Dietary organic acids in turkey nutrition - new results with an acidifier based on sodium formate and formic acid
Published: May 10, 2012
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Introduction Gastrointestinal diseases pose a serious threat to commercial poultry production. Infections with pathogenic bacteria and their subsequent translocation to other organs and tissues, cause deterioration of feed conversion, increase mortality and reduce productivity. A number of studies have shown enhanced nutritional and growth parameters in poultry, using organic acids. However, m...
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13 de junio de 2012
Yes, I conclude that we need to wait 145 days to see a difference for the Body Weight.
What is the result of the statistical Analysis?
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13 de junio de 2012
Agreed, therefore the trial was carried out for almost 21 weeks in a commercial turkey farm in Germany.
As to your question on statistics...unfortunately the collected data were pooled son no statistical analysis could be carried out. Only the numerical differences are available.
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13 de junio de 2012
OK,
Do you have an explanation about the fact that at P5 the difference is small
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13 de junio de 2012
No ,not really. The first authors (were present at the farm), reported that the overall growth was sub-optimal in both groups during the summer month and concluded that the compensatory growth in the treated group was better in P6. Why the difference was so small in P5 was not investigated.
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