The influence of the season and market class of broiler chickens on breast meat quality traits was determined on a total of 18 flocks reared and processed under commercial conditions. According to the Italian poultry production system the following classes of birds were considered: light size (1.2 kg of carcass weight; n = 90) and medium size (1.8 kg of carcass weight; n = 90), represented by f...

The purpose of this research was to analyze effect the balancing lemuru fish oil and palm on carcass broiler chemical composition breast broiler. 200 broilers reared from DOC 35 days old. Broilers were divided into 4 treatment groups 5 replications. consisted of: P0 = diet with 3% crude oil, P1 1% + 2% P2 P3 oil. Data analyzed using ANOVA Duncan's significant difference test. Treatment up had (...

a semi-field study was carried out to evaluate the effect of two medicinal herbs, individually and in combination, on growth performance, carcass traits, nutrient digestibility and immune response of broiler chickens.  a total of 384 one-day-old straight-run arbor acres broiler chickens were allocated into 24 floor pens prepared in a commercial broiler house. pen-groups were fed one of the foll...

a total of 700 day old female broiler chicks (ross 308) were distributed into seven groupsin acompletely randomized designwith five replicates, and 20 chicks in each replicate. dietary treatments, timeof the switch from an unsaturated sunflower oil (sfo) to a saturated tallow (t)dietary fat source, were: 1) sfo for the entire growth period (6 weeks), 2) sfo for 5 weeks followed byt for last wee...

The tilapia industry has grown significantly. Much waste is generated by the industry due to the fact that only the myomere muscles are removed and sold for human consumption. This portion constitutes approximately 36% of the entire fish, leaving 64% of the fish as waste lost during the various processing operations. This waste from the tilapia processing plant has the potential of being an alt...

Transmission of Campylobacter to humans has been prominently associated with mishandling or improperly preparing contaminated poultry carcasses. The number of organisms per carcass represents an important measure of human exposure to the agent. Therefore, we wished to estimate this public exposure over 1 yr among Italian broiler carcasses. We sampled 213 broiler carcasses from rinse water sampl...

The article presents the results of feeding broiler chickens with different doses feed additive "M-feed". It was found out that use optimal dosage "M-feed" in chickens' diets contributed to an increase absolute gain by 7.7%, average daily 7.6%, and gutted carcass weight 12.9%, contrast control group.

Guanidino acetic acid (GAA) is naturally occurring in animal tissues playing a major role in the energy metabolism as a precursor of creatine. The objective of the study was to examine potential effects of GAA (CreAMINOTM) supplementation in purely vegetable diets compared to a positive control. Therefore a total of 780 male ROSS 308 broiler chickens were assigned to one of the following three ...

Campylobacter is a human pathogen commonly found on live broilers and processed carcasses. To plan effective intervention strategies, it would be helpful to know which Campylobacter populations are associated with the external and internal organs of broilers. Six carcasses were collected after exiting the bleed tunnel at a commercial broiler plant on each of three visits (n = 18). Carcasses wer...

By using a technique that previously demonstrated improved efficiency of intact crop removal for broilers, experiments were conducted to determine the effectiveness of the technique in 40and 41-wk-old broiler breeder roosters and hens. The technique involved (after scalding, defeathering, and head removal) separating (breaking) the neck from the carcass parallel with the shoulders and leaving t...