1. Hot-melt extruded copper sulfate affects the growth performance, meat quality, and copper bioavailability of broiler chickens
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Abdolreza Hosseindoust, MinJu Kim, Tae Gyun Kim, JunHyung Lee, Byung Jo Chae, and Kwang Yeoul Kim
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Nutrient digestibility ,General Veterinary ,Physiology ,Broiler ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Copper sulfate ,Body weight ,Copper ,Bioavailability ,Cecum ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Animal science ,chemistry ,Genetics ,medicine ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Hot melt ,Food Science - Abstract
Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of the supplementation of diets of broiler chickens with hot-melt extruded CuSO4 (HME-Cu) on their growth performance, nutrient digestibility, gut microbiota, small intestinal morphology, meat quality, and copper (Cu) bioavailability.Methods: A total of 225 broilers (Ross 308), one-day old and initial weight 39.14 g, were weighed and distributed between 15 cages (15 birds per cage) in a completely randomized experimental design with 3 treatments (diets) and 5 replicates per treatment. Cages were allotted to three treatments including control (without supplemental Cu), IN-Cu (16 mg/kg of CuSO4), and HME-Cu (16 mg/kg of HME processed CuSO4).Results: The HME-Cu treatment tended to increase the overall body weight gain (p
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- 2022