Effect of Adding Lycopene to the Ration in some Blood Traits of Broiler Ross 308
Published: April 5, 2018
Summary
Introduction Lycopene is a pigment red or infrastructure that exist in some vegetables and fruits (pineapple, orange, tomato, grapefruit, strawberries and sweet peppers) but found high concentrations in tomato (Agarwal and Rao, 2000) and lycopene derived carotenoid is a natural dye manufactured Some plants and microorganisms during the process of photosynthesis to protect it from the optical a...
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11 de abril de 2018
Is the lycopene has a role in humoral immunity of birds ?
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12 de abril de 2018
Giang Vu Duy
Professor of Animal Nutrition
Gac is grown in Vietnam (gac fruit: Momordica cochinchinensis). Lycopene is abundant in gac, lycopene content in gac is 2-3 times higher than that of tomatoes. However, I do not know how one can separate lycopene from gac and refine it into a feed additive to supplement in the chicken diets.
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12 de abril de 2018
This is an interesting piece of work with interesting results. I have two questions/suggestions, however:
1. Commercial broiler farmers are more appreciative of the cost/benefit analysis but this research completely ignores parameters like growth rate and final body weight
2. How was lycopene added to the diets?
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2 de julio de 2019
STEPHEN OSEI Thank you so much
There is a manuscript on the effect of lycopene on production performance
with respect
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15 de agosto de 2019
Hi Doctor
Go ahead, I'm ready
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