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Described herein are avian follistatin products, and methods for producing such products, in which such products are effective for a variety of conditions, including increasing muscle mass. Avian follistatin products described herein are packaged as dietary supplements or nutritional supplements are useful in muscle regeneration.

An isolated Bacillus strain LSSAO1 is provided. When fed to a bird, this and other Bacillus strains described herein provide benefits to the birds. For example, administration of the one or more Bacillus strain can increase low G+C, gram positive bacteria in the gastrointestinal flora of the bird. These type of bacteria are increased by antibiotics and include beneficial Clostridium. Administration of the one or more Bacillus strain can also inhibit pathogen in the bird, such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Clostridium. These benefits can enhance feed conversion in poultry. Useful combinations of Bacillus strains and methods of using one or more Bacillus strain are also provided.

An additive for fowl's feed is prepared from more Chinese-medicinal materials, and can serve to improve immunity, promote appetite and absorption, and relieve inflammation. Its advantages are high effect and low cost.

An insect killing system optimized for mosquitoes uses multiple thermal gradients to simulate the breathing and body heat from animals, including human beings and fowl, to attract insects for subsequent electrocution. The system comprises an elongated, generally parallelepiped housing supported upon a lower base. A heating tower shrouded by the housing supports a spaced apart, generally pyramidal roof. Several slits penetrate the base to permit air entry. An internal fan draws air into the base where the air mixes with scents, pheromones, and / or moisture. Mixed air is blown into and through the heating tower. An internal baffle divides the tower interior into separate, spaced apart compartments. A lower compartment houses a heater, and an adjacent upper compartment vents warmed air to atmosphere, creating numerous separate streams of warmed air that, to an insect, emulate human breathing. The baffle restricts air flow to create a pressure differential while ensuring adequate residence time to sufficiently warm the air. Heated air traversing the upper compartment is expelled through a plurality of discharge orifices. The resulting multitude of warm air currents creates an infrared signature emulating human breathing to attract mosquitoes. Additionally, a motorized mechanism provides movement of the apparatus to create motion simulating a living creature, which provides a further attractant to mosquitoes.

Embodiments teaching appliance base constructions which increase stability, using both static and dynamic base extending elements. Methods to enhance coloring of the fried foods. Food support structures which utilize two-hand manipulation to increase safety and control. Removable handle construction, which decreases storage space. Peripheral feet on appliance base, to increase safety and stability. Various means for securing unitary food items, including fowl, during cooking. Structures which help prevent accidental deep fryer oil overflow onto supporting surfaces. Lid constructions, which keep a lid in place to protect the user, even while loading oversized, vertically extending foods. Food drainage opening assist device, to help drain fowl cavities after deep frying. Collapsible food support devices, used for cooking, serving, carving, and other purposes. Movable partitions within a food support, to compartmentalize, contain, cap, and space apart foods being cooked. Structures to help align over-extending food during their loading into a cooking vessel.

A transgenic non-human animal of the species selected from the group consisting of avian, bovine, ovine and porcine having a transgene which results in disrupting the production of and / or activity of growth differentiation factor-8 (GDF-8) chromosomally integrated into the germ cells of the animal is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for making such animals, and methods of treating animals with antibodies or antisense directed to GDF-8. The animals so treated are characterized by increased muscle tissue.

A culture system for maintaining avian PGCs for long periods in tissue culture is provided. This culture system uses LIF, bFGF, IGF and SCF. The resultant PGCs are useful for the production of transgenic and chimeric avians, in particular, chickens or turkeys.

An isolated Bacillus strain LSSAO1 is provided. When fed to a bird, this and other Bacillus strains described herein provide benefits to the birds. For example, administration of the one or more Bacillus strain can increase low G+C, gram positive bacteria in the gastrointestinal flora of the bird. These type of bacteria are increased by antibiotics and include beneficial Clostridium. Administration of the one or more Bacillus strain can also inhibit pathogen in the bird, such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Clostridium. These benefits can enhance feed conversion in poultry. Useful combinations of Bacillus strains and methods of using one or more Bacillus strain are also provided.

