The present experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of drinking water temperature and stocking density (SD) on oxidative metabolism in heart, liver, bursa fabricius, thymus broiler chickens raised under heat stress. comprised 360 one-day-old Ross 308 male randomly divided 6 experimental groups with 4 replicates each group. Experimental treatments included three different SD (low = 12...

One experiment was conducted to study the effect of excess dl-methionine (DLM) and dl-2-hydroxy-4-methylthiobutanoic acid free acid (dl-HMB-FA) on duck growth. One-day-old male white Pekin ducklings were fed common starter diets from hatch to 21 d of age and then fed the experimental diets from 21 to 42 d of age. Three hundred twenty 21-d-old birds were allotted to 40 raised wire-floor pens wit...

This trial was conducted to determine the effects of feeding a diet containing solid-state fermented rapeseed meal on performance, nutrient digestibility, intestinal ecology and intestinal morphology of broiler chickens. A mixed liquid culture, containing approximately 5 log cfu/ml Lactobacillus fermentum, Enterococcus faecium, Saccharomyces cerevisae and Bacillus subtilis was prepared in a 1:1...

A study was carried out to investigate the effects of a drug-free feeding program on broiler performance and intestinal morphology. Chicks vaccinated against coccidia were randomly assigned to 4 dietary treatments: 1) negative control (NC), basal diet; 2) positive control (PC), diet 1 + Lincomycin; 3) program 1 (PG1); diet 1 + Bio-Mos, Vegpro, MTB-100, Acid Pak 4-Way, and All-Lac XCL; 4) and pr...

A total of 240 day old Pekin ducks were reared in indoor and free-range systems to determine the effect production system on some meat quality traits. At 14 weeks age, 16 birds (1 male, 1 female per pen) slaughtered carcass traits determined after an 8-hr fasting period. Ducks achieved a live weight between 2600 2800 grams. Production did not significantly affect part ratios edible inner organ ...

A total of 360 1-day-old broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 4 treatments with 5 replicate cages and 18 birds per cage for a 35-day trial investigate the effects supplementing Achyranthes Japonica Nakai (AJN) root extract in low crude protein (CP) diet on growth performance carcass traits. Experimental diets divided as standard CP content diet, (LCP) LCP supplemented 0.025 or 0.050% AJN ex...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of lightweight pig removal and remixing on performance to slaughter. Experiment 1 was a growing-finishing trial utilizing a total of 900 pigs (26.2+/-0.1 kg initial weight) that were sorted and remixed at a mean replicate BW of 72 kg. Experiment 2 was a wean-to-finish trial (17 d mean wean age; 4.8 kg +/- 0.1 BW) utilizing 225 barrows with ...

this experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of four medicinal plants with antibacterial property on immune system and ileum bacteria population of broiler chicks.a total 336 day-old male ross broiler chicks were used in a crd design with 6 treatments and 4 replicates per each treatment. cuminum l, mentha piperita l, achillea l, teucrium polium l, in levels of 1.5, 0.3, 0.2 and 0.2 ...

background: heat stress declines the performance through physiologic changes of the poultry. objectives: this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of l-carnitine on performance, carcass characteristics and some blood parameters of broiler chickens fed with high fat diets under heat stress. methods: two hundred one-day-old broiler chicks (ross 308) were used in a ...

We investigated the effects of dietary supplementation of zinc (ZnO; 0, 40, 80, 120 and 160 mg/kg) and Vit E (α-tocopheryl acetate; 0 and 40 IU/kg) on egg production, egg quality and Zn content of egg fractions and tissues in Japanese quails. Using a 5 × 2 factorial design, a total of 960 Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) at day 70 of age were housed in cages and randomly assigned in...