Replacing soybean meal with fermented feed led to a decrease in the abnormal egg rate during the late laying period of Hy-Line Gray laying hens as well as enhancing eggshell strength and thickness. Moreover, this replacement strategy reduced breast muscle drip loss, increased pH levels, and improved meat color. Moreover, it lowered fat and cholesterol content in muscle and facilitated amino acid deposition. Notably, replacing 10 % of soybean meal with fermented feed for 8 weeks demonstrated promising outcomes.

This study was conducted to identify key welfare risks using the AWIN (Animal Welfare Indicators) protocol for extensively managed sheep farms. Each farm was visited once. A total of 702 sheep were individually assessed on the farms as part of the second-level welfare criteria. The main animal welfare risks identified were housing facilities, the provision of adequate and balanced diets to the animals, and the implementation of appropriate animal health plans in accordance with the breed requirements.

The study utilises artificial intelligence to improve buffalo recognition in livestock management. It employs facial images of 11 buffaloes to develop a dataset and utilises four CNN (convolutional neural network) algorithms to identify buffaloes based on muzzle patterns. Results indicate successful performance, with SqueezeNet achieving the highest accuracy of 99.88 %, along with high precision, recall, and F1 score.

Using 900 Hubbard broilers, results showed that enzyme treatment and fermentation improved weight gain and FCRs (feed conversion ratios). Fermentation at 6 % and 12 % was optimal, while 18 % had negative effects. Carcass traits, nutrient digestibility, and bone strength improved, with reduced triglycerides in fermented groups, enhancing broiler productivity.

The objectives of this study are to identify a suitable mathematical model for determining the breeding strategies and describing the growth curve of the Kaçkar hair goat.

The mating behaviour of honeybees was studied on the small beekeeping-free island in Lake Neusiedl, Austria. Of 17 virgin queens brought to the island, 11 were available for examination of their offspring. Except for two queens, all the island-mated queen bees had both cordovan and wild-type offspring, indicating they flew to the mainland for mating. The results suggest that this island is not suitable for establishing a mating station for honeybee breeding programmes.

A total of 185 German Pomeranian Coarsewool (RPL) sheep were genotyped to evaluate their genetic diversity and assess the possibility of breeding for resistance against maedi-visna virus (MVV).  Breeding for MVV resistance is feasible without reducing genetic diversity, but it is not recommended until further studies confirm the protective effect of theTMEM154 allele K against MVV in this breed. This study pioneers research on selective breeding for disease resistance.

The present study evaluated the effects of fennel seed meal (FSM) on performance, carcass characteristics, lengths of digestive tract parts (cm), intestinal enzyme activity, intestinal microbiology, blood parameters, and economic efficiency in broiler chickens. It is concluded that fennel seed meal can be used in up to 20 % of broiler chicken diets to reduce feed costs without adverse effects on broilers' growth performance and public health.