Effect of photoperiod on age and BW at attainment of mature semen production was examined in males of lines selected for high (HL) and low (LL) threshold BW at onset of lay, and in males of a commercial Cornish male line (MC), a commercial broiler breeder female line cross (BX), and a commercial layer cross (LX). Photoperiod treatments were: I, increasing natural spring light; and D, steadily d...

a study was conducted to determine the effects of diet formulation on arian broiler breeder performance in their 50 to 64 wks of age. one hundred and sixty eight female and 24 male breeders were employed in 8 treatments of 3 replicates (7 females plus a male) in a completely randomized design (a factorial experience of 2 × 2 × 2). eight experimental diets were formulated based on three factors,...

A study was conducted to investigate Fe requirements of broiler breeders. One-hundred-fifty-six Cobb 500 broiler breeder hens were individually placed in electrostatically painted cages at 22 weeks. The study was composed of an adaptation phase, in which hens were fed corn-soy-wheat bran diets until 35 wks. An Fe deficient mash diet (24.6 ppm Fe) was provided from 35 to 46 wk in order to induce...

this study was conducted to determine the effects of increasing lighting after peak production on eggs production and hatchable eggs in broiler breeder hubbard f15. in this research we used from 4 growing saloons, that in per saloons were 5250 hubbards broiler breeder hens. in this experiment we used by line design way of glm for analysed data, that we considered the effects of two parameters, ...

the aim of the current study was to evaluate the effects of the guanidinoacetic acid (gaa) supplement on the semen freezability of broiler breeder roosters. experiments were performed with twenty ross commercial strain broiler breeder roosters in four treatments and five repeats in a complete randomized design. roosters were fed a diet containing 0% (control), 0.06%, 0.12% and 0.18% gaa supplem...

Broiler flocks on two Dutch poultry farms were screened weekly for the presence of campylobacter in fresh caecal droppings during eight consecutive production cycles. Hatchery and fresh litter samples were taken at the start of each new cycle. Water, feed, insects, and faeces of domestic animals, present on the farms were also included in the sampling. Penner serotyping of isolates was used to ...