(1) The pullets were housed in battery brooder pens with raised wire floors.
(2) In the brooder study, neither total mortality nor mortality from SDS was significantly affected by cereal type.
(3) One-half of the birds from each treatment were immediately given access to feed and water in pens of brooder batteries; the remainder were held 3 days in transportation boxes before placement in other pens of the same batteries.
(4) The control of ectoparasites, before the use of modern insecticides, became vastly simplified as mechanical incubators and brooders replaced the hen, and as the birds were provided with better housing.
(5) An experiment with a factorial arrangement of treatments using four levels of dietary lactate (0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5% calcium lactate) and four levels of dietary glucose (0, 15, 30, and 45% cerelose) was conducted to determine the effect of these compounds on the incidence of sudden death syndrome (SDS) in 1,280 male broiler chickens reared in battery brooder cages to 4 wk of age.
(6) Half the chicks in each experiment was brooded Days 1 to 7 on brooding paper, which covered the litter within a brooder ring.
(7) In the second experiment, birds were reared either in battery brooders and grow-out cages or floor pens from Day 1 to 63.
(8) A high incidence of a dermatitis on the upper part of the beak was also observed in poults maintained in battery brooders but not in floor pens.
(9) In Experiment 1, birds were maintained in battery brooders for 21 days then housed in floor pens from Day 22 to 70.
(10) Three experiments using day-old chicks were conducted in battery brooders to further study the rye-vitamin D antagonism.
(11) Six experiments were conducted with male broiler chicks kept in battery brooders to investigate the effects of feeding diets high in copper on the integrity of the gizzard lining.
(12) The chicks were naturally infected with MAS, whereas hatchmates fed the same diets but in a separate facility (battery brooder) did not exhibit signs of MAS and, therefore, were considered controls.
(13) In the first two experiments, the broilers were raised in floor pens to 6 wk of age, and in the third experiment they were raised in battery-brooder cages to 4 wk of age.
(14) The birds were kept in separate wire-floored brooders and growout batteries, fed unmedicated broiler-starter rations ad libitum, and killed 7 days postchallenge.
(15) Four hundred and eighty Hubbard x Hubbard broilers were randomly placed in battery brooders, with 10 birds per pen.
(16) Corn-soybean meal diets calculated to contain 1.5% calcium and either .35, .55, .75, .95, or 1.15% available phosphorus were fed to battery brooder reared poults for 3 weeks.
(17) Day-old White Mountain cockerels were reared in electrically-heated battery brooders and given access to either a 23% protein control ration (no choice) or two diets containing 10% or 60% protein with or without supplemental amino acids.
(18) The drop in infected cells was restored to control values if chicks were returned to brooder temperatures.
(19) The poults were housed in battery brooders with wire screen floors in four experiments" and in floor pens with litter in one experiment.
(20) Day-old Cobb x Cobb broiler chicks were housed in battery brooders for 21-day feeding periods during two experiments.
Premature
Definition:
(a.) Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.
(a.) Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.
(a.) Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(2) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(3) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(4) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
(5) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(6) Conclusions on phylogenetic trends of sexual dimorphism of skeletal robusticity and the effect of culture on it seem to be premature.
(7) The acetylcarnitine content of tracheal fluid was higher in samples obtained from premature newborns.
(8) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
(9) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.
(10) Amiodarone was able to suppress the premature ventricular beats, depress conduction and prolong refractoriness in both, the AV node and accessory pathway to prevent recurrences of atrioventricular reentry.
(11) 1) The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM), threatened premature delivery, toxemia and abruption placentae were 40.6, 36.4, 7.8 and 3.0%, respectively.
(12) Further significantly positive associations to the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) were found for the following parameters: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, family history of premature MI, cigarette smoking, plasma levels of triglycerides, VLDL-cholesterol and blood glucose.
(13) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
(14) The gonadally unresponsive patients had either pituitary tumours or premature menopause.
(15) Premature infants possessed 35-50% higher levels of retinal vitamin C than those found in mature retinas.
(16) It is suggested that the limited renal capacity to reabsorb sodium may account for the low bicarbonate threshold in premature infants.
(17) A patient with hypertensive heart disease, in whom atrial premature beats with a decrease in the amplitude and widening of his bundle potential, prolongation of the H-V interval, and right bundle branch block pattern suggested intrahisian longitudinal dissociation, is described.
(18) Findings on cranial ultrasonography strongly suggested the diagnosis of a localized infarct in four premature infants.
(19) Premature birth retarded maturation of hepatic glucuronyl transferase activity.
(20) A clearly recognizable relationship of SEH to gestational age and clinical status exists in that all SEH occur in premature infants under 2500 g birthweight (although only 56% of all premature infants have SEH) and 95% of SEH occur in infants with the respiratory distress syndrome (although only 60% of infants with the respiratory distress syndrome have SEH).