A research study was conducted to evaluate the effects of three herbal extracts and an antibiotic –virginiamycinon growth performance, immune system, blood factors and selected intestinal bacterial populations in broiler chickens. A total of four hundred and eighty 1-day old male broiler chicks were assigned to the basal diet (control) , basal diet supplemented with 15 ppm of virginiamycin, bas...

A total of 240, one-day-old quail chicks (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were used to study the effects of Artichoke leaf meal (ALM) and vitamin E in diet on growth performance, ileal microbial populations and intestinal morphology in a 42-d trial. This experiment was performed as a completely randomized design with 4 replicates of 15 quails each, using a 4 × 2 factorial arrangement with diet and ...

ABSTRACT: Gingivitis is an infectious inflammatory process that generates local and systemic conditions, compromising the masticatory capacity of animals. Virginiamycin controls prevents gingivitis necrotizing in cattle. However, interaction effect with different sera salivary elements remain unknown. The present 6-month longitudinal study evaluated hematological, metabolic, buffering profiles ...

1. Indol, orally administered, causes anemia when certain deficient diets are fed. 2. The same amount of indol causes no considerable hematologic disturbance when normal diets are fed. 3. The anemia can be cured by supplementing the diet with liver extract, or by substituting a normal diet for the deficient diet. 4. Neither the diet alone nor the administration of indol alone produces marked an...

A total of 160 1-day-old ducklings (average initial body weight of 53 g), were used in a 42-d feeding trial to evaluate the effects of reducing nutrient density of diets, and supplementing the diets with a phytogenic blend (quillaja, anise, and thyme) on their growth, carcass quality, and nutrient digestibility. After checking body weight on d 1, the birds were sorted into pens with 5 birds/pen...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of different level of virginiamycin (VIR) on Growth performance, biochemistry, and hematology blood parameters broiler chickens. A total of 240 day-old broilers (Ross 308) were randomly allocated to four groups of 15 chicks each. Each four groups assigned in completely randomized design with four replicate. Experimental groups consisted ...

An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of supplementing Lori ewes with rumen-undegradable protein (RUP) in late pregnancy on their performance and that of their lambs. Milk yield and blood metabolite profile were measured. Forty pregnant ewes were used in a completely randomized design trial with four treatments: 1) a basal diet (control); 2) with a supplement of 5% fishmeal; 3)...