C.L. Bailie, M.E.E. Ball, N.E. O’Connell
The aim of this study was to assess the effect of natural light and straw bales on activity levels and leg health in commercial broiler chickens. Houses containing ∼23 000 broiler chickens were assigned to one of four treatments in a 2 × 2 factorial design. Treatments involved two levels of access t...
Md. Bazlur Rahman Mollah, Md. Al Mehedi Hasan, Md. Abdus Salam, Md. Ashraf Ali
Computer assisted digital image analysis was performed to investigate the possibility of estimating body weight of live broiler. To achieve the stated objective, 100 Arbor acres broiler chicks were reared under standard rearing condition and 1200 digital images were captured from 20 randomly selecte...
Youssef A. Attia, Md. Tanvir Rahman, Md. Jannat Hossain, Shereen Basiouni et al.
Poultry farming is a significant source of revenue generation for small farmers in developing countries. It plays a vital role in fulfilling the daily protein requirements of humans through meat and eggs consumption. The recently emerged pandemic Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) impacts the poultry...
M. Saiful Islam, NS Lucky, M. R. Islam, Abdul Ahad et al.
An experiment was conducted to study the hematological parameters in Fayoumi, Assil and Local Chickens of different ages reared in Sylhet region. 250 chickens of three breeds (100 Fayoumi, 50 Assil and 100 Local) were tested at different ages (1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months) to observe the hematological p...
Kazi Rafiq, Muhammad Tofazzal Hossain, Rokeya Ahmed, Md. Mehedi Hasan et al.
The poultry industry has grown so fast alongside the irrational use of antibiotics to maximize profit and make the production cost-effective during the last few decades. The rising and indiscriminate use of antibiotics might result in the deposition of residues in poultry food products and in the de...
Md. Mahmudul Alam, MA Hashem, MM Rahman, MM Hossain et al.
The research was conducted to study the effect of heat stress on behavior, some physiological and blood parameters with nine goats of almost similar in age, sex and weight into three groups. Three groups were divided as zero hour (T0), four hours (T4) and eight hours (T8) heat exposure. Temperature...
Morsheda Nasrin, M.N.H. Siddiqi, Md. Abdul Masum, Md. Abdul Wares
We studied anatomy and histology of different segments of the digestive tract in postnatal growing broiler chickens with regard to their location, shape, size and weight. A group of four chickens, each at day 1 (D1), days 14 (D14) and days 28 (D28), total 12, were killed, their digestive tracts were...
MRA Redoy, AAS Shuvo, Long Cheng, Mohammad Al-Mamun
There is a wide range of feed additives deliberately designed to be used in sheep diets that can improve production performance. Whereas herbal supplementation is gaining popularity not only for improving sheep productivity and mutton quality but also for safe application without any harmful residua...
Hafizur Rahman, MM Hossain, S. M. E. Rahman, M. R. Amin et al.
This study was performed to explore the deterioration of physicochemical quality of beef hind limb during frozen storage at −20℃, affected by repeated freeze-thaw cycles. The effects of three successive freeze-thaw cycles on beef hind limb were investigated comparing with unfrozen beef muscle for 80...
M. A. Islam, Masahide Nishibori
The present review work aims at determining the potential usefulness of indigenous naked neck (INN) chicken (D. Nana) for poultry production in a hot-humid climate. INN chicken has good heat dissipation mechanism and well adaptive to harsh tropical environment and nutrition, and is highly resistant ...
MN Haque, Rakhi Chowdhury, KMS Islam, MA Akbar
Propionic acid (PA) is a fungicide and bactericide, registered to control fungi and bacteria in stored grains, hay, grain storage areas, poultry litter, and drinking water for livestock and poultry. European Union (EU) certifies PA as the great of grain preserver and most efficient in controlling Sa...
Tasneem Imam, Justine S. Gibson, Mohammad Foysal, Shetu B. Das et al.
Commercial poultry production is growing rapidly in Bangladesh to address the increasing demand for poultry meat and eggs. Challenges faced by producers include the occurrence of poultry diseases, which are usually treated or controlled by antimicrobials. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 57 ...
Gordon Allan, Steven Krakowka, John Ellis, Catherine Charreyre
Porcine circoviruses (PCVs) belong to the genus Circovirus, family Circoviridae, and are the smallest non-enveloped, single stranded, negative sense, circular DNA viruses that replicate autonomously in mammalian cells. Two types of PCV have been characterised, PCV1 and PCV2 and these two viruses sho...
A. K. M. Humayun Kober, Muhammad Shahid Riaz Rajoka, Hafiza Mahreen Mehwish, Julio Villena et al.
Over the past decade, the use of probiotics as feed supplements in animal production has increased considerably due to the ban on antibiotic growth promoters in livestock. This review provides an overview of the current situation, limitation, and prospects for probiotic formulations applied to lives...
AKFH Bhuiyan, Mohammad Shamsul Alam Bhuiyan, G Deb
Summary Livestock, especially poultry, is a promising sector for poverty reduction in Bangladesh. Approximately 140 millions chickens are scattered throughout 68 000 villages in the country, mostly of indigenous, non-descript type. The production system for indigenous chickens is smallholder backyar...