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- 2Ebadi, Maryam
- 2Haisan, Jennifer L
- 2Ho, Linda
- 2Kim, Yong Min
- 2Kubota, Hiroshi
- 10McMullen, Lynn (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 7Gänzle, Michael (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 7Oba, Masahito (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 7Wu, Jianping (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 6Bressler, David (Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
- 6Temelli, Feral (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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Fall 2017
The timely feeding of an adequate volume of high quality colostrum immediately after birth is one of the key factors influencing the health and survival of the neonatal dairy calf. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to investigate the effect of current colostrum management practices on the...
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Effects of Delayed and Extended Colostrum Feeding Strategies on Small Intestinal Growth in Neonatal Holstein Bull Calves
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Enhancing passive transfer of immunoglobulins (Ig) in calves has been the main focus of colostrum feeding in the dairy industry. Currently, it is not yet clear how the timing and extended duration of colostrum feeding impacts neonatal calf intestinal development. The aim of Study 1 was to...
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Effects of dietary 25-hydroxycholecalciferol and vitamin D3 on performance, meat yield, bone characteristics, innate immune response and gene expression of Ross 308 broilers grown on reused or fresh litter
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The effects of dietary 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25OHD3) and vitamin D3 (D3) on performance, meat yield, bone characteristics, innate immune response and gene expression of broiler chickens grown on Reused and Fresh litter were investigated. Experimental diets were fed to Ross 308 chicks (n=512)...
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Effects of dietary 25-hydroxycholecalciferol on growth, production performance, eggshell quality and bone traits of brown egg layers housed under commercial conditions
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The effects of dietary 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25OHD) on growth, production performance, eggshell quality and bone characteristics of laying hens were evaluated in a field trial in Colombia. At day 1 of age, a total of 17,750 Hy-Line Brown pullets were placed on a commercial farm, in 3 houses...
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Effects of dietary combination of 25-OH-D3 and canthaxanthin on performance, meat yield, bone characteristics and antioxidant status of broilers housed under commercial and experimental conditions
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The effects of 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 (25-OH-D3), canthaxanthin (CX), alone and in combination on broiler performance, meat yield, oxidative status, skin colour and bone characteristics were evaluated in a field trial in Colombia and also under controlled experimental conditions in Canada. The...
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Effects of dietary phosphorus and calcium levels and phytase supplementation on bone metabolism of egg-laying hens
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The importance of this Ph.D. thesis work is to assess the effects of dietary available phosphorus (avP) and calcium (Ca) levels and phytase supplementation in egg-laying hens and broilers. Two trials were conducted to evaluate the effects of marginal, moderate, and severe reduction in dietary avP...
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Effects of dietary starch allocation on feeding behaviors and production performance of dairy cows under various management scenarios
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Despite there being a large body of literature evaluating dietary strategies to support the metabolism of lactating cows, optimum dietary starch allocation, and resulting effects on milking performance and feeding behaviour are still unknown. Therefore, the overall objective of this research was...
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Effects of dietary starch on ovarian physiology, intra-follicular milieu of the preovulatory follicle, and plasma metabolites in postpartum dairy cows
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Effects of dietary starch content on ovarian dynamics in lactating dairy cows and intrafollicular milieu of preovulatory follicles were studied. Diets containing two levels of starch (29.2% and 19.1%) were fed until 84 d post-calving. Diets had no effect on the interval from calving-to-ovulation,...