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Recently, interest in animal production and poultry particular has increased, because meat eggs their products are more widely consumed than other products. Human health is also considered one of the priorities. Nowadays, fermentation industry become very popular due to its great benefits pharmaceutical industry, improvement foodstuffs feed improvement. Moreover, microbial can enhance content d...

Currently, the use of herbal leaves is increasingly being used to improve performance and health poultry. Herbal contain phytochemical compounds that can promote growth This study aims examine effect giving Indigofera zollingeriana leaf aqueous extract (ILE) via drinking water from 2-10 weeks age on carcass characteristics native chickens. a completely randomized design with four treatments 5 r...

A male common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) was found dead in a field April 2019 the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, and submitted to Department for Protection Animals Environment cantonal police Zurich. Because is protected species, carcass forwarded Poultry Rabbit Diseases, University forensic examination. On necropsy, profuse internal haemorrhage without causal trauma observed, leading suspicio...

With the decline in the number of rendering operations due to industry consolidation and concern about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) transmission, disposal of dairy and beef cattle mortalities by rendering either is not an option or is prohibitively expensive in many areas of the United States. On-site burial remains an alternative in many states, but impact on ground water quality is ...

By combining two mature technologies of imaging and spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging has recently been widely studied and developed, resulting in many successful applications in the food industry for quality and safety evaluation and inspection. These applications include meat quality assessment, automated poultry carcass inspection, quality evaluation of fish, bruise detection of apples, qu...

Poultry meat is considered to be a major vector of transmission of Campylobacter, either directly, through consumption of poorly prepared product or cross-contamination, or indirectly, through introduction of the bacterium into the food production environment. Efficient detection of Campylobacter is intrinsic to the management of the pathogen during poultry production. The TECRA Campylobacter V...

Visceral urate deposition (visceral gout) is a common finding during post-mortem examination of poultry. Rare cases of visceral gout may occur in wild birds. A rare case of visceral urate deposition in a little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus) is reported here. In May 2013, carcass of a little bittern was submitted for necropsy to the Clinic of Poultry Diseases (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Razi...