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Effect of Adding Lycopene to the Ration in some Blood Traits of Broiler Ross 308

Published: April 5, 2018

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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...

Effect of Adding Lycopene to the Ration in some Blood Traits of Broiler Ross 308

Published: April 5, 2018

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Assistant Professor Dr Nihad Alnidawi

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Atef Abou Zead

11 de abril de 2018

Is the lycopene has a role in humoral immunity of birds ?

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Giang Vu Duy

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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STEPHEN OSEI

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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