A nine (9) weeks feeding trial was conducted on seventy two (72) day-old Indigenous turkey poults raised deep litter to determine their growth performance, carcass and economic characteristics when fed three dietary treatments (T1, T2, T3, containing 0%, 25% 50% replacement of maize with millet respectively. The birds were divided into replicates 8 per replicate; making a total 24 treatment. At...

The course of changes within the upper respiratory tracts of turkey poults experimentally infected with Alcaligenes faecalis was studied. The initial change observed (5 days post-inoculation) was colonization of the upper respiratory tract by the bacterium. Changes in the nasal turbinates and trachea were first apparent as a focal loss of cilia but subsequently developed into a general loss of ...

There have been relatively few lysine requirement studies that have covered the full productive life of commercial toms (0 to 20 wk). Lysine is the reference amino acid for Ideal Protein ratios and accurately defining the requirement reduces fractional errors in the corresponding ideal protein ratios. A series of studies were conduct to determine the lysine concentrations (total and digestible)...

Dexamethasone (DEX)-induced immunosuppression facilitates Escherichia coli pathogenesis leading to lesions of air sacculitis and turkey osteomyelitis complex (TOC). The purpose of this study was to determine if early handling could affect resistance to disease in this model. Seven hundred twenty male turkey poults were handled 0, 1 (1x), or 2 (2x) times daily for the first 10 d after hatch. Han...

This study was conducted to determine the effects of beak trimming, stocking density (D) and sex (S) on live weight (LW), carcass yield and its component, and plasma glucose (PG) and triglyceride levels in Large White turkeys. To accomplish this aims, totally 288 d old large white turkey chicks (144 in each sex) were used. Beaks of 77 male and female poults were trimmed when 8 d old with an ele...