Fowl typhoid (FT) and pullorum disease (PD) are septicaemic diseases, primarily of chickens and turkeys, caused by Gram negative bacteria, Salmonella Gallinarum and S. Pullorum, respectively. Clinical signs in chicks and poults include anorexia, diarrhoea, dehydration, weakness and high mortality. In mature fowl, FT and PD are manifested by decreased egg production, fertility, hatchability and ...

David Edward Sargent was born in Wimbledon, son of a GP. He not academic at school and always refuted the saying that your schooldays are best days life. However, it Dauntsey’s School Wiltshire that, alongside his education, he developed interest countryside many animal husbandry skills used spare time especially retirement. At various times during long life kept donkeys, goats, pigs, sheep, ch...

This study was conducted to estimate the genetic parameters influencing egg quality in Khorasan Razavi native fowl. (Co)Variance components were estimated by the Bayesian statistical method via Gibbs sampling in GIBBS3F90 software. 1000 eggs (28-29 weeks old) were collected from 775 hens of the ninth generation of Khorasan-Razavi Province native fowl breeding center. External (egg weight,specif...

The aim of this study was to examine whether the secreted fluid from the uterus influences the survival and fertilization capacity of fowl sperm in the hen oviduct. Hens with either regular uterine fluid secretion or irregular uterine fluid secretion were artificially inseminated through the transfer of sperm into the uterus. Twenty-four hours after  artificial insemination, 3 hens with regular...

Penelitian tentang diagnosa ini dilakukan pada kasus penyakit ayam petelur dimana yang umum menyerang akan mengurangi produksi telur. Untuk mengatasi hal maka dirancang sebuah system pakar untuk memudahkan peternak dalam mendiagnosa ayam. System dengan memilih gejala-gejala mungkin di alami oleh dan memberikan hasil keputusan berdasarkan metode dempher shaper. Hasil berupa jenis solusi penangan...

FowL PLAGUE is a devastating disease of poultry which was first described in the form of outbreaks in Italy in the last two decades of the nineteenth century.1 Until then no clear aetiological distinction had been made between it and chicken cholera, and only after Perroncito2 in 1878 and Pasteur" in 1880 had turned their attention to chicken cholera did the difference in clinical manifestation...

avian adenovirus was isolated from naturally infected birds during 1990 to 2003 in the vicinity ofkarachi, pakistan. the virus is known to cause hydro-pericardium syndrome (hps) in poultry. the mortalitywas recorded 20-50% in commercial broilers. fifty field samples were collected; however, six samples wereselected for molecular studies. these isolates were grown and characterized by cell cultu...