this study was performed to determine the effect of copper on growth performance, blood metabolites and claw health in young holstein bulls in a humid area in north of iran. one hundred and two young holstein bulls (initial body weight= 377.3±17.1 kg) were randomly allocated to two treatments in a completely randomized design for 56 days. the treatment groups received: (1) the basal diet of no ...

in the past decade, a global demand for products from organic agriculture has increased rapidly. milk quality is of major interest for all parties. therefore, the objective of this study was to compare cow performance and product quality in conventional and organic system. twenty holstein dairy cows were allotted to one of 2 diet groups, which including: a conventional diet (con), and an organi...

this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of portulaca oleracea (po),medicinal plant, on performance, egg traits, blood biochemical and immunity parameters of laying hens. one hundred eighty hi-line (w-36 strain) mature laying hens 65 up to 76 weeks of age were allotted in a completely randomized design consisting of 5 treatments and 3 replicates (12 birds per re...

this study was conducted to determine the effect of dietary turmeric rhizome powder (trp) as a natural antioxidant, and soybean oil, canola oil and tallow on lipid metabolism, blood metabolites, immune system, and antioxidant status of broiler chickens before (bhs, 28 d) and after exposure to heat stress (ahs, 42 d). seven hundred and ninety two d-old male arian broilers were randomly allotted ...

In the past decade, a global demand for products from organic agriculture has increased rapidly. Milk quality is of major interest for all parties. Therefore, the objective of this study was to compare cow performance and product quality in conventional and organic system. Twenty Holstein dairy cows were allotted to one of 2 diet groups, which including: a conventional diet (CON), and an organi...

Evaluation of Different Level Dietary Chromium Picolinate on Performance, Egg Quality, Some Blood Metabolite in Japanese Laying Quail

Metabolite profiling has been established as a multiparallel strategy for relative quantification of a mixture of compounds or compound classes using chromatography and universal detection technologies (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry [GC-MS], liquid chromatography-MS). Despite its origins dating back to the late 1960s, it was only in the 1980s that its use was acknowledged to diagnose met...