Influence of egg pre-storage heating period and storage length on the digestive tract of newly-hatched broiler chicks

An experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of different heating times of settable eggs of Cobb 500® broiler breeders before submitting them to different storage periods on body weight, digestive tract organ weights, and intestinal mucosa morphology of newly-hatched chicks. Settable eggs we...

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Main Authors: FHA Silva, DE Faria, KAA Torres, DE Faria Filho, AAD Coelho, VJM Savino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação APINCO de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas 2008-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2008000100004