Abstract The objective of this study was to examine the effect Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) inoculant, NPK fertilizer, and organic fertilizers (chicken manure) on maize growth yield. This used a completely randomized design (CRD), with 8 fertilizer treatments, namely (1) control or without any (2) inoculation AMF, (3) (4) chicken manure (CM), (5) FMA + NPK, (6) CM, (7) CM (8) CM. Each tre...

Environmental conditions and bird health are important elements in assessment of animal welfare for laying hen housing systems, but limited information is available comparing different types of systems. Three types of laying hen houses caged high-rise, caged manure-belt, and cage-free floor-raised were monitored for temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide, and atmospheric ammonia during ...

Waste streams such as municipal wastewater and animal manure contain organic materials and nutrients that can be converted and recovered for bioenergy and renewable fertilizer production. In the first part of this thesis, the anaerobic co-digestion of dairy manure with kitchen waste and chicken fat was studied for the purpose of increasing biogas production. The methane yields of co-digestion s...

A greenhouse pot test was conducted to study the impacts of replacing mineral fertilizer with organic fertilizers for one full growing period on soil fertility, tomato yield and quality using soils with different tomato planting history. Four types of fertilization regimes were compared: (1) conventional fertilizer with urea, (2) chicken manure compost, (3) vermicompost, and (4) no fertilizer. ...

The quantity of poultry manure generated each year is large, and technologies that take advantage of the material should be explored. At the same time, increased emphasis on the reduction of mercury emissions from coal-fired electric power plants has resulted in environmental regulations that may, in the future, require application of activated carbons as mercury sorbents. The sorbents could be...

Two field experiments in split-plot design were carried out the winter season of 2014-2015 at Mansoura University Farm, Egypt, to investigate effect biochar, compost, and chicken manure with different rates mineral fertilization on soil pH, EC, organic matter content. Treatments manure, while studied fertilizer treatments (NPK) took 50,75,100, 125 %. The obtained results can be summarized in; a...

The knowledge about nutrient dynamics in the soil is pivotal for sustainable agriculture. A comprehensive research trial can retort unanswered questions. Dynamics of nutrients sourced from organic amendment types (chicken manure, dairy and MilorganiteTM) applied at different rates (0, 168, 336, 672 kg total N/ha) were monitored within below rootzone collard greens cultivated on a sandy loam Pra...

Host susceptibility to subgroup B, D, and E avian leukosis viruses (ALV) is determined by specific alleles of the chicken tvb locus. Recently, a chicken gene that encodes a cellular receptor, designated CAR1, specific for subgroups B and D ALV was cloned, and it was proposed that this gene was the s3 allele of tvb (J. Brojatsch, J. Naughton, M. M. Rolls, K. Zingler, and J. A. T. Young, Cell 87:...

The proportion of acidic purple soils has increased. Consequently, an effective method for amelioration is urgently needed. A 40 day incubation experiment using apple tree biochar, fermented sheep manure and chicken was conducted to assess the effects organic materials on acidity fertility soil. results showed that application increased soil pH decreased soil-exchangeable acidity. All treatment...