Interest in the serum color as an indirect criterion of selection of digestive efficiency in chickens

Improving the digestive efficiency of birds is becoming increasingly important with the diversification of feedstuffs used in poultry diets. Compared with time-consuming chemical analyses that were previously used to measure digestive efficiency, near-infrared spectroscopy has been a great advance a...

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Main Authors: Sandrine Mignon-Grasteau, Stéphane Beauclercq, Séverine Urvoix, Elisabeth Le Bihan-Duval
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:Poultry Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119406068