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Broiler
About: Broiler is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15730 publications have been published within this topic receiving 262748 citations. The topic is also known as: broiler chicken.
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TL;DR: In the present study, both plant extracts improved the digestibility of the feeds for broilers and the effect of different additives on digestibility improved the performance slightly, but this effect was not statistically significant.
945 citations
TL;DR: Two hundred forty male Avian Farms broiler chicks, 1 d of age, were randomly allocated to four treatments, each of which had five pens of 12 chicks per pen, to investigate the effects of fructooligosaccharide (FOS) on digestive enzyme activities and intestinal microflora and morphology.
755 citations
TL;DR: Body weight, feed consumption, and mortality were measured in the 1957 Athens-Canadian Randombred Control (ACRBC) strain and in the 2001 Ross 308 strain of broilers when fed representative 1957 and 2001 diets.
741 citations
TL;DR: The dietary supplementations resulted in an increase in the villus height and crypt depth of intestinal mucosa of broilers and associated with improvement of growth performance for both synbiotic and probiotic.
678 citations
TL;DR: In conclusion, probiotic treatment PFW displayed a growth-promoting effect that was comparable to avilamycin treatment, and modulated the composition and, to an extent, the activities of the cecal microflora, resulting in a significant probiotic effect.
585 citations