the best method of fish breeding is the isolation of pure lines having high-producing hybrids. the decline in heterosis (dih) resulted from inbreeding, maternal effects, general combining ability (gca) and specific combining ability (sca) on reproductive traits (e.g., egg production, number of hatched egg, and hatchability of pure lines and crosses) of tiger, green, and albino barbie hybrids we...

this survey was done for constructing an egg sorting machine which could sort white eggs from fertilized eggs. egg sorting machine was constructed based on physiological properties of trout egg. fertilized eggs have much more elasticity than white or non-hatched eggs. so the hatched eggs will fly back if were hit to a solid surface. the machine divided to 5 parts including mechanical, electrica...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of in ovo injection (IOI) of calcium carbonate nano-particles (CCN) on post-hatch bone and blood parameters and performance of broiler chickens. Fertile eggs (n=400) were distributed into 4 groups of 100 eggs. On the first day of incubation, 2 groups were injected with 0.5 mL of either 100 or 200 ppm CCN/egg dissolved in normal saline and two...

biological studies of helicella candeharica in citrus orchards in west of mazandaran province (tonekabon region) was conducted during 2004-2005. this species has one generation in a year and mating and egg laying were lasted from august to september. under natural conditions of tonekabon, the snail showed to hibernate as larvae and adult at the depth of 2.5-3 cm in the soil. larvae and adults w...

The gonadsomatic index (GSI) of mottled skate was the highest in April, GSI and HSI showed a reverse phase for its reproductive cycle. The fish had one pair of egg capsules, having 1 to 7 fertilized eggs, and spawned all the year round. When surveying the reproductive characteristics of females over 63 ㎝ in disc width, we found the spawning peak was between April to June, and the appearance rat...

ABsT•CT.--Variation in the water, lipid, and nonlipid dry matter of eggs and newly hatched chicks of the Laughing Gull and Japanese Quail was related to variation in the size of the egg. Egg contents of the two species were, on average, very similar. Yolk size varied in direct proportion to egg size, but in the quail large eggs contained disproportionately low levels of lipid and high levels of...