Article
Responses of chickens to Streptococcus faecalis: genotype-housing interactions.
Avian diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Siegel P B, Katanbaf M N, Anthony N B, Jones D E, Martin A, Gross W B, Dunnington E A
Abstract excerpt
Hens from lines selected for high and low juvenile body weight were maintained in single-bird wire cages or in litter-floor flocks and inoculated intravenously with Streptococcus faecalis. Responses to the inoculation, as measured by changes in body weight, plasma xanthophyll levels, heterophil/l...
Topics
- Animals
- Chickens
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Female
- Genotype
- Housing, Animal
- Poultry Diseases
- Species Specificity
- Streptococcal Infections