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The Nitrogen Contained in Carbonized Poultry Litter is not Plant Available
Open Agriculture, 2018 Pyrolysis of biomass, reduces its volume, mass, odour, and potential pathogens, while concentrating nutrients in the resulting biochar. However, the plant availability of nutrients in particular of nitrogen remains largely unknown.
Steiner Christoph +3 more
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Impacts of poultry house environment on poultry litter bacterial community composition.
PLoS ONE, 2011 Viral and bacterial pathogens are a significant economic concern to the US broiler industry and the ecological epicenter for poultry pathogens is the mixture of bedding material, chicken excrement and feathers that comprises the litter of a poultry house.
Michael D Dumas +6 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.As human‐modified landscape and climate changes proliferate, maintaining biodiversity and understanding the function and quality of available habitat is imperative. As anurans (frogs/toads) such as Pseudacris crucifer, can be an indicator species of habitat quality and ecosystem productivity, studying the anuran community in a mixed‐land use region ...
Brian C. Kron, Karen V. Root
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Use of probiotics to replace antibiotics for broilers
Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2012 This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of supplementation of probiotics (Lactobacillus acidophilus, Enterococcus faecium and Bifidubacterium bifidum) and antibiotics (flavomicina and staquinol) on diets for broilers from 1 to 42 days of age ...
Ricardo Vianna Nunes +5 more
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations
Insect Science, EarlyView.This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean +6 more
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Study on the Use of Dried Poultry Litter in the Camel's Ration [PDF]
Veterinary Research Forum, 2010 A feeding trial of 120 days duration was conducted to study the effect of replacing 20 and 25 % of camel ration by poultry litter (PL) on the performance and some blood biochemical parameters.
Abbas Seif Fathy, Abdel-Baset Nasr Sayed
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Structured population models are parameterized to accurately project expected population sizes, stage/state distributions and population growth rates, but they also predict the variation in outcomes among individuals, such as the variance and skewness of lifetime reproductive output (LRO) and lifespan, the probability of never reproducing, and
Stephen P. Ellner +8 more
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A comparison of three modelling approaches for quantitative risk assessment using the case study of Salmonella spp. in poultry meat. [PDF]
, 2005 A comprehensive review of both the scientific literature and industry practices was undertaken to identify and quantify all sources of contamination throughout the entire poultry meat production chain by Salmonella spp.
D'Souza, J. +9 more
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Odour Abatement of Poultry Litter using Odour Control Products
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2012 Poultry litter is often highlighted to be a major source of odours associated with emissions from poultry production sheds and the post-treatment of used poultry shed litter.
S. Maruthai Pillai +3 more
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Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sheep production contributes to a secure and diverse food and fibre supply in the United States, with growing ethnic diversity strengthening demand. Katahdin is a composite hair‐type sheep breed developed in the United States that has become the most popular breed in many regions of the country and the first one to have genomic selection ...
Alejandra Toro Ospina +6 more
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