Over the past fifteen years, at least a dozen articles have appeared in the management and marketing literature describing and supporting international study tours as valuable educational experiences. These articles, however, have focused primarily on the design and implementation of such tours, with minimal emphasis given to outcome assessments or analysis. This limited attention to empirical ...

Trials were conducted to determine general semen characteristics of the male native chicken and effects of mating ratio, cock number in the flock, and breeder age on fertility in the native chicken flock. The results revealed that the mature native male had the semen volume of about 0.4 ml/bird/ejaculation, spermatocrit value of about 13.86-15.60%, semen concentration of about 7031-8001 million...

Over the past several years increasing of cellulites in some regions of the country has been reported. During August and September of 2005, 4.48% of total slaughtered broilers were condemned due to cellulitis in Masjid Soleiman slaughterhouse. Four out of 98 slaughtered flocks were infected to cellulitis. The condemnation rates in infected flocks were: flock 1: 1.55%, flock 2: 0.993%, flock 3: ...

The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of breeding season on the productivity and profitability of Barki flock. Simulation technique was used based on technical coefficients derived from statistical analysis of the basic data. Basic data utilized in this study were obtained from the accumulated records collected over 34 successive breeding seasons from 1972 to 2005 of Barki s...

Animal activity during the night period is of enormous importance, since it represents approximately half animals’ lives, and monitoring this makes possible to detect problems related well-being safety, allows us infer energy expenditure on basis their level. The present study analyzes a sheep dataset created validate non-invasive techniques that can be used at abnormal nocturnal activity. allo...

over the past several years increasing of cellulites in some regions of the country has been reported. during august and september of 2005, 4.48% of total slaughtered broilers were condemned due to cellulitis in masjid soleiman slaughterhouse. four out of 98 slaughtered flocks were infected to cellulitis. the condemnation rates in infected flocks were: flock 1: 1.55%, flock 2: 0.993%, flock 3: ...

During the course of this UROP, I allowed the flock of birds to communicate with programs and services using PVM, and wrote a rudimentary program to capture data from the flock of birds and the mental model positioning system to allow for comparisons. Doing this involved multiple steps. First, getting the flock to work. Currently there are three birds. They are configured according to the Flock...

This study was carried out to investigate the presence of Salmonella sp in flocks of white laying hens. In different farms, the transport boxes of twelve flocks were inspected at arrival for the presence of Salmonella. Four positive (A, B, L and M) and one negative (I) flocks were monitored at each four weeks using bacteriological examination of cecal fresh feces up to 52 weeks. Birds were also...

This study was carried out to demonstrate the effect of "Good Flock Management" on growth characteristics goats. Studies conducted in province Burdur Turkey under "Focused District Development Project". Goat flocks were Beşkavak village which selected as a model village, used study. The 2019 two goat flocks. birth weights male and female kids determined 4.04 kg 3.58 4.09 3.52 respectively for f...