effect of intermittent mash-pellet feeding programs on broilers performance, ascites susceptibility and economic yield was studied using 480 broilers in six treatments and five replicates of 16 chicks per pen were used in a completely randomized design. treatments including: 1. mash feed, 2. heated-mash feed, 3. mash feed in starter and grower and pellet feed in finisher, 4. mash feed in starte...

Pulmonary hypertension syndrome (ascites) is a metabolic disorder in fast-growing broilers. Inconsistency of oxygen requirement and the cardiovascular ability make the birds susceptible to ascites. Incidence of ascites was accompanied by right ventricular hypertrophy, fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity and finally mortality. The objective of the current study was to review the genetic b...

pulmonary hypertension syndrome (ascites) is a metabolic disorder in fast-growing broilers. inconsistency of oxygen requirement and the cardiovascular ability make the birds susceptible to ascites. incidence of ascites was accompanied by right ventricular hypertrophy, fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity and finally mortality. the objective of the current study was to review the genetic b...

The increasing susceptibility of broiler chickens to ascites syndrome has coincided with a continuing genetic and nutritional improvement in their feed efficiency and growth rate. Ascites is multifactorial and interactions between environmental and endogenous factors play a particularly important role. The selection of fast growing broilers for high feed efficiency, which is characterized by hy...

this study was conducted to compare susceptibility of six different strains of male broilers to ascites syndrome. in this experiment, 612 one-day-old male broiler chicks from five international hybrids (e.g, arbor acres, cobb 500, hubbard, lohmann, and ross 508) and an iranian hybrid (arian) were used. growth performance, ascites mortality ratio, the ratio of right ventricle to total ventricles...