TAC is the most commonly used medication in post transplantation maintenance immunosuppression therapy. TAC lipophilicity and its erratic oral absorption especially in the presence of food intake result in great intra- and interpatient pharmacokinetic variations. Complicated dosing and frequent required therapeutic monitoring is thought to be the main cause of...
Eight experiments, two with poults and six with chicks, were
undertaken to determine the requirement for supplemental folic acid
as related to protein level and major protein source. Protein levels
for chicks and poults were 21, and 28 or 28 and 32%, respectively.
Major protein sources were soybean meal, fish...
Several experiments were conducted with birds differing in body weight, conformation and sternal measurements to obtain information on whether it would be possible during short term selection to influence the shape of the sternum and, if so, what influence this would have on the amount and distribution of the breast...
A trial was conducted to determine the effects of increasing
levels of water restriction on body weight, feed consumption, feed
conversion and mortality of broiler chicks to eight weeks of age.
In addition, the effects of water restriction on water:feed ratios,
water consumption per pound of body weight and on...
Ten experiments were conducted to determine the vitamin requirements
of coturnix quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) to 2 weeks
of age using a glucose monohydrate-isolated soybean protein diet.
A preliminary study consisting of 2 separate experiments was
conducted to determine those vitamins essential to the growing
coturnix. This study revealed that...
A comparison of the various endocrine glands, in addition to
other anatomical measurements, was made on 19 normal and 21
dwarf 2-3-month-old females and 20 normal and 20 dwarf 7-13-month-old females of the White Leghorn breed. At both ages, dwarfs
weighed significantly less and had significantly shorter shanks than
normals....
Studies have been conducted with broilers and layers fed
manually formulated or linear programmed rations. Experiments
with broilers have involved the following: 1) determining the lysine
requirement with and without cottonseed meal in the ration, 2) formulating
by linear programming rations made up from different reported
amino acid mixtures and...
Hens were artificially inseminated at 8:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m.
and 11:50 p.m. Fertility was found to be significantly lower after
8:00 a.m. inseminations than after 4:00 p.m. or 11:50 p.m. inseminations
for 2 to 6 days, 2 to 9 days and 10 to 17 days following inseminations.
Slightly higher fertility...
A series of trials involving Coturnix quail, turkey and chicken
eggs was conducted to determine the effects on hatching performance
of varying amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide during storage in
plastic bags filled with nitrogen or air. Storage periods of 6 and 13
days were studied in tests involving...