The present invention provides an isolated mammalian negative strand RNA virus, metapneumovirus (MPV), within the sub-family Pneumoviridae, of the family Paramyxoviridae. The invention also provides isolated mammalian negative strand RNA viruses identifiable as phylogenetically corresponding or relating to the genus Metapneumovirus and components thereof. In particular the invention provides a mammalian MPV, subgroups and variants thereof. The invention relates to genomic nucleotide sequences of different isolates of mammalian metapneumoviruses, in particular human metapneumoviruses. The invention relates to the use of the sequence information of different isolates of mammalian metapneumoviruses for diagnostic and therapeutic methods. The present invention relates to nucleotide sequences encoding the genome of a metapneumovirus or a portion thereof, including both mammalian and avian metapneumovirus. The invention further encompasses chimeric or recombinant viruses encoded by said nucleotide sequences. The invention also relates to chimeric and recombinant mammalian MPV that comprise one or more non-native or heterologous sequences. The invention further relates to vaccine formulations comprising mammalian or avian metapneumovirus, including recombinant and chimeric forms of said viruses. The vaccine preparations of the invention encompass multivalent vaccines, including bivalent and trivalent vaccine preparations.

The invention discloses a device used for quick online nondestructive detection on cracks of poultry eggs on the basis of acoustic characteristic and a method thereof; the poultry egg is arranged on a supporting idler wheel; a stepping motor is connected with the supporting idler wheel and drives the supporting idler wheel; a microphone which is arranged beside the poultry egg is sequentially connected with a computer by a signal amplifier, a filter and an A / D converter; when the poultry egg rolls on a chain, different parts of the poultry egg are mechanically knocked at multi-point by a knocking rod; sound signals collected by the microphone are amplified by the signal amplifier, filtrated by the filter and converted by the A / D converter and subsequently input to the computer, thus comprehensively judging the cracking situation of the poultry eggs. The device and the method can adapt to poultry eggs with different types and different sizes, realize the classification and automatic detection of the poultry eggs during the production processing and circulation process, and can be popularized and applied to the nondestructive detection on the hardness and the maturity of agricultural products such as fruits, vegetables, and the like.

The invention discloses a Pleurotus eryngii culture medium and a manufacturing method thereof. The culture medium comprises 75 to 80 percent of cottonseed hulls or wheat straws or straws or corncob, 5 to 12 percent of wheat bran or rice husks, 8 to 10 percent of dry fowl manure, 3 to 8 percent of cornmeal, 1 to 2 percent of hemihydrate gypsum, 0.5 to 1.5 percent of sucrose and 0.5 to 1.5 percent of quicklime, and is added with 0.1 to 0.3 percent of potassium dihydrogen phosphate and 0.1 to 0.2 percent of magnesium sulfate according to the total amount of the compositions, and various compositions are calculated by weight percentage. The cottonseed hulls or the wheat straws or the straws or the corncob and the dry fowl manure are stacked and retted before use; and the culture medium after cultivation of Pleurotus eryngii is subjected to on-the-spot returning treatment. By adoption of the technical proposal, the method can make branched oyster mushrooms organisms well grown, overcome the defect that the prior art has no culture medium specially prepared for branched oyster mushrooms, simplify the production process, shorten the growth period of the Pleurotus eryngii, and improve the bioconversion of the Pleurotus eryngii.

A hunting decoy for fowl such as wild turkey or goose has a support shaft that can include a ground piercing stake, and two diverging support shafts that independently support a hollow decoy body and a decoy head assembly, normally including a head and neck. The two diverging support shafts permit independent movement of the body and the head assembly relative to the support shaft and relative to one another. The support shaft for the body can be vertically oriented and connects to the dorsal or back part of the decoy body at a fitting. The fitting can have a spring such as a helical spring that permits flexing and also can resiliently clamp against the decoy body to damp the extent of rotation. A similar fitting for the head assembly permits a head bobbing or pecking motion.

Transgenic avians which produce proteins in their oviduct tissue having modified oligosaccharide structures and methods of making such avians are disclosed herein. The invention also includes the modified proteins produced in the transgenic birds.

A composition and method for treating bacterial infections by the use of an effective amount of at least one lytic specific for the bacteria causing specific. The lytic enzyme is genetically coded for by a bacteriophage which may be specific for said bacteria. The enzyme may be at least one lytic protein or peptides in a natural or modified form.

