The liver plays a central role in metabolism and is important in maintaining homeostasis throughout the body. This study integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic data to understand how the liver responds under chronic heat stress. Chickens from a rapidly growing broiler line were heat stressed for 8 hours per day for one week and liver samples were collected at 28 days post hatch. Transcriptom...

MONEVA, P., S. POPOVA-RALCHEVA, D. GUDEV, V. SREDKOVA and I. YANCHEV, 2008. Stress response dynamics in ACTH and formalin treated chickens. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 14: 598-605 This study was conducted with fifteen chickens (White Plymouth rock pure initial line from the National Genetic Resource) at the age of seven weeks which were randomly allocated into three groups: I experimental groupinject...

An experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of different dietary levels of energy on growth performance and meat yields of indigenous (desi) chickens up to the target weight of 950 g in rural condition. One hundred indigenous unsexed chicks aged 4 weeks were considered for the feeding trial until the body weight reached at 950g. Chicks were divided into two dietary treatments havin...

The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in free range chickens is a good indicator of the prevalence of T. gondii oocysts in the environment because chickens feed from the ground. In the present study, prevalence of T. gondii in 40 free range chickens (Gallus domesticus) from a rural area surrounding Paraná, Brazil was assessed. Blood, heart, and brain from each chicken were examined for T. gondii ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate effect two dietary protein levels on performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality parameters in fast- (Ross 308), medium- (JA757), slow-growing (ISA Dual) chickens assess interaction factors. Each genotype divided into a control group fed commercial type feed mixture an experimental low-protein diet (LP). trial terminated after common perio...

Forty female chickens were allocated to four groups of ten birds each. The control group (K) was fed a basal diet without supplementation. The second control group received a basal diet with humic acid (HA) at a dose of 0.5 g per chicken/day. The first experimental group was fed the basal diet with methylmercury (MeHg) at a dose of 0.02 mg per chicken/day and the group of chickens MeHg + HA rec...

this experiment was conducted to determine gene action for different traits of chickpea including days to 50% flowering, days to maturity, plant height, 100-seeds weight, number of pods per plant and seed yield. five genotypes including arman, hashem, ilc588, iccv2 and ilc3279 were selected and crossed with each other. four generations of each cross along with parents were evaluated in a random...