Dietary supplementation with sodium butyrate: growth, gut response at different ages, and meat quality of female and male broiler chickens

Dietary supplementation with sodium butyrate: growth, gut response at different ages, and meat quality of female and male broiler chickens

The present study aimed to evaluate how dietary supplementation with a microencapsulated sodium butyrate (500 mg/kg; 30% Na-butyrate) in 768 male and female broiler chickens affected growth performance, jejunum gut morphology and caecal microbiome at different ages (11, 24, and 35 d), slaughter resu...

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Main Authors: Antón Pascual, Angela Trocino, Marco Birolo, Barbara Cardazzo, Francesco Bordignon, Cristina Ballarin, Lisa Carraro, Gerolamo Xiccato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-12-01
Series:Italian Journal of Animal Science
Subjects:
sodium-butyrate
growth
gut microbiome
myopathies
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2020.1824590

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