From the jungle fowl to highly performing chickens: Are we reaching limits?

M Tixier-Boichard - World's Poultry Science Journal, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The cumulated effects of domestication and subsequent selection by humans have led to
impressive diversification of the chicken at the phenotypic as well as the genome level. In …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analysis to predict the effects of temperature stress on meat quality of poultry

EM Leishman, J Ellis, N van Staaveren, S Barbut… - Poultry science, 2021 - Elsevier
Temperature stress (TS) is a significant issue in poultry production, which has implications
for animal health and welfare, productivity, and industry profitability. Temperature stress …

Physiological responses of slow-growing chickens under diurnally cycling temperature in a hot environment

T Mutibvu, M Chimonyo, TE Halimani - Revista Brasileira de Ciência …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
Free-range chicken production has significantly increased in recent years and it often entails
exposing birds to cyclic environmental conditions. The objective of the current study was to …

An association of CEP78, MEF2C, VPS13A and ARRDC3 genes with survivability to heat stress in an F2 chicken population

H Asadollahi, R Vaez Torshizi, A Ehsani… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Heat stress is a serious problem in the poultry industry. An effective tool for improving heat
tolerance can be genomic selection based on single nucleotide polymorphisms. This study …

Smart chicken farming: monitoring system for temperature, ammonia levels, feed in chicken farms

R Budiarto, NK Gunawan… - IOP Conference Series …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, embedded system technology was implemented in the supervision system of
chicken farms. This system works by utilizing sensors that are used to collect data on …

Approaches using genome-wide association studies and heat stress resistance related genes in chicken–a review

H Asadollahi, M Bagheri - Animal Science Papers and Reports, 2024 - sciendo.com
Heat stress-induced reduction in feed intake in an annoyance of the poultry industry. High
environmental temperature is a serious stress affecting economic and biological efficiency of …

Wooden breast in commercial broilers associated with mortality, dorsal recumbency, and pulmonary disease

S Gall, MM Suyemoto, HML Sather… - Avian …, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Occurrence of mortality, wooden breast, and pulmonary disease in broiler chickens during
the last 16 days of production in a teaching flock of 4000 commercial broilers was …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of dietary supplementation of phytogenic feed additive on performance traits, serum neopterin, and cutaneous basophil hypersensitivity response in …

S Marimuthu, R Selvam, A Kaninathan… - Journal of Advanced …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: The trial was aimed at assessing the effect of phytogenic feed additive (PFA), a
natural adaptogen, on growth performance, serum neopterin level, and cutaneous basophil …

Temperature-humidity index and thermal comfort of broilers in humid tropics.

OO Omomowo - Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal, 2021 - cigrjournal.org
In improving broiler welfare and ensuring better productivity thermal comfort of broilers is of
utmost interest. To estimate the thermal comfort of broilers, the THI model was developed …

The occurrence of deep pectoral myopathy in broilers and associated changes in breast meat quality

S Yalcin, S Ozkan, MC Acar, O Meral - British poultry science, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Two experiments were conducted to determine the effect of slaughter weight on the
incidence and intensity of deep pectoral myopathy (DPM) of M. pectoralis minor (p. minor …