Influence of dietary boric acid and liquid humate inclusion on bone characteristics, growth performance and carcass traits in broiler chickens

YILDIZ G., KÖKSAL B. H., SIZMAZ Ö.

ARCHIV FUR GEFLUGELKUNDE, cilt.77, sa.4, ss.260-265, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 77 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Dergi Adı: ARCHIV FUR GEFLUGELKUNDE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.260-265
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Broiler, boron, humate, bone characteristics, performance, carcass, robustness index, BORON SUPPLEMENTATION, PARAMETERS, SERUM
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study aimed to investigate the effects of boric acid (BA) and liquid humate (LH, combination of humic-fulvic-ulmic acids) supplementation to diets on bone characteristics, performance and some carcass traits in broiler chickens. The experiment was a factorial arrangement in a complete randomized design and was conducted for 42 d. Two hundred fifty six, one day old broilers (Ross 308) with an average initial weight of 42.0 +/- 0.12 g have been assigned to 4 treatments in a 2 (boric acid supplemental levels; 0 and 30 ppm) x 2 (liquid humate supplemental levels; 0 and 5 ml kg(-1)) factorial arrangement with 4 replications, each having 16 birds. Feed and water intake was ad libitum for whole 42 days of experimental period.