Animal and Veterinary Sciences

Volume 3, Issue 5, September 2015

  • Poultry Meat Quality and Welfare as Affected by Organic Production System

    Talha ELsadig Abbas, Mohamed Elamin Ahmed

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 5-1, September 2015
    Pages: 1-4
    Received: 1 January 2015
    Accepted: 8 January 2015
    Published: 22 May 2015
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Poultry Welfare: Housing Systems and Feeding
    Abstract: Most of consumers preferring organic food accompanied emerge of environmental awareness in the last decades. Organic production system is considered as an important solution for the environment problems because it improves sustainable agriculture by using organic compounds and avoiding synthetic chemical ones, restricting intensive production and m... Show More
  • Effect of Dietary Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Supplementation on Performance, Carcass Characteristics and Some Metabolic Responses of Broilers

    Mohamed E. Ahmed, Talha E. Abbas, Mojahid A. Abdlhag, Dafaalla E. Mukhtar

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 5-1, September 2015
    Pages: 5-10
    Received: 10 May 2015
    Accepted: 10 May 2015
    Published: 22 May 2015
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    This article belongs to the Special Issue Poultry Welfare: Housing Systems and Feeding
    Abstract: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding graded levels of yeast on broiler performance, carcass characteristics and some hematological indices. One day old Hubbard broiler chicks (n=160) were randomly allocated to five dietary treatments. Each treatment consisted of 4 replicates of 8 broilers each. The dietary treatments contained... Show More