Bean-Hodgins, Lisa;Mohammadigheisar, Mohsen;Edwards, Michelle;Wang, C.;Barbut, Shai;Kiarie, Elijah — 2022-09-30The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of gut health management programs on performance and breast meat quality in broiler chickens reared in commercial farms across 6 consecutive flocks (study 1) and controlled research settings (study 2).
Bean-Hodgins, Lisa;Mohammadigheisar, Mohsen;Edwards, Michelle;Kiarie, Elijah — 2022-09-30The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of commercial gut health management programs on gastrointestinal responses including organ development, jejunal histomorphology, and cecal SCFA in broiler chickens reared in commercial farms (study 1) and controlled research settings (study 2).
Kiarie, Elijah;Torrey, Stephanie;Santos, Midian;Rothschild, Daniel;Dawson, Lauren;Liu, Zhenzhen;Widowski, Tina;Mohammadigheisar, Mohsen;Mandell, Ira;Narrow, Niel;Tulpan, Dan;Edwards, Michelle — 2023-02-16We studied 16 different genetic strains of broiler chickens over a 2-year period to understand differences in behavior, activity, physiology, anatomy, mortality, growth, feed efficiency, and carcass and meat quality as they relate to the strains’ growth rates and age.
