<p><strong>Background</strong>: Improvement of the Nigerian indigenous chickens is desirable because its socioeconomic important. <strong>Objective</strong>: To estimate heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations among body weight, length, wing length shank mating heavy ecotype cocks with light hens chickens. <strong>Methodology</strong>: The des...

This working note describes the system we used while participating in RusProfiling PAN 2017 shared task. The objective of the task is to identify the gender trait of the author from the author’s text written in the Russian Language. Taking this as a binary text classification problem, we have experimented to develop a representation scheme for target classes (called class vectors) from the text...

An investigation was conducted to study the haematological parameters of Nigerian local chicken using a total 100 chickens out which 30 were randomly selected for bleeding. The blood samples subjected laboratory analysis identify their haemoglobin contents, fragility and sedimentation rates as well red cell counts, white counts coagulation time. results indicated that content ranged from 63.82 ...

Three case reports describing the clinicopathological diagnosis and surgical management of subcutaneous lipomas in adult exotic and Nigerian indigenous chicken, as well as deep lipoma in exotic chickens are here presented. Two dead and one live chickens were presented to the Poultry Clinic, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, on the 15th October, 2016 and 13th...

banks play important roles in promoting national development. in order to provide efficient services and to perform their statutory roles effectively, banks are required to comply with established standards. in nigeria, the statement of accounting standards (sas), companies and allied matters act (cama) and the central bank of nigeria’s directives and regulations provide guidelines to banks in ...

Alpha % Growth hormone gene Nigerian indigenous chicken SNPs KR nema Chicken growth (cGH) is a polypeptide secreted by the pituitary gland which responsible for several functions such as tissue and reproduction in chickens. This study was conducted to characterize six genotypes using exon 1 intron regions of cGH sequences. One hundred thirty-four (134) chickens comprising Normal feather (19), N...