The effect of dietary xylitol on growth performance and nitrogen retention was studied in male broiler chicks during immunological stimulation. In experiment 1, chicks (10 day of age) were fed a corn-soybean diet containing 10% glucose or 10% xylitol with identical metabolizable energy and crude protein for 14 days. In experiment 2, ten-day-old chicks were fed 10% glucose or 6% xylitol diet for...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of olive leaf (OL) on immune response and some blood metabolites of broiler chickens. A total of 400 one-day-old broiler chicks (male and female) were randomly assigned to 5 experimental treatments with 4 replicates of 20 birds each. Birds of different treatments were given diets containing 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1% OL powder from 14 to 4...

The effects of dietary additives and holding time on resistance and resilience of broiler chickens to Clostridium perfringens challenge were investigated by offering four dietary treatments. These were a negative control (basal), a positive control (Zn-bacitracin) and two dietary additives, mannanoligosaccharides (MOS), and acidifier. Two holding times included (a) immediate access to feed and ...

introduction & aim: the aim the present study is to examine the effects of boswellia serrata triana & planch on (immune response) performance and carcass characteristic in broiler chicks.  experimental: in this study, 360 one day old chicks (ross 308) were allocated to six treatments with four replicates in a completely randomized design for a six week period. treatments consisted of t...

Effects of excess of dietary methionine (6.5 and 8.5 g kgG1 diet) and lysine (13.5 and 15.5 g kgG1 diet) on performance, blood lipid profile and litter quality of broiler chickens fed corn-soybean meal based diet with or without supplementation of L-carnitine with two levels (175 and 350 mg kgG1 diet) were investigated. Two hundred forty one day old chicks (Cobb) of mixed sex were housed in pen...

This study was aimed at evaluating the effects of different concentrations of the dietary plant extract supplement YGF251 (young growth factor) on growth performance, blood profiles, relative organ weight, nutrient digestibility and meat quality in broiler chickens. A total of 640 one-day-old male Arbor Acres broiler chickens with an average initial body weight of 40.25 ± 0.5 g were randomly al...

Two 21-d experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of low phytate barley (LPB) on Zn utilization by young broiler chicks and to determine the contribution of endogenous phytase, present in LPB. In the first experiment, ninety-six 1-d-old male chicks were assigned to a 2 x 3 factorial arrangement of treatments (4 pens of 4 chicks/treatment). Factors were barley type [wild-type barley (W...

The haematological and serum biochemical responses of broilers fed indomie waste-based diets (IWBD) were investigated using one hundred and ninety (180) day-old broiler chicks of Anak strain. The chicks were randomly allotted to the different dietary treatments having graded levels of the IWBD in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). Each treatment contained 3 replicates and each replicate had ...

an experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary crude protein (cp) and lysine levels on performance and nitrogen excretion in broiler chickens. four hundred twenty 7-day old chickens from ross 308 strain were randomly allotted to 6 dietary treatments with 5 replicates of 14 chicks each (7 male and 7 female chicks). the cp levels were 17, 18, and 20 percent and lysine levels were ...

A total of 320 one-day-old Cobb 500 chicks with an initial weight 48.3 ± 3.3 g·pen −1 were assigned to four dietary treatments eight replicates provided in three phases for 46 d. The fed as mash diets and included (1) negative control (NC) corn-soybean basal diet, (2) positive (PC) diet 30 ppm avilamycin, (3) supplemented 1000 red-osier dogwood extracts (RDE1), (4) 3000 (RDE2). Results showed r...