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The length of the feed restriction period affects eating behavior, growth performance, and the development of the proximal part of the gastrointestinal tract of young broilers

Published: September 22, 2021
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INTRODUCTION Feed management practices, aiming to improve animal welfare without increasing production cost, are becoming more important for the poultry industry (Mateos et al., 2012). In broilers, ad libitum feeding of pellet feeds is associated with a reduction in starch digestibility (Svihus and Hetland, 2001; Abdollahi et al., 2011; Serrano et al., 2013) and an increase in the incidence of...
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Guillermo Fondevila
Algoa Pecuaria SL
Joan Lluis Archs Toledo
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM
Lourdes Cámara Garcia
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM
Gonzalo Gonzalez Mateos
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM
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George Entz
23 de septiembre de 2021
Well done, very nice article. I have seen the same results in the field, and regularly used 6 + hours of darkness with no negative effects at 38 days.
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