(n.) A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a second phase of the study, a comparison was made between mortality rates of male and female progeny of White Leghorn-Rhode Island Red reciprocal crosses.
(2) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
(3) Two commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits, seven serum plate agglutination (SPA) antigens, and the hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test for antibodies to Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) were compared for sensitivity and specificity using known MG-positive and MG-negative sera from leghorn chickens.
(4) Infectious tenosynovitis was diagnosed in three separate outbreaks in a commercial White Leghorn hens, though not previously reported in adult White Leghorns (3).
(5) In a multi-generation experiment with 120 hens of the species White Leghorn per group kept in cages, the influence of 5%, 7.5% and 15% 'fermosinR' torula yeast in the ration of mixed feed on various performance parameters in the 364-day laying period was investigated under long-term toxicologic aspects.
(6) A total of 408 White Leghorn-type laying hens was used in this study.
(7) Aminopyrine demethylase activity was significantly lower in liver slices from the duck (Aylesbury X Pekin, Khaki-Campbell) than from the rat (Wistar), and in the Aylesbury X Pekin duck lower than in the turkey (Triple 6 FLX), chicken (Brown Leghorn, Rhode Island Red X Light Sussex) and goose (Emden X Doulouse).
(8) Specific-pathogen-free leghorn sentinel chickens were vaccinated with Massachusetts (Mass) alone, Mass and JMK, or Mass and Arkansas (Ark) combination live vaccines, or they remained unvaccinated.
(9) To investigate the adaptive responses of immature bone to increased loads, young (3-wk-old) White Leghorn roosters were subjected to moderately intense treadmill running for 5 or 9 wk.
(10) The behaviour of the donor melanoblasts from the leg bud mesoderm of Silver Campine implanted into White Leghorn embryos has been studied.
(11) Retinal pigmented epithelium of White Leghorn chick embryos did not give rise to pigmentation of feather primordia in the hosts.
(12) Compared with the fertility results with semen that had been stored in the hypertonic diluent or was fresh, the fertility of the White Leghorns was not affected after storage in the isotonic diluent; a decrease (P less than 0-05) was observed, however, using Rhode Island Red semen and isotonic diluent.
(13) A specific-pathogen-free pedigreed breeding population of White Leghorns was determined to be free of lymphoid leukosis subgroups (LL-A and LL-B) on the basis of the standard resistance-inducing factor (RIF) test of sera of individual birds.
(14) Lymphoid leukosis was successfully controlled in three inbred lines of White Leghorn chickens and in a commercial grand parent flock of White Plymouth Rocks.
(15) Compared to male White Leghorns, in which sudden death syndrome has not been reported, male broilers had significantly lower (p less than 0.01) levels of cholesterol and creatinine at nine days of age, total protein at 9 and 20 days of age and albumin at 20 days of age and significantly higher (p less than 0.01) levels of potassium at nine days, uric acid at 9, 20 and 30 days, lactate dehydrogenase at 20, 30 and 42 days and cholesterol at 30 days of age.
(16) Studies were conducted examining the subcellular distribution of beta-carotene (BC), alpha-tocopherol (E) and retinol (A) in livers of control and BC-fed male White Leghorn chicks.
(17) The results of this study indicated that the threshold requirements for BW, composition, or both, for SM may have been exceeded in Leghorn-type chickens when photoscheduling was used to delay the onset of SM.
(18) Different breeds of chickens namely Single Comb White Leghorn (S.C.W.L.
(19) Leghorn chickens were used as experimental animals and the gradual development of the pseudosheath as well as the healing of sheath autografts were studied both macroscopically and histologically including transmission electron miscroscopy.
(20) Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs, EC 2.5.1.18) were isolated from the liver cytosolic fraction of 1 day old Leghorn chicks by S-hexylglutathione and glutathione affinity columns arranged in tandem.
Poultry
Definition:
(n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study identifies and values the costs of a hospital based outbreak of poultry-borne salmonellosis.
(2) This was achieved by means of postal questionnaires, coupled with the biochemical and serological examination of bacterial isolates from 91 outbreaks in poultry and from nine cases in other avian species.
(3) This showed that regardless of the small territory of the country the districts are sufficiently differing between each other (due to the various degrees of integration) so that they could not be grouped together by similar values of intensity of poultry breeding and epizootic conjuncture with regard to Newcastle disease.
(4) In one experiment, finisher diets containing 2.5, 5.0, or 10.0% of added corn oil (CO), poultry oil (PO), tallow (T), or a commercial hydrolyzed animal-vegetable fat blend (HB) were fed.
(5) As part of a larger study to determine the flow of Campylobacter and Salmonella from food animals to humans during 1982-83, 1,936 swabs were collected for bacteriologic study from pre-market chickens, retail poultry, and other retail meats as well as from equipment and work surfaces used to process such foods.
(6) Enterococcus faecalis was predominant in human and poultry faeces, Streptococcus bovis was typical of the bovine faeces and to a lesser extent also of pig faeces whereas Enterococcus durans, Ent.
(7) Reference limits defined herein could be used as indicators of metabolic and health conditions of a poultry farm.
(8) The apparent digestibility of organic matter and crude protein of poultry litter amounted to 69.8 and 82.8%, the net energy content was indicated with 474 EFUc per kg of dry matter.
(9) Corn-soybean breeder diets with 0, 2, 4, and 6% added poultry fat were fed from 24 to 64 wk of age.
(10) The author analyses the interrelationship between the hygienic prerequisites of reproduction and performance in poultry farming, with regard to their impact on human health.
(11) The Food and Drug Administration gave approval in 1974 for the oral administration of supplemental selenium as either sodium selenite or sodium selenate to certain classes of swine and poultry.
(12) The significance of these findings for poultry processing is discussed.
(13) This study was undertaken to supply information on Aspergillus fumigatus infection of poultry in Nigeria.
(14) Fresh fruit and vegetable sales rose by about 5% while fish, poultry and nuts saw similar growth.
(15) It may be that use of nitrofurans in the poultry industry has selected for colonization and infection with S. enteritidis PT4.
(16) It was found that in this country's conditions of industrial poultry raising most rational was the use of lactic acid at the rate of 0.004 per cu.
(17) The broilers were marketed at a federally inspected poultry processing plant.
(18) Systematic microbiologic control was carried out in the 1972-1975 period on an elite poultry farm whereas from the 23,724 samples studied, taken from objects of the epizootic chain forage-birds-hatchery, 78 cultures of Salmonella organisms of 14 species or 0.32 per cent of the total number of samples were isolated.
(19) durans were found in the small intestines of this category of poultry.
(20) Four commercial poultry breeder flocks that were vaccinated under field conditions against avian encephalomyelitis (AE) with commercial live or inactivated vaccine were monitored periodically by virus-neutralization testing of blood serum samples and by challenge of their progeny eggs and chicks.