Poultry Industry Technical Articles
Article published the November 4, 2020:
1. Introduction
Similar to mammals, the liver in birds is involved in an array of metabolic and homeostatic functions and considered as a biochemical factory responsible for most of the synthesis, metabolism, ...
Article published the November 3, 2020:
INTRODUCTION
The huge increase in poultry production to meet the growing demand in Nigeria has led to the rise in antibiotic use, leading to a worrying increase in cases of antibiotic resistance diagnosed in a...
Article published the November 3, 2020:
INTRODUCTION
In China, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Peru, amongst other countries, the consumer demands chicken with yellow skin pigmentation. Since skin pigmentation is associated with health status and product f...
Article published the October 29, 2020:
1. Introduction
Small-scale poultry production is a very common practice in rural households around the world, and several studies have evidenced that these production systems have played and continue to play ...
Article published the October 20, 2020:
1. Introduction
Heat stress (HS) has undesired effects on the growth performance [1,2] and meat quality [3] of broiler chickens. During HS, chickens seek to dissipate unwanted and excess body heat by increasin...
Article published the October 20, 2020:
1. Introduction
Antimicrobial drugs have a prominent role within the veterinary and animal sciences as they have been used not only for therapeutic and preventive purposes, but also as growth promoters [1]. ...
Article published the October 16, 2020:
INTRODUCTION
Phosphorus is one of the essential minerals for all the living organisms including poultry. Phosphorus being a part of energy currency, plays a critical role in cellular metabolism as well as also...
Article published the October 16, 2020:
Anatomically, the main structural unit that conforms the liver are microscopic cells called hepatocytes. When hepatocytes are loaded with fat or pigments, as a consequence of some of the elements that we a...
Article published the October 9, 2020:
Avian coccidiosis is one of the most economically damaging infectious diseases affecting poultry. The etiologic agent is Eimeria spp., an obligate eukaryotic intracellular parasite belonging to the phylum Apico...
Article published the October 8, 2020:
Background
Infectious synovitis was first described and associated with mycoplasma infection in the USA during the early 1950’s [1] and the causative organism was designated later as Mycoplasma synoviae ...