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Dietary digestible lysine immune responses and carcass nitrogen of broiler chickens in starter period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2017

F Alemi
Affiliation:
Tehran University, Karaj-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
M Shivazad
Affiliation:
Tehran University, Karaj-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
M Zaghari
Affiliation:
Tehran University, Karaj-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
H Moravej
Affiliation:
Tehran University, Karaj-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
A Mahdavi*
Affiliation:
Tehran University, Karaj-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran Animal Science Researches Institute of Iran, Karaj-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
S A Hosseini
Affiliation:
Tehran University, Karaj-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran Animal Science Researches Institute of Iran, Karaj-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
A Mahdavi*
Affiliation:
Sharif University, Tehran-Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
S Savar Sofla
Affiliation:
Azad University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
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Extract

lysine is an essential amino acid that promotes normal growth by helping to maintain the proper protein balance in the body. Most vegetable protein sources used in poultry diet formulations are moderate to low in lysine contents; hence supplementation with lysine is inevitable in growing broilers to ensure rapid growth and optimum efficiency of feed utilization. Adequate supply of nutrients during the starter improves gut development and could result in long term improvements in feed utilization. In order to evaluate the effect of different digestible lysine dietary levels on growth and immune response in starter, this experiment was done.

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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2009

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