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Partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the venous blood of young birds as a predictor of ascites susceptibility in broiler chickens.
Acta veterinaria Hungarica - 1 Jun 2010
Hassanzadeh Mohammad, Maddadi Mohammad Sadege, Mirzaie Sarra, Assasie Keramat, Moayyedian Hamid
Abstract excerpt
In order to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide tensions in the venous blood of young chickens and ascites susceptibility, one hundred day-old chickens from two pure broiler breeder lines differing in susceptibility to ascites syndrome were obtained and reared at low environmental temperature. Weekly, blood samples were taken for the determination of blood gas parameters and plasma thyroid hormone...
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