A water fowl (e.g. duck) decoy system in which the decoy's wings (20 / 120), which are flat and both longitudinally and laterally extended by, for example, having one or more, curved lobes (23 / 123A&B, note FIGS. 1& 5B), producing a disc like shape, preferably of a size of at least about nine (9'') inches in "diameter," with contrasting colors (e.g., dark olive & white; cf. FIGS. 5B & 5C) on its flat sides with one or more stripes on its lighter side, are rotated at a relatively high speed (e.g., ~600 rpm+, e.g., more particularly ~600 or ~750 rpm or up to ~900 rpm or greater), producing a "strobe" like effect for enhanced visibility of the decoy to flying ducks. Additionally, the decoy (1 / 101) has a laterally disposed, direct, in-line, DC electric motor drive (30), with laterally directed, dual shaft connectors (note FIG. 3) directly connected to the wings. The wings may be connected to the dual motor shafts with their respective center-lines (29) either co-incidental or at varying angles (note set of proximal connector holes 27A-C of FIG. 3), producing a variable, wing "flapping" like effect when angled, i.e., not-co-incident.

The invention is a feed additive containing microbe and bio-enzyme, and its character: it is composed of beneficial bacteria, functional enzyme, mineral trace elements, and feed carrier. It has multielements to cooperate with one another, and thus it has good synthetic effect, and its microbes are obtained by solid fermentation, and thus the device investment is low, the low-temperature drying effectively assures the nutrient constituents, and the variety and activity of the microbes and bio-enzymes from not being lost, and simultaneously reduces enzyme extraction procedures, and extremely reduces the production cost; the product meets the dispersion of various effective constituents in the raw materials on the carrier as far as possible, so as to fully use them to achieve the best effect. It uses the addition of beneficial bacteria to regulate the balance of bacteria crowd in the stomach intestine of the domestic animal and fowl, improves the micro-ecological environment, and makes the domestic animal and fowl keep naturally healthy physique; inhibits and prevents the occurrence of the bacterial diseases, such as Escherichia coli disease, salmonella disease, etc, reducing antibiotic usage, reducing therapeutic expenses and improving the productivity of the animal.

A vaccine for protecting birds against infection by avian pathogenic gram negative microbes is disclosed. The vaccine is a recombinant Salmonella strain expressing O-antigen of an avian pathogenic gram negative microbe such as an E. coli strain that is pathogenic in poultry. The recombinant Salmonella strain also does not express Salmonella O-antigen. Methods of using the vaccine to immunize birds are also disclosed.

In the case of disease in the respiratory organs of creatures, which especially inhabit in terms of overcrowding, the danger of spreading a disease throughout the entire breeding farm is perfectly evident. The use of traditional methods, such as the stethoscope, for examining the respiratory organs of each creature, in the mode of their direct contact listening, is impossible in most due to the specific spatial arrangement of creatures in breeding farms and / or infectious danger to a veterinary. Moreover, the acoustic signs of the said illness at its early stage cannot be heard audibly with use of traditional methods. The present invention provides a novel method of ultrasound non-contact early detection of respiratory diseases in fowl and mammals, and other breathing creatures of animate nature, wherein innovative technology is applied for revealing the suspected minimal unit group with sick creature(s); wherein the said technology includes at least the following interrelated techniques: I-Stationary 3-D Surveying Technique that enables to identify vectored direction(s) to suspected sections in total creatures' inhabiting area by electronically scanning the said total area with 3-D array of ultrasonic transducers. II-Portable 2-D Inspection Technique that permits to verify disposition of perfect suspected sectional area by locating around each suspected inhabiting section with portable and hand-held ultrasonic detecting devices. III-Local 1-D Pinpointing Technique that provides for pinpointing a distinct suspected unit group, being inside an infected inhabiting sector, by a hand-held ultrasound pick-up device, equipped with extending acoustic probes for veterinary safety. Portable and Local Techniques optionally provides for use of wireless processing with Data Processing System. Spatio-Temporal compliance in applying the said techniques is being considered by operational algorithm of Data Processing System.

