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