Effects of adequate or marginal excess of dietary methionine hydroxy analogue free acid on growth performance, edible meat yields and inflammatory response in female broiler chickens

Journal of Poultry Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 265-272

  Matsushita, Koichi ^a   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^b   Akiba, Yukio ^b  

^a Yamanashi Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Female broiler; Inflammatory response; Meat yields; Methionine source

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 34547566550     PISSN: 13467395     EISSN: 13490486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2141/jpsa.44.265     Document Type: Article

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