservation of Guinea Fowl Sperm

Conservation of indigenous poultry species is an important part of the new Hungarian agricultural strategy. Semen cryopreservation is the most practical method for the long term storage of poultry genetic material. The objective was to compare four protocols for cryopreservation of guinea fowl sperm (slow and fast programmable, freezing in nitrogen vapor, and pellet) and three cryoprotectants (...

Decerebration of the Domestic Fowl.

Novel Avian Coronavirus and Fulminating Disease in Guinea Fowl, France

For decades, French guinea fowl have been affected by fulminating enteritis of unclear origin. By using metagenomics, we identified a novel avian gammacoronavirus associated with this disease that is distantly related to turkey coronaviruses. Fatal respiratory diseases in humans have recently been caused by coronaviruses of animal origin.

Renal function in domestic fowl.

SKADHAUGE, ERIK, AND BODIL SCHMIDT-NIELSEN. Renal function in domestic fowl. Am. J. Physiol. 2 12 (4) : 793-798. 1967.Roosters were exposed to water and salt loading and to dehydration. The ureteral urine was collected through polyethylene funnels. The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was found to increase an average of 23 yO from dehydration to hydration, when at the same time the urine flow i...

Nutrition and reproduction in the domestic fowl.

In the domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) the fertilized egg in the infundibulum of the oviduct consists of an enormous mass of yolk about 40 mm in diameter on which rests the blastodisc about 3 mm in length. The whole is enclosed by a vitelline membrane, but as the egg passes down the oviduct (a process requiring about 24 h) albumen is deposited around it, shell membranes are laid down enclosin...