Poultry is a well-known reservoir for Salmonella, hence numerous outbreaks associated with poultry meat/products and eggs have been reported to date. This study aimed determine the pooled prevalence, serotype diversity antibiotic resistance profiles of Salmonella in meat egg Turkey. For this purpose, international national electronic databases were searched using appropriate keywords English Tu...

Although the content of intramuscular fat (IMF) influences significantly meat quality, it can be estimated only after the slaughter of animals. Variants of the H-FABP gene were suggested as candidate genes influencing the variability of IMF. The effect of H-FABP - HinfI polymorphism on the content of IMF, backfat thickness, the weight and percentages of major meat parts and of the leg in carcas...

Betaine is donor of methyl groups and can partially replace methionine in diets for this purpose. The objective of this study was to evaluate three sources of betaine in partial substitution of methionine supplement in broiler diets. The Cobb-500 broiler chickens were allocated in a completely randomized experimental design with 5 treatments and 7 replicates of 49 birds each. The positive contr...

Determining the genotypes of CAPN3 gene and studying its relationship to some economic characteristics broiler chickens, which included weekly weights, final live weight, carcass weight parts in addition correlation coefficient for important Ross characteristics. 308 100 chicks were bred 35 days taken. Primary birds weighed all numbered. Genotypes determined by analyzing nitrogenous base sequen...

368 blood and Carcass randomly sampled from slaughtered animals for detection Toxoplasmosis. The blood samples were examined for existence Infection by serological method (Dye test) and the tissue samples from different parts of carcass including skeletal muscle, diaphragm, heart, liver and lymphnode, which ground in an electric grinder and digested by pepsin. Bioassay technique and inoculated...

Classification of local chicken breeds based on their phenotypic and genetic characteristics is of interest. There is a risk of extinction for the local domestic breeds of chicken, so a great attention and efforts must go to the local genotypes in all areas of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. However, many researches inferred that Saudi local chickens exhibited a large variation in body shape and f...

In most parts of the world, male pigs that are destined for the market are physically castrated very soon after birth in order to reduce the risk of boar taint. However, entire male pigs are more efficient and deposit less fat than barrows, particularly at high slaughter weights. Also, animal welfare activists are lobbying for a cessation of physical castration in many parts of the world, parti...