Effect of dietary supplementation with Morinda citrifolia on productivity and egg quality of laying hens
| Autor: | Dairon Más-Toro, Yordan Martínez-Aguilar, Román Rodríguez-Bertot, Cesar Betancur-Hurtado, Osmani Rosabal-Nava |
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| Jazyk: | Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Ciencia y Agricultura, Vol 12, Iss 2, Pp 7-12 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0122-8420 01228420 |
| DOI: | 10.19053/01228420.4348 |
| Popis: | In order to evaluate the dietary supplementation of powdered leaves of Morinda citrifolia on productivity and egg quality of laying hens, a total of 160 White Leghorn birds (Hybrid L-33) of 27 weeks of age were allotted during 70 days, according to completely randomized design. Dietary treatments consisted of a control diet fed without or with 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% of powdered leaves of M. citrifolia. Supplementation of 1.0 and 1.5% of M. citrifolia powder increased the egg weight (P0.05) among treatments. Also, supplementation of 0.5 and 1.0% of M. citrifolia increased the shell thickness and the yolk color was pigmented by this medicinal plant. It recommended the dietary supplementation of 1.0% of powdered leaves of M. citrifolia on laying hen diets to improve the egg weight, shell thickness and yolk color. |
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