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Effect of dietary nucleotide supplementation on broiler performance and economic efficiency

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Animal Nutrition

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A total number of two hundred forty-one-day-old broiler chicks (Ross 308) were randomly distributed into four different treatment groups (A, B, C and D), of three replicates (20 chicks / replicate). The chicks in control group (A) were fed negative control diet, group B were fed diet containing (Nucleoforce®) (0.025%) in first 10 days of age, group B were fed diet containing (Nucleoforce®) (0.025%) in first 25 days of age. While group D was fed diet containing Nucleoforce® (0.025%) from zero day till slaughtering. This experiment was designed to investigate the effect of nucleotide as an immunostimulant for broiler chicks in terms of chick performance and economic efficiency. Results showed that, groups fed diet supplemented with Nucleoforce recorded improvements in live body weight, body weight gain and relative growth rate with no significant difference in feed intake and feed conversion index than the control group. Economic efficiency showed non-significant difference between control group and other groups but group (D) recorded high value 0.94 more than control group (A) 0.84. It was concluded that, inclusion of nucleotide 0.025% in broiler diets had a positive role in improvement of final body weight, body weight gain, feed conversion ratio and economic efficiency.

DOI

10.21608/bvmj.2020.37547.1234

Keywords

broiler chicks, Nucleotide feeding, Chick performance and Economic efficiency

Authors

First Name

reda

Last Name

zahran

MiddleName

hamed

Affiliation

nutrition &clinical nutrition ,veterinary medicine,banha university

Email

reda.hamed@fvtm.bu.edu.eg

City

toukh

Orcid

0000-0003-2301-8310

First Name

Nasser

Last Name

Khader

MiddleName

elsayed

Affiliation

Nutrition and clinical Nutrition, Veterinary medicine, Banha University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

nasser.khader@fvtm.bu.edu.eg

City

Toukh

Orcid

0000-0003-4112-1637

First Name

tahia

Last Name

ahmed

MiddleName

elsayed

Affiliation

nutrition and clinical nutrition, veterinary medicine, banha university, alzaqaziq, Egypt

Email

tahiah.ismail01@fvtm.bu.edu.eg

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alzaqaziq

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Volume

39

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1

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17601

Issue Date

2020-09-01

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2020-07-28

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2020-09-01

Page Start

34

Page End

39

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1110-6581

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Original Article

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812

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Benha Veterinary Medical Journal

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Effect of dietary nucleotide supplementation on broiler performance and economic efficiency

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22 Jan 2023