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Response to lysine intake in composition of body weight gain and efficiency of lysine utilization of growing male chickens from two genotypes.
Poultry science - 1 Aug 2004
Fatufe A A, Timmler R, Rodehutscord M
Abstract excerpt
Male chickens of a broiler (B) and a layer (L) genotype were grown in floor pens from d 8 to 21 posthatch in groups of 10. Three pens per genotype were allocated to each of 10 experimental diets. The diets were offered ad libitum and they differed in lysine concentration from 3.8 to 16.8 g/kg. The source of supplemental lysine was L-lysine x HCl. All birds were killed at the end of the experiment, and...
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