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Motivation to dust-bathe of laying hens housed in cages and in aviaries
New housing systems for commercial egg production, furnished cages and non-cage systems, should improve the welfare of laying hens. In particular, thanks to the presence of a litter area, these new housing systems are thought to satisfy the dust-bathing ...
S. Colson, C. Arnould, V. Michel
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This experiment studied the effect of DPP supplementation in the laying hens’ diet on the ovarian follicle development, hematological variables and hormonal profile of laying hens.
Mohamed Saleh +3 more
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An experiment was conducted to evaluate the dietary supplementation with lysozyme's impacts on laying performance, egg quality, biochemical analysis, body immunity, and intestinal morphology. A total of 720 Jingfen No.
Daniel Sindaye +14 more
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A trial was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary mannan level and β-mannanase supplementation on egg production performance, nutrient retention and blood metabolites of laying hens.
Myung H. Ryu +7 more
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Threonine requirements of laying hens
In order to determine the Thr requirement of laying hens, two experiments were conducted using laying performance and plasma Thr concentration as parameters. At 29 and 39 wk of age, 100 and 600 laying hens in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively, with average BW and high egg production rate, were randomized, housed in individual cages, and given free ...
Teru Ishibashi +5 more
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Effects of dietary methyl sulfonyl methane and selenium on laying performance, egg quality, gut health indicators, and antioxidant capacity of laying hens [PDF]
Objective This study investigated the effects of dietary methyl sulfonyl methane (MSM) and selenium (Se) on the laying performance, egg quality, gut health indicators, egg yolk Se content, and antioxidant markers in laying hens.
Yoo Bhin Kim +3 more
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The quality comparison of eggs laid by laying hens kept in battery cages and in a deep litter system
At present the laying hen rearing is transformed into alternative housing systems which include a deep litter system. As for the poultry nutrition, the replacement of animal protein with vegetable protein in poultry feed is applied.
V. Pištěková +4 more
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Tandem protein trans‐splicing (PTS) assembles a protein from three segments. Expanding this technology to individually treat cysteines in each segment, for example, for chemical labeling using thiol bioconjugation, the authors identify a second, highly efficient cysteine‐less split intein.
Christoph Humberg +3 more
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Bacillus coagulans (B. coagulans) on the productive performance, egg quality, blood biochemistry, antioxidant capacity, reproductive hormones, immune function, and intestinal morphology of laying ...
Xiaoming Wang +5 more
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Application of Malathion to the Laying Hen
Abstract INTRODUCTION THE increased use of pesticides in and around the poultry house has paralleled the increase in other areas of animal and plant agriculture in the United States. Still, the use of pesticides is not equally viewed by everyone.
James Ning, Shu Min Ning, W. W. Marion
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