The naked neck gene in the domestic chicken: a genetic strategy to mitigate the impact of heat stress in poultry production—a review

E Fernandes, A Raymundo, LL Martins, M Lordelo… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Temperature and humidity are environmental factors with significant
impact on animals. This challenge is not exclusive to tropical countries, as climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Using major genes to mitigate the deleterious effects of heat stress in poultry: An updated review

MM Fathi, A Galal, LM Radwan, OK Abou-Emera… - Poultry Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Acceleration of global warming has emerged as one of the biggest environmental
challenges facing poultry farming. In heat stressed flocks, massive mortality rates and …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing growth performance, morphometric traits, meat chemical composition and cholesterol content in four phenotypes of naked neck chicken

M Shafiq, MT Khan, MS Rehman, F Raziq, E Bughio… - Poultry Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study was conducted to assess the growth performance, morphometric traits,
muscle chemical composition and cholesterol content in four phenotypes of naked neck …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary sodium butyrate alleviates the oxidative stress induced by corticosterone exposure and improves meat quality in broiler chickens

WH Zhang, F Gao, QF Zhu, C Li, Y Jiang, SF Dai… - Poultry science, 2011 - Elsevier
The present study was to investigate the effects of dietary microencapsulated sodium
butyrate (SB) and acute pre-slaughter stress, mimicked by subcutaneous corticosterone …

Evaluation of growth, carcass, immune response and stress parameters in naked neck chicken and their normal siblings under tropical winter and summer …

U Rajkumar, MR Reddy, SV Rao, K Radhika… - … Australasian Journal of …, 2011 - animbiosci.org
The performance of naked neck and normal chicken was evaluated with respect to growth,
carcass, immune, biochemical and stress parameters under winter and summer seasons to …

Naked neck and frizzle genes for improving chickens raised under high ambient temperature: I. Growth performance and egg production

MM Fathi, A Galal, S El-Safty… - World's Poultry Science …, 2013 - cambridge.org
High ambient temperatures in tropical and subtropical regions adversely affect the growth
and egg productive performance of both broiler and laying chickens. Relative humidity and …

Effect of naked neck gene on immune competence, serum biochemical and carcass traits in chickens under a tropical climate

U Rajkumar, BLN Reddy, KS Rajaravindra… - … Australasian journal of …, 2010 - animbiosci.org
A comprehensive study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of naked neck (Na) gene on
immune competence, serum biochemical parameters and carcass quality traits in three …

[PDF][PDF] Growth performance, proximate composition and immune competence of naked neck, Rhode Island Red and their F1 crossbred chickens in a tropical climate

M Alam, N Chand, S Khan, SM Suhail - J. Anim. Health Prod, 2021 - academia.edu
A study was conducted on the growth performance, carcass characteristics and immune
competence of Naked Neck (NN), exotic Rhode Island Red (RIR) and their crossbred …

Growth performance of crossbred naked neck and normal feathered laying hens kept in tropical villages

K Adomako, OS Olympio, JK Hagan… - British Poultry …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Two experiments were conducted to develop naked neck (Na/na) and normal feathered
(na/na) crossbreds and compare their growth performance, linear body measurements and …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic and sex differences in carcass traits of Nigerian indigenous chickens

CE Isidahomen, BM Ilori, K Akano - Journal of Animal Science …, 2012 - funaab.edu.ng
Genetic and sex differences or variation in carcass characteristic and slaughter yield were
studied using a total of 150 intensively reared and clinically normal chickens consisted of 50 …