The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of particle size of a dietary Ca source on egg production and eggshell quality when added to hens’ diets that have different levels of calcium. The experiment was carried out on 216 ISA Brown hens (25 to 70 weeks of age), allocated to 9 groups of 12 replicates (cages), with two birds in each cage. A 3 × 3 factorial arrangement was used, wit...

Serial assessments of neurocognitive functioning in athletes with concussion are commonly used for return to play decisions. This study provides reliable change indices (RCIs) for computerized tests from 40 NCAA Division I collegiate athletes that suffered a sports-related concussion. The normative data that resulted from the RCIs and subsequent analyses of differences between improved and not ...

Adult Northern bobwhite were used to test the hypothesis that dietary methionine levels recommended by the NRC for breeding quail are excessive for wild bobwhite. We tested the hypothesis by comparing immunocompetence, reproductive performance, and chick viability of Northern bobwhite hens fed diets containing low (0.31%), moderate (0.39%), or high (0.47%) concentrations of methionine. Chick vi...

Quail weight and laying rate are very important parameters for quail breeders. This study aims to evaluate the growth egg-laying performance of quails from different crosses in order consider an improvement through feeding. Thus, intra inter were made between light strain heavy strain. To assess performance, it is used each crossing result, 450 one day old 120 females aged 42 days. These reared...

In this study, addled and viable Red-tailed Hawk eggs were compared in terms of pesticide levels, egg and eggshell parameters, and shell ultrastructure as determined by scanning electron microscopy. These values were then used to compare actual measurements against egg and eggshell indices commonly reported in the literature. Addled eggs of Red-tailed Hawks were of greater length, weight and vo...

Predator-induced changes in physiology and behaviour may negatively affect a prey's birth rate. Evidence of such indirect predator effects on prey demography remains scarce in birds and mammals despite invertebrate and aquatic studies that suggest ignoring such effects risks profoundly underestimating the total impact of predators. We report the first experimental demonstration of indirect pred...

iran is one of the most important rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) producing countries in the world and fingering production is the key factor for this industry. the present experiment was conducted to determine the role of the coelomic fluid in artificial fertilization and to study the interactive effect of different brood fish coelomic fluid on fertilization process during 60 min storage a...

Local differences in the electrogastrographic (EGG) indices were studied. The indices include the spectral frequency, the instability factor (IF) of the spectral frequency, and the power content in addition to the usual power amplitude of 5 frequency groups as follows: the 1-cpm group (0-2.4), the 3-cpm group (2.5-4.9), the 6-cpm group (5.0-7.4), the 8-cpm group (7.5-9.9), and the 10-cpm group ...