Brand, Tertuis S. Kritzinger, Werne J. van der Merwe, Daniel A. Muller, Anieka van der Westhuyzen, Johannes P. Hoffman, Louwrens C.
Published in
Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
Accurate diet formulations are required to fulfil the nutrient requirements of birds in order to achieve optimal production. Knowing how the skin, nodule and feather production characteristics vary with diets of different nutrient densities will help in least-cost modelling. Feather growth and nodule development are factors that were previously neg...
Yuan, Kunpeng Wang, Dongdong Luan, Qingdong Sun, Ju Gao, Qianwen Jiang, Zhiyao Wang, Shouchun Han, Yijun Qu, Xueting Cui, Yueying
...
Published in
Viruses
Ostrich diseases characterized by paralysis have been breaking out in broad areas of China since 2015, causing major damage to the ostrich breeding industry in China. This report describes a parvovirus detected in ostriches from four different regions. The entire genomes of four parvovirus strains were sequenced following amplification by PCR, and ...
Nazer, Manoel B Campos, Rui Voll, Juliana
Published in
Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007)
Thirty ostrich specimens were injected with red-dyed latex via the internal carotid arteries (Aa.) The middle cerebral and cerebroethmoidal arteries and their branches were systematized. The middle cerebral artery (a.) was always a single large vessel. On the right side, it had two, three, or one developed medial hemispheric branches in 46.6%, 26.7...
Wium, Martha Jonker, Hester Isabella Olivier, Adriaan Jacobus Bellstedt, Dirk Uwe Botes, Annelise
Published in
Frontiers in immunology
In ostriches, the population densities resulting from intensive rearing increases susceptibility to pathogens such as mycoplasmas. In addition to good management practices, vaccination offers an attractive alternative for controlling mycoplasma infections in food animals, instead of using antibiotics, which often leave unacceptable residues. The us...
Reys, Aurélien
Le propos de cet article est de retracer l’histoire de la filière autruche à partir d’un lieu : Oudtshoorn. En effet, c’est cette petite ville sud-africaine qui domine l’industrie de l’autruche depuis la fin du xixe siècle. Le déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale compromet brutalement l’âge d’or de ce commerce de plumes. Après plusieurs déc...
MAHROSE, KHALID M. EL-HACK, MOHAMED E. ABD AMER, SHYMAA A.
Abstract: Thirty-six African Black ostrich chicks were used to investigate the effects of dietary crude protein (CP) levels (180, 210 and 240 g/kg), stocking density (4.5 and 3 m2/bird) and their interactions. A factorial arrangement was used to examine the impact of treatments on growth performance and body measurements of ostrich chicks during 2 ...
Lamglait, Benjamin
Published in
Journal of zoo and wildlife medicine : official publication of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians
The husbandry and medical records, and necropsy reports, of 1,002 captive Struthioniformes that died at the Réserve Africaine de Sigean (France) from 1974 to 2015 were examined. The goal of this study was to determine the most common causes of mortality in ostriches ( Struthio camelus), emus ( Dromaius novaehollandiae), and American rheas ( Rhea am...
Hajibabaei, A Casey, N
Published in
Journal of Animal Science
Ostriches are susceptible to Newcastle disease virus (NDV); farmed ostriches are inoculated against the infection. The research aimed to establish humoral responses of ostrich chicks to L-carnitine to improve immunity against NDV. A dietary supplement of L-carnitine was administered to chicks from day-old to 81 days; sera antibody titre was the hum...
muvhali, pfunzo t. bonato, maud engelbrecht, anel malecki, irek a. hough, denise robinson, jane e. evans, neil p. p. cloete, schalk w.
The effect of extensive human presence and regular gentle handling performed at an early age (0&ndash / 3 months old) on stress responses and reactivity of juvenile ostriches towards humans was investigated. A total of 416 ostrich chicks over two years were exposed to one of three treatments for three months after hatching / namely, Human Presence ...
Perrin, Kathryn L Bertelsen, Mads F Bartholin, Henrik Grøndahl, Carsten Heegaard, Steffen
Published in
Veterinary ophthalmology
A 2-year-old male ostrich (Struthio camelus) presented with a rapidly growing soft tissue mass protruding from the ventromedial aspect of the right eye (OD). The initial physical examination revealed a soft tissue mass attached to the medial inferior conjunctiva. The mass was excised with cryosurgery, and the conjunctival tissue margins were treate...
