Effects of supplemental essential oil on growth performance, lipid metabolites and immunity, intestinal characteristics, microbiota and carcass traits in broilers

Livestock Science

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 253-262

  Hong, Jia Chi ^a   Steiner, Tobias ^b   Aufy, Ahmed ^b   Lien, Tu Fa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Broilers; Carcass traits; Essential oil; Growth performance; Immunity; Intestinal characteristic

Indexed keywords

AVES; CITRUS; ORIGANUM; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84856953655     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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