Hasan S.A. Jawad
Deptartment of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Lokman Hakim Bin Idris
Deptartment of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Saad A. Naji
Department of Animal Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Al-Qadisiya, Iraq
MdZuki Bin Bakar
Deptartment of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Azhar Bin Kassim
Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
ABSTRACT
In an experiment with 120 Akar Putra chicken, the partial uropygialectomy effects at 4 ages on production performance was determined. The experiment comprised 5 treatments (24 chicken/treatment), with 3 replicates for each (8 chicken/replicate). Experimental treatments consist of a control treatment T1, partial ablation of uropygial gland (uropygialecomy) were applied on T2, T3, T4 and T5 treatments at 3, 4, 5 and 6 weeks, respectively. Body weight, weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio for males and females were recorded weekly. The results revealed remarkable significant (p<0.01) enhancing for partial uropygialectomy treatments than control group in all of males and females body weight, weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion ratio measurements. Variation ratio of production performance parameters for Partial Uropygialectomy treatments than control group was calculated to support the results. Best results were indicated in T2 treatment when partial uropygialectomy performed at week 3.
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Hasan S.A. Jawad, Lokman Hakim Bin Idris, Saad A. Naji, MdZuki Bin Bakar and Azhar Bin Kassim, 2015. Partial Ablation of Uropygial Gland Effect on Production Performance of Akar Putra Chicken. International Journal of Poultry Science, 14: 213-221.
DOI: 10.3923/ijps.2015.213.221
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijps.2015.213.221
DOI: 10.3923/ijps.2015.213.221
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijps.2015.213.221
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