Background: Malnutrition resulting from inappropriate and ineffective childhood feeding remains a significant public health concern especially in developing countries, where poor child feeding practices exert serious negative impact on health outcomes. This qualitative study explored mothers’ perception about complementary feeding, mothers’ hygiene and food safety measures, food storage, and pr...

The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers to the use of appropriate infant and young child-feeding practices by primary caregivers living in a rural Ugandan district. A community-based qualitative design and focus group discussions were used for collecting data from primary caregivers of children aged 0 to 24 month(s). On an average, each of the four focus group discussions had 11 p...

The links between childhood eating behaviours and parental feeding practices are well-established in younger children, but there is a lack of research examining these variables in a preadolescent age group, particularly from the child's perspective, and longitudinally. This study firstly aimed to examine the continuity and stability of preadolescent perceptions of their parents' controlling fee...

Background and purpose: Inappropriate complementary feeding practices are one of the causes of malnutrition worldwide. This study was aimed to determine the complementary feeding practices according to World Health Organization recommendation in Sari, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study on complementary feeding practices assayed the different aspect of infant feeding based o...

In the system of full-fledged poultry feeding, particular importance is attached to providing them with mineral substances. The purpose this study was determine effect Apimin additive based on bee podmore content zinc, copper, magnesium, and iron in meat, liver, bone tissue quails. During study, following methods were used: zootechnical (to analyse productivity quails), physiological digestibil...

Glycerol can be used as a substitute for corn for feeding poultry, but there are concerns about how it may affect growth performance and health of the birds. We evaluated the expression of mRNA of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in 35-day-old Japanese quails fed different glycerol levels (0, 4, and 8% dietary glycerol instead of corn). Total RNA was extracted f...

Recently, the requirements for quality and safety of poultry products have significantly increased, what has notably limited use antibiotics in feeding poultry. This is one reasons growing interest phytogenic feed additives. We conducted an experiment to determine influence Artemisia capillaris on young quail meat productivity. To carry out experiment, we formed five groups, each counting 100 h...

Supplemental feeding is a tool for enhancing northern and some of the economic implications of feeding. This bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) populations on hunting leases in South Texas. Feeding may be used to improve winter survival, reproduction and/or harvest of birds. Before implementing a feeding program, operators should consider management goals and the factors limiting quail populations....

Aim: The present study was designed to evaluate the safety of seabuckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L. Elaeagnaceae) leaves added in the diet of Japanese quail. Materials and Methods: A total of ninety quail chicks were randomly divided into 2 groups and fed a standard quail chick mash added with or without 2% SBT leaf powder (Group SX), and a standard quail chick mash (Group CX, control) for 21 d...

— Several studies have investigated the use of supplemental feeders by Northern Bobwhites ( Colinus virginianus ) and non-target species, but none have previously examined the use of food spread along fields. We used motion-sensing cameras to assess use of supplemental quail food spread along the edges of fields. A total of 3,233 camera hours resulted in 591 animal pictures associated with 328 ...