•Journal•ISSN: 0032-5791
Poultry Science
Oxford University Press
About: Poultry Science is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Broiler & Feed conversion ratio. It has an ISSN identifier of 0032-5791. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 27457 publications have been published receiving 662849 citations.
Topics: Broiler, Feed conversion ratio, Biology, Medicine, Yolk
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TL;DR: The intestinal microbiota, epithelium, and immune system provide resistance to enteric pathogens, and recent data suggest that resistance is not solely due to the sum of the components, but that cross-talk between these components is also involved in modulating this resistance.
1,299 citations
TL;DR: The biological basis for antibiotic effects on animal growth efficiency will consider effects on intestinal microbiota and effects on the host animal and will use the germ-free animal to illustrate effects of the conventional microflora.
1,239 citations
TL;DR: In the present study, both plant extracts improved the digestibility of the feeds for broilers and the effect of different additives on digestibility improved the performance slightly, but this effect was not statistically significant.
945 citations
TL;DR: The European support to recommendations of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Organization for Animal Health for a ban on antimicrobial use in animal feeds is expected to favor other countries also phase out these substances out.
933 citations
TL;DR: Hematological studies on chickens have long been hampered by the lack of a quick, readily applicable, and quantitative method for the enumeration of the leucocytes due to the fact that the nuclei of bird erythrocytes are not destroyed in the usual procedure for mammalian blood cell enumeration and therefore cannot be distinguished from theLeucocytes.
921 citations