Vitamin D fortified food can help to reduce the prevalence for vitamin D deficiency. Previous
data provided evidence that eggs from hens exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light contain large …

Commercial poultry production is associated with various types of stress leading to decrease
of productive and reproductive performance and compromised health of growing chickens …

The effects of dietary 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25OHD) on growth, production
performance, eggshell quality and bone characteristics of laying hens were evaluated in a …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of eggs from 2 selected commercial strains
of laying hens and 2 unselected lines of chickens fed diets with different combinations of Ca …

Schistosomiasis threatens thousands of millions of peoples' health every year in the world.
Schistosoma japonicum, a pathogen of schistosomiasis, is covered by a lipid bilayer …

The economy of Ca utilization is under the control of vitamin D3, particularly its active
metabolite 1, 25-dihydroxy cholecalciferol [1, 25 (OH) 2D3]. In sufficient Ca absorption leads …

This chapter presents a recent view on the development of vitagene-modulating
supplements (some of them contain SM) to deal with various problems in commercial poultry …

Summary Hy-Line Brown layer hens were housed in individual cages from 19 to 80 weeks of
age to study the effects of dietary supplementation with two levels of 25 …

Solanceae Family is also called the nightshade family or the Potato family. Solanaceae has
more than 90 genera and nearly 3000 species distributed throughout the world. The survey …

The effects of UVB lights on laying hens and eggshell quality were investigated in this study.
UVB light treatment was provided by Philips TL 20W/12 RS SLV/25 tube light. The lights …