This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary inclusion of thyme essential oil (TEO) on growth performance and immune responses of broiler chicks subjected to heat stress (HS). Broilers were divided into five groups; group 1) chicks fed with basal diet and reared under thermoneutral condition; group 2) chicks fed with basal diet and subjected to HS condition; and groups 3, 4 and 5...

The Japanese quail is a very valuable animal model for research in a variety of biological disciplines. The purpose of this study was to characterize and interrelate age-dependent testicular parameters with various blood constituents: blood glucose, plasma proteins and packed cell volume that are developing concurrently in the growing bird. Another objective of the study was to identify selecti...

the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the impact of vitamin e and selenium (se) supplementation on the performance, egg quality and hatchability of eggs from japanese breeding quails. the experiment was conducted over a 60 day period using 135 quails in a completely randomized design (crd) with two levels of vitamin e and two levels of selenium (80 mg/kg of vitamin e+0.2 mg/kg organi...

proliferation trend and polymorphism in 8 microsatellite dinucleotidalloci, a characteristic of japanese quail, were described in the present study. the primers concerned were tested in 200 birds from bonab research station. samples were taken from four strains of pharach, golden, tuxedo, and panda. in total, all loci were polymorphic, except for guj0001 and guj0041 in respective strains of pan...

The present study was conducted to determine egg production traits and egg quality characteristics in black and brown lines of Japanese quail. A total of 500 quails comprising 400 females and 100 males obtained from two breeding centers were raised according to the standard procedure for Japanese quail. They were grouped in according to their plumage colours. Age at first egg-laying has been re...

this study evaluated the effects of artichoke leaf powder on growth performance and physicochemical properties of japanese quailfrozen meat after 3 monthstorage. a total of 240 japanese quail chicks (1 d old) were raised over a 42-d experimental period. the experiment was performed as a completely randomized design with 4 replicates of 15 quails in each, using a 4 × 2 factorial arrangement with...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect using a mixture ground celery seeds with cinnamon powder as natural additives on performance, carcass parameters and some blood constituents in Japanese quail. One hundred eighty, one day old Quail were randomly assigned (3×2) factorial design arrangement. Three crushed levels (0, 3 6 g/kg diet) two (0 , 4 used six treatments.The obtained results...