in order to investigate the effects of artichoke leaf powder and vitamin eon performance, internal organs relative weight and some blood parameters, 240 day-old quails were assigned to four treatments including, basal diet (control), basal diet supplemented with levels of 1.5 and 3 percent of artichoke leaf powder and basal diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg diet vitamin e with four replicates an...

The objective of the present experiment was to quantify the gas production parameters, methane emission and microbial nitrogen production of a conventional total mixed ration including corn silage, alfalfa hay, wheat straw and concentrate (390, 110, 22 and 478 g/kg of diet DM, respectively) treated with different levels of Natuzyme® and pre-incubation time after enzyme administration. Two hundr...

in this experiment, the influence of prebiotic and probiotic supplementation in the broiler breeder diets on body weight, mortality, feed intake, egg production, hatchability and humoral immunity response was investigated. a total number of 13140 female and 1260 male breeders (cobb 500) with 26 wks of age were allocated to three treatments with six replicates (800 birds each replicate). breeder...

The present study was aimed to assess the influence of brown marine algae and vitamin E (VE) (160 ppm α-tocopheryl acetate) on stability of chicken meat enriched with fish oil. In this study, 360 d-old broilers (Arbor Acres Plus) were randomly assigned to 6 treatment groups with 4 replicates of 15 birds in each. Experimental groups consisted of corn-soybean basal diet (C), corn-soybean basal di...

The present experiment was conducted to assess the efficacy of liquid methionine hydroxy analogue-free acid (MHAFA) in comparison to DL-methionine (DL-Met) in broilers. 567 day-old Avian chicks were divided into 7 treatments with 5 replicates of 16 birds each. During the 35d (7-42 d) experimental periods chicks were given two basal diets. From 7 to 21d of age, a starting basal diet containing 1...

Inadequate supply of glucose or glucogenic substrates to the body tissues can affect metabolism of absorbed acetogenic metabolites from the gut and therefore, influence feed intake in ruminants. This study investigated the effect of energy supplementation on rumen kinetics in the gut, and the acetate clearance rate in the body tissues of sheep fed low quality basal roughage. A basal diet consis...

the present study was aimed to assess the influence of brown marine algae and vitamin e (ve) (160 ppm α-tocopheryl acetate) on stability of chicken meat enriched with fish oil. in this study, 360 d-old broilers (arbor acres plus) were randomly assigned to 6 treatment groups with 4 replicates of 15 birds in each. experimental groups consisted of corn-soybean basal diet (c), corn-soybean basal di...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)extract as an alternative to flavophospholipol on performance, carcass characteristics, antioxidant status,meat quality, intestinal morphology and ileal microflora of broilers. A total of 220 day-old male broiler chicks (Ross 308) were used in a completely randomized design with five treatments each re...

background & aim: ferulago angulata sub. carduchorum (locally name: chavir or chavil) is an important medicinal plant in iran. the powder of aerial parts of this plant contains variety of components with different therapeutical effects such as antioxidant activities (aoa). this study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation powder of aerial parts of this plant on t...