Influence of dietary boric acid and liquid humate inclusion on bone characteristics, growth performance and carcass traits in broiler chickens
ARCHIV FUR GEFLUGELKUNDE, cilt.77, sa.4, ss.260-265, 2013 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- 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.