An active non-lethal infrasound system for denying all bird species access to critical areas, particularly in areas around aircraft and other high value systems. The system comprises a plurality of infrasound generators broadcasting continuous infrasonic signals to create a bird-free infrasound active zone within the perimeters of the protected critical area and an infrasound-free dead zones for birds being denied access to the critical areas. Further, an active infrasonic barrier is assembled within an exclusion area surrounding the bird-free infrasound active zone to dampen all low frequency sound waves emanating from the critical area and its perimeters. Wherever the situation allows, a wildlife sanctuary is preferably established further from the exclusion area to attract and protect birds, enforced by broadcasting infrasound signals that simulate natural sounds that attract species typical of the geographic location.

The process of treating animal raising waste water includes the following steps: aerating animal raising waste water through stirring in a regulating pond, flocculating and precipitating in a reacting preliminary sedimentation tank, biodegrading inside a membrane bioreactor with active sludge, filtering through ultrafiltering membrane, and discharging. The present invention combines the active sludge process and the membrane bioreactor process well to degrade animal raising waste water completely, and the treating process is simple and easy to operate.

Methods for modulating primordial germ cell (PGC) numbers and / or development in avians are provided. In one embodiment, the presently disclosed subject matter provides a method for modulating primordial germ cells numbers in an avian embryo comprising immunizing a female bird with an antigen associated with primordial germ cells, whereby an egg produced by the female bird comprises a sufficiently high concentration of antibodies specific for the antigen to modulate numbers of endogenous PGCs in an avian embryo present within in the egg. Also provided are methods for producing chimeric avians, methods for increasing the proportion of male birds in a plurality of eggs, methods of producing avian gametes, and methods for enhancing germ line transmission of nucleic acids in birds.

The invention relates to a green Chinese traditional medicine feed for feeding livestock and poultry, belonging to the rural area stock raising field. The feed is characterized in that the feed is prepared by the mixing of bean pulp of cooked soybean, rape seed cake, cotton cake, fish meal, bone meal, shellfish powder, umbilicus pulp of corn, urea, multiplex vitamin, magnesium sulplate, sodium bicarbonate, Chinese traditional medicines of angelica, tuber fleeceflower, notoperygium root, dried tangerine peel, ledebouriella root, radix codonopsis pilosulae, medicated leaven, rmalt, atractylodes rhizome, Chinese date, milkvetch root, liquorice, prepared rhizome of rehmannia, Chinese goldthread, mucuna macrocarpa, chuanxiong rhizome, frankincense, radix salviae miltiorrhizae, yellow-corktree bark, kuhseng, pine branch, hawkthorn, ginger powder, Chinese anise and carrot powder, micro elements of copper, iron, zinc, manganese, selenium and potassium and amino acids of methionine and threonine. The invention is a green Chinese traditional medicine feed for livestock and poultry, can make all stock raising animals such as pigs, cattle, sheep and poultries absorb nourishments in high efficiency and improve the capability of resisting viruses and bacteria, and can prevent illness and plague; moreover, the meat of the animals fed by the feed meets the national green meat product standard.

The invention relates to a fowl eggs quality non-destroying automatic detection apparatus and method therefore, wherein the apparatus includes an operation system which comprises supervisory instrument of breakage eggs discrimination for programmed computer system control, picture pattern acquisition and information supervisory instrument for eggs quality identification, and a grading machine assembly for rejecting breakage eggs and accomplishing fractionation.

Recombinant strains of avian paramyxovirus (APMV), such as Newcastle disease virus (NDV), are provided. Also provided are compositions comprising them, and methods of using them to lyse tumor cells and to treat cancer. In certain aspects, genetically-engineered viral strains that incorporate therapeutic transgenes are also provided. The recombinant viruses may be used in accordance with methods of providing enhanced oncolytic efficacy and delivering an oncolytic virus to tumors present in a patient. Also provided are methods for identifying a recombinant virus as an oncolytically-effective agent.

