The present study was conducted on blood cells of thirty healthy domestic fowl, guinea fowl and pigeon, ten birds of each group. Lymphocyte showed strongly positive reaction in fowl while moderate in guinea fowl and weak in pigeon in the form of black-brown patches when blood smears were stained...

Melanin is the key functional ingredient of silky fowl that has nutritional and medicinal benefits. Chishui silky fowl has unique black feather, black skin, green shell egg and black claws, while the melanin deposition of main tissues in the Chishui silky fowl remains unknown. This study aimed to...

The present study was conducted on blood cells of thirty healthy domestic fowl, guinea fowl and pigeon, ten birds of each group. Significantly higher length of erythrocytes as observed in guinea fowl followed by pigeon and domestic fowl. On the otherhand width of erythrocytes was higher in fowl...

This study is part of a series of studies on the possibility of substituting alternative protein source supplements to the diet of guinea fowl in order to improve food security in the fight against poverty on the African Continent. This study assesses the identified sensory characteristics of...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of different dietary levels of crude protein on growth performance, carcass traits, body crude protein content, meat quality, serum and liver biochemical indices of different genders silky fowl during the fattening phase, to provide...

Introduction: Performance of native fowl can be improved by making changes in feeding, rearing and health issues. Genetic improvement of these breeds can be achieved through the breeding programs such as selection, crossbreeding, or both. Selection programs may be time consuming but implementing...

Birds are valuable and precious for many purposes. They are individually representing greatly inhabited life forms and also super indicators of fitness of various ecosystems. Galliform birds (Aves: Galliformes) cover up a most important part of our poultry industry including domestic fowls, Gallus...

This study investigated an adenovirus infection in two consecutive breeding flocks in the same poultry hall. Thirty-six thousand one-day-old chickens of the ROSS 308 hybrid broiler type were kept together in one hall. The chickens in the first breeding flock during fattening did not show any...

Objective: To study the residue elimination rule of enrofloxacin soluble powder in various tissues of Yugan black-bone fowl. Methods: Eighty-eight 110-day-old healthy Yugan black-bone fowls were randomly divided into 11 groups and given 0.75 g/L drinking water continuously for 5 days. Samples of...

This study on the morphological features of bones of the helmeted guinea fowl (Numidia meleagridis) specifically the axial skeleton was conducted for documentation and valuable information on differences when compared with other species of the same order. Ten (10) Helmeted guinea fowls (5 females...