Adrenal steroid, blocking agent, and social stress effects on northern fowl mite population development on Leghorn chickens and toxicological evaluation of selected acaricides (Acarina: <i>macronyssidae</i>)
Administration of adrenal steroids or blocking agents at optimum doses influenced northern fowl mite development on chickens. Corticosterone at 20 ppm or desoxycorticosterone at 30 ppm in feed were most effective in inhibiting mite infestations. High levels of social stress increased resistance of c...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38708 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07082010-020150/ |