Article
Effects of dietary T3 on growth parameters and hormone levels in normal and sex-linked dwarf chickens.
Domestic animal endocrinology - 1 Oct 1990
Tixier-Boichard M, Decuypere E, Huybrechts L, Kühn E, Mérat P
Abstract excerpt
Tri-iodothyronine (T3) has been administered in the diet, from day of hatch until 8 weeks of age, to sex-linked dwarf and normal chicks of both sexes from a brown-egg slow-growing strain. Feed was supplemented with either 0.1 ppm or 0.5 ppm T3. A significant genotype by treatment interaction was...
Topics
- Abdomen
- Adipose Tissue
- Administration, Oral
- Animal Feed
- Animals
- Chickens
- Diet
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Genotype
- Growth Hormone
- Hormones
- Insulin-Like Growth Factor I
- Male
- Sex Chromosomes
- Thyroid Hormones
- Triiodothyronine