the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of corn substitution with triticale in grower diets (zero, 50 and 100%) with/without exogenous enzyme supplementation on growth performance, digestive organs relative weight, jejunal morphology and blood lipids of quail chicks. two hundred and forty one-day-old unsexed japanese quail chicks were randomly assigned to a completely randomiz...

This study was conducted in the poultry field of Department Animal Production, Faculty Agriculture, University Kufa, for period from September 2, 2021 to October7, 2021, and a 5 weeks. In this study, 300 unsexed broiler chicks, Ross308 hybrid one day old, were randomly distributed five treatments, each treatment included 60 three replicates, replicate 20 chicks. The treatments as follows: Treat...

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) supplementation has been documented as a useful tool to improve the performance of laying birds reared under harsh environmental conditions. However, there is limited information on the use of ascorbic acid as a means of ameliorating the stressful conditions imposed by feed restriction. To this effect a 3 × 2 factorial experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect ...

Six hundred day old unsexed broiler chicks were used in a 42-d trial at Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Science University Poultry Farm to compare the effects of different levels of fish oil supplementation on performance of broilers in terms of feed intake, weight gain and feed conversion and carcass characteristics. The chicks were randomly distributed following a completely randomized desig...

This experiment was carried out at the College of Agriculture University of Salahaddin Erbil. To study the effect of water supplementation with propolis on local quail performance, some physiological and immunological characteristics at 42 days old. A total of one thousand fifty (1050) hatched local quail eggs that obtained from the project of Al-Rashedia for Agriculture Researches Center in Mo...

this experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of using protexin, propionic acid growth promoters, and a blend of them on broilers performance. in a completely randomized design, three hundreds and twenty unsexed 1-d-old chicks were divided into four groups. dietary treatments were consisted of 1) control diet without any supplement, 2) the control diet + 0.01 % protexin, 3) the contr...

colorado potato beetle, leptinotarsa decemlineata is one of the major insect pests of potato. toxicity of spinosad, as a bio-rational insecticide, was investigated against various developmental stages of this pest. bioassays were conducted by using the eggs, neonates, first, second, third and fourth instar larvae and adults. the potato leaves were impregnated with different concentrations of sp...

ascorbic acid (vitamin c) supplementation has been documented as a useful tool to improve the performance of laying birds reared under harsh environmental conditions. however, there is limited information on the use of ascorbic acid as a means of ameliorating the stressful conditions imposed by feed restriction. to this effect a 3 × 2 factorial experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect ...

background: exogenous phytase enhances the utilization of plant phytate phosphorus in poultry. objectives: in the present study the effects of exogenous phytase was investigated on tibia bone characteristics of white quail. methods: in a 2x2 factorial arrangement, eighty, 11-day old unsexed chicks were randomly divided into 4 treatments of 20 replicates. all birds received one of four experimen...

Six hundred day old unsexed broiler chicks were used in a 35-day trial to compare the effects of soybean oil, palm oil and fish oil supplementation on the performance of broilers in terms of feed intake, weight gain and feed conversion. The chicks were randomly distributed following a completely randomized design in four groups having three replications per treatment. Each treatment had 150 bir...