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...

satureja hortensis is a popular herb in most regions of the world with leaves used as seasoning. evidence shows that this plant contains phenolic components such as thymol and carvacrol with a relatively wide spectrum of antimicrobial activity. this study aimed at evaluating the efficacy of s. hortensis plant powder as an alternative to antimicrobial growth promoters in broiler diets. the plant...

a 42-d trial with 400 unsexed broiler chicks (cobb 500) was conducted to study the effects of licorice (glycyrrhizaglabra) extract and an antibiotic-lincomycin- on performance abdominal fat and weights of selected internal organs, blood metabolites immunity system response. the feeding program consisted of a starter diet (1-21) d of age and a grower diet (22-42) d of age. chicks were randomly a...

This study investigated the responses of low-weight day-old chicks to zinc bacitracin and Bacillus mixture on growth performance, hematology, intestinal selected microbiota populations, and carcass characteristics. A total of 192 unsexed Lohman MB-202 day-old broiler chicks were randomly allotted to four dietary treatment groups of 48 chicks each (6 replicates of 8 chicks) and fed for 35 days. ...

As a result of major ablative surgery, head and neck oncology patients can be left with significant defects in the orofacial region. The resultant defect raises the need for advanced reconstruction techniques. The reconstruction in this region is aimed at restoring function and facial contour. The use of vascularised free flaps has revolutionised the reconstruction in the head and neck. Advance...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate Japanese quail performance under phase feeding CP regimes during growing and laying periods. A total number of 480 unsexed day-old Japanese quail chicks were equally divided into 4 groups of 3 replicates each. Four iso-caloric starter-grower basal diets (2900 Kcal ME/Kg diet) containing 24, 22, 20 and 18% CP were formulated. Four iso-caloric layer basal d...

This study was carried out to investigate the use of antibiotic in feed and medication programs and their effects on broilers Serum Cholesterol and Glutamic Oxaloacetic Transaminase (SGOT). The broilers were sampled randomly from four small-scale broiler producers (BP1, BP2, BP3, BP4) in Semarang regionCentral Java, Indonesia. Observed data comprising medication programs and the types of feed i...

An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of using thyme (Thymus vulgaris L; TH) or cumin (Cuminum cyminum L; CC) seeds either alone or in combination (at two levels 0.15 or 0.30% of each) to improve the utilization of the low energy broiler diet (LE), containing 2890 kcal ME/kg diet at grower period and 3026 kcal ME/kg diet at finisher period. The diets were formulated to be nearly is...

The experiment was conducted to study productive, physiological and immunological parameters in Bandarah local chicks as affected by dietary organic selenium (SelPlexTM). All chicks were used in the present work produced from females and males fed diets with 0.0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 mg Se / kg diet in the form of selenium yeast (Sel-PlexTM). Two hundred unsexed oneday old chicks (50 chicks per par...

BACKGROUND Since it is not yet clear whether it is possible to satisfactorily avoid sampling-induced stress interference in poultry, more studies on the pattern of physiological response and detailed quantification of stress connected with the first few minutes of capture and pre-sampling handling in poultry are required. This study focused on detection of changes in the corticosterone level an...