Two experiments were conducted to try and
differentiate variations in the levels of total plasma
protein and plasma protein fractions from three lines of
turkeys, each with distinct muscle morphological
characteristics--Deep Pectoral Myopathy (DPM), Hereditary
Muscular Dystrophy (MDY), and a Broad Breasted Bronze
control (J).
Ten day old poults from...
Several experiments involving broilers and laying hens
were conducted with the primary goal of evaluating the
feeding value of Canola meal (CM) in both broiler and
laying hen rations. A secondary goal was to study the
growth response of broilers receiving higher
concentrations of CM in their starter diets to...
Three experiments were conducted to determine if a new variety of
triticale (Flora) would maintain seminal production of Medium White (MW)
breeder toms and to ascertain the minimal dietary crude protein (CP)
required by breeder toms. In Experiment 1, 4 dietary treatments with 10
males each, were fed ad libitum...
The reproductive performance of four strains of broiler breeder
males (BBM) were compared when housed in individual cages from 22 to
56 weeks of age (WOA), and fed Asi libitum 7% crude protein (CP) diets
with 1985, 2424, 2868 kilocalories (kcal) metabolizable (M) energy (E) per
kg of feed and...
Five experiments were conducted with commercial broilers to study the effects of feeding yellow pea (Pisum sativum L. var. Miranda) diets with and without supplementation. Mean body weights and feed conversion for broilers fed 0, 25, 50 and 65% of soybean crude protein (CP) substituted with yellow pea (YP) protein...
Five experiments were conducted to investigate the
effect of dietary fish meal on the incidence of Sudden Death
Syndrome (SDS) in broiler chickens. Growth, feed
efficiency, total mortality and mortality due to SDS were
evaluated. Necropsy examination was performed on broilers
suspected of dying from SDS. Liver lipid and fatty...
Three distinct studies using an ethidium bromidedigitonin
fluorometric assay were conducted to determine
if the fertilizing ability of individually caged broiler
breeder males (BBM) could be enchanced by nutrition,
breeding and semen extender viscosity.
The first study evaluated the effects on the
spermatozoal quality of BBM by feeding corn-soybean meal...
Dekalb XL Single Comb White Leghorn pullets were
immunized against poly-L-glutamic acid (PGA) complexed with
methylated bovine serum albumin (MBSA) at 9 weeks of age.
Pullets immunized against MBSA as well as non-immunized
pullets served as controls. At 18 weeks of age, pullets
were moved from a floor pen into...
Two experiments were conducted to determine the
effects of riboflavin and pantothenic acid deficiency
on the production of clubbed down embryos in Single
Combed White Leghorn (SCWL) and Rhode Island Red (RIR)
hens.
In experiment 1, sixteen SCWL and eight RIR hens
were assigned to one of four diets calculated...