Vitamins in poultry nutrition Technical Articles
Article published the March 2, 2023:
Oxidative stress is a biological process which is produced as a result of an imbalance between the generation of oxygen free radicals and the antioxidants that remove them, favorable to the first ones. In ...
Article published the February 27, 2023:
PrologueHeat stress brings about major physiological changes in poultry birds, which negatively affects feed intake, feed efficiency, production, performance, reproductive efficiency, and disease outbreaks. Red...
Article published the February 27, 2023:
Effects of heat stress on plasma calcium concentration, egg production and egg qualityHighly productive modern poultry breeds are more prone to heat stress and rising global temperatures is one of the greatest ...
Article published the February 27, 2023:
The current study was conducted to determine the availability of Lutavit® A 1000 NXT (A-1000), a vitamin (Vit) A acetate product, after a 56-d incubation period. Four Vit A sources (A-1000, B, C, and D) wer...
Article published the February 13, 2023:
Oxidative stress in poultryPoultry is one of the fastest growing segments of animal industry and has a substantial contribution to food security and nutrition. Birds are exposed to a multitude of stressors of e...
Article published the January 31, 2023:
PrologueEnergy is the most elusive nutrient in poultry diets. Simply reducing the energy content in poultry feed may not be a viable option for cost-saving in feed formulation. An economical solution is to enab...
Article published the December 13, 2022:
1. IntroductionNutrition plays a pivotal role in maintaining the health of pullets, quality egg production by laying hens and body growth of broilers (Wang et al. 2017). Nutraceuticals are the nutrients or cons...
Article published the November 28, 2022:
Introduction:Vitamins are defined as a group of complex organic substances that are essential for normal metabolism and their deficiency in the diet causes disorders among animal species.These essential nutrien...
Article published the November 3, 2022:
Vitamin D, also known as calciferol, is the inactive form of vitamin D that can be ingested through diet or be generated endogenously in the skin when exposed to UV light. Vitamin D is converted into its active...
Article published the September 23, 2022:
I. INTRODUCTION Early life stress may have a negative impact on the performance of broiler flocks. It has been observed that a severe cold stress (12°C below the normal temperature) throughout the life cycl...