Effects of organic mineral dietary supplementation on production performance and egg quality of white layers
| Autor: | JIM Fernandes, AE Murakami, MI Sakamoto, LMG Souza, A Malaguido, EN Martins |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 59-65 (2008) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1516-635X 1806-9061 |
| DOI: | 10.1590/S1516-635X2008000100009 |
| Popis: | This trial aimed at evaluating the effect of organic trace mineral supplementation of commercial layer diets on productive performance and egg quality. One-hundred-ninety-two Hy Line W36 white 69-w-old layers were distributed into a completely randomized design with three treatments, and eight replicates, with eight birds each. Treatments consisted of a basal diet supplemented with inorganic trace minerals (R1), and two others experimental diets containing 0.250 ppm (R2) and 0.500 ppm (R3) of an organic source of zinc, manganese, and selenium. Feed intake (g/bird/day), feed conversion ratio (kg/dozen egg and kg/kg egg), egg weight (g), egg production (%), thin and cracked eggshells (%), specific gravity (g/mL), Haugh Units, total egg solids (%), yolk yield, white and shell yields (%), eggshell thickness, and egg Se content were evaluated Tukey's test analyzed differences among means at 5% of probability using PROC GLM in SAS (2000). Although not significant as compared to the non-supplemented diet, improvements on relative cracked-plus-thin shells were observed with the use of organic mineral blend. The addition of the organic blend to the diet at 0.250 kg/ton resulted in (p |
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