Effect of incubation system on the development of intestinal villi, metabolism, and performance of one- to forty-day-old broiler chickens

ABSTRACT An experiment was performed to evaluate the effect of the incubation system ― multiple-stage (MS) and single-stage (SS) ― on the characteristics at hatching, intestinal morphology, metabolism, and performance of Cobb-500 chickens from 1 to 40 d of age. A total of 1,968 fertile eggs were inc...

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Main Authors: Araceli Pacheco Villanueva, Patrícia Diniz Ebling, Gabriel Colombo Pontalti, Andréa Machado Leal Ribeiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
Series:Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982016000900524&lng=en&tlng=en