The invention discloses a fowl manure fermentation fertilizer. The fertilizer is produced by materials of fresh fowl manure, rice bran powder, maize meal, wheat flour, brown sugar, lime powder, dinoflagellate, microzyme, lactobacillus, thermophilic actinomycetes, etc. The invention improves culture environment of henhouses, and heavy metal in the fowl manure is degraded and changed into treasure, becoming an ecological organic fertilizer which is comprehensively and abundantly nutrient. Nitrate and secondary salt formed in the soil by fertilizer residual can be degraded by the fowl manure fermentation fertilizer, and therefore functions of disease resistant, lodging resistant, crop yields improvement can be realized; ventilation property of the soil is improved, soil hardening and virus can be reduced and banished, meanwhile, dosage of the chemical fertilizer and pesticide is reduced; production cost is reduced, pollution is reduced and soil environment is optimized, and microeubiosis of the soil is achieved; therefore the crops can be ripen in advance, grade of the crops is improved, hazardous and noxious substance contents remained in the crops are lowered and banished, and the green environmental requirements of heavy metal residual of the crops can be achieved.

The present invention discloses a preparation method and application of Bacillus coagulans and a spore preparation cultured in high density, and belongs to the microbe technical field. A Bacillus coagulans strain is classified and named Bacillus coagulans JSSW-LA-07 and is preserved as CGMCC No.2602 in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center. The Bacillus coagulans strain JSSW-LA-07 can produce spore under an aerobic condition and produce a small amount of L-lactic acid in the metabolism during a course of fermentation. The Bacillus coagulans strain can produce L-lactic acid with a higher purity under an anaerobic condition. The strain does not produce substances which can be harmful to human and cultured animals, has the characteristics of innocuity, on residue, no side effect and the like, has a great significance for production of green and safe livestock, fowls and marine products and improvement of cultivation ecological environment, and can be widely applied in the cultivation production of high yield, high quality, high efficiency, synusiologic and safe livestock, fowls and marine products, and the regulation and control of the ecological environment of cultivation.

A poultry weighing apparatus includes a support surface configured to permit at least one fowl to stand thereon. A force sensor is operably connected with the support surface, and detects the weight of the fowl or fowls on the support surface. A second sensor is operably connected with the support surface, and detects at least one additional physical characteristic, other than weight, of the fowl or fowls standing on the support surface.

The present invention relates generally to chemical agents useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of infection by pathogenic or potentially pathogenic entities, or entities capable of opportunistic infection in mammals, including humans and primates, non-mammalian animals and avian species. More particularly, the present invention provides a chemical agent of the macrocyclic diterpene family obtainable from a member of the Euphorbiaceae family of plants or botanical or horticultural relatives thereof or derivatives or chemical analogues or chemically synthetic forms of the agents for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of infection by pathogenic entities in mammalian, animal and avian subjects. The present invention further contemplates a method for the prophylaxis and / or treatment in mammalian, animal or avian subjects of infection or potential infection by pathogenic entities by the topical or systemic administration of a macrocyclic diterpene obtainable from a member of the Euphorbiaceae family of plants or their botanical or horticultural derivatives or a derivative, chemical analogue or chemically synthetic form of the agent. The chemical agent of the present invention may be in the form of a purified compound, mixture of compounds, a precursor form of one or more of the compounds capable of chemical transformation into a therapeutically active agent or in the form of a chemical fraction, sub-fraction, preparation or extract of the plant.

A method for the augmentation of immune function is described. The invention comprises a combination of β-1,3 (4)-endoglucanohydrolase, β-1,3 (4)glucan, diatomaceous earth, mineral clay and glucomannan, which is fed to or consumed by mammalian or avian species in amounts sufficient to augment immune function. The invention described may be admixed with feeds or foods, incorporated into pelleted feeds or foods or administered orally to mammalian and avian species.

The invention discloses a technique for producing methane with kitchen residue, straw fecal and active sludge as raw material, and relates to the key technique of methane production and a high solid methane fermentation reactor. It is characterized in: rigid anaerobic environment, adequate and good inoculum, necessary fermentation temperature, proper acid-base scale, proper fermentation concentration and carbon-hydrogen ration; the breeding speed safeguard of zymogeneous bacteria in fermentate; the killing of toxic and harmful bacterium; and the high solid reactor of stable operation. The invention is characterized in that it has significant academic meaning and practical meaning for producing methane with low investment, high stability and clean production.