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