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Assessment of the effectiveness of head only and back-of-the-head electrical stunning of chickens [PDF]

, 2005
The study assesses the effectiveness of reversible head-only and back-of-the-head electrical stunning of chickens using 130–950 mA per bird at 50 Hz ...
A. Björklund, B. Jackson, D. Karger, G. Chen, H. Whitney, J.E. Hopcroft, T. Feder, T. Ibaraki   +7 more
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The Differential Phosphorylation-Dependent Signaling and Glucose Immunometabolic Responses Induced during Infection by Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Heidelberg in Chicken Macrophage-like cells

Microorganisms, 2020
Salmonella is a burden to the poultry, health, and food safety industries, resulting in illnesses, food contamination, and recalls. Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica Enteritidis (S.
Famatta Perry, Casey Johnson, Bridget Aylward, Ryan J. Arsenault   +3 more
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Review of chicken productive and reproductive performance and its challenges in Ethiopia

All Life, 2022
This review gathered information about the reproduction and production performance of indigenous, exotic chickens and hybrids in Ethiopia. The indigenous chicken egg production performance under the backyard system within the ranges of 30–80 eggs per hen
Yizengaw Mengesha, Ewonetu Kebede, Ashenafi Getachew   +2 more
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One-way trip: Influenza virus' adaptation to gallinaceous poultry may limit its pandemic potential [PDF]

, 2014
We hypothesise that some influenza virus adaptations to poultry may explain why the barrier for human-to-human transmission is not easily overcome once the virus has crossed from wild birds to chickens.
Alexander, Baigent, Banks, Banks, Belser, Blumenkrantz, Bosch, Brass, Bullough, Butt, Castrucci, Cauldwell, Chan, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Chutinimitkul, Cohen, Connor, Costa, Cotter, Cowling, Cox, De Jong, Dorigatti, DuBois, Elderfield, England, Everitt, Gabbard, Galloway, Gambaryan, Gambaryan, Gao, Garten, Handel, Harvey, Hatta, Hay, Herfst, Hoffmann, Imai, Jia, Karron, Keleta, Killingley, Koerner, Koopmans, Krenn, Kuchipudi, Li, Li, Lin, Lin, Linster, Luke, Maines, Matrosovich, Matrosovich, Matrosovich, Matrosovich, Matsuoka, Munier, Neumann, O'Donnell, Pappas, Peiris, Perdue, Reed, Roberts, Robinson, Roche, Rogers, Rott, Russell, Russell, Schrauwen, Shelton, Shi, Skehel, Smeenk, Sorrell, Sorrell, Steinhauer, Stevens, Suguitan, Sun, Tellier, Tharakaraman, Thoennes, Tumpey, Vines, Wan, Wang, Washington, Webster, Wei, Xiong, Yen, Zhang, Zhou, Zhou   +101 more
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Dietary Supplementation of Probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus Modulates Cholesterol Levels, Immune Response, and Productive Performance of Laying Hens

Animals, 2020
This study examines the effect of dietary supplementation with Lactobacillus acidophilus (LA) on the cholesterol levels, immune response, and productive performance of laying hens. A total of 216, 40-week-old, commercial Hy-Line brown chicken layers were
Abdulaziz A. Alaqil, Ahmed O. Abbas, Hossam S. El-Beltagi, Hanaa. K. Abd El-Atty, Gamal M. K. Mehaisen, Eman S. Moustafa   +5 more
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Heart ventricular histology and microvasculature together with aortic histology and elastic lamellar structure: A comparison of a novel dual-purpose to a broiler chicken line [PDF]

, 2019
The use of dual-purpose chickens is a strategy to avoid killing one-day-old male chicks of egg laying lines. Lohmann Dual (LD) is a novel dual-purpose chicken line created by the crossbreeding of layer and broiler lines.
Al Masri, S., Alshamy, Z., Hafez, H.M., Harash, G., Hünigen, H., Plendl, J., Richardson, K.C., Yildirim, A.   +7 more
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Comparison of different dietary sources of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on immune response in broiler chickens [PDF]

, 2020
The study aims to research the effects of varied dietary sources of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on the immune response in broiler chickens with stress on natural killer (NK) cell activity. Diets supplemented with one of the four sources of n-3
Al-Khalaifah, H., Al-Nasser, A., Givens, D. I., Rymer, C., Yaqoob, P.   +4 more
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Strategies for Obtaining and Pruning Imputed Whole-Genome Sequence Data for Genomic Prediction

Frontiers in Genetics, 2019
Genomic prediction with imputed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data is an attractive approach to improve predictive ability with low cost. However, high accuracy has not been realized using this method in livestock.
Shaopan Ye, Ning Gao, Rongrong Zheng, Zitao Chen, Jinyan Teng, Xiaolong Yuan, Hao Zhang, Zanmou Chen, Xiquan Zhang, Jiaqi Li, Zhe Zhang   +10 more
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Pathogenicity of West Nile Virus Lineage 1 to German Poultry

Vaccines, 2020
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne virus that originates from Africa and at present causes neurological disease in birds, horses, and humans all around the globe.
Cora M. Holicki, Friederike Michel, Ana Vasić, Christine Fast, Martin Eiden, Cristian Răileanu, Helge Kampen, Doreen Werner, Martin H. Groschup, Ute Ziegler   +9 more
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Passaging of a Newcastle disease virus pigeon variant in chickens results in selection of viruses with mutations in the polymerase complex enhancing virus replication and virulence [PDF]

, 2010
Some Newcastle disease virus (NDV) variants isolated from pigeons (pigeon paramyxovirus type 1; PPMV-1) do not show their full virulence potential for domestic chickens but may become virulent upon spread in these animals.
Dortmans, J.C.F.M., Koch, G., Peeters, B.P.H., Rottier, P.J.M.   +3 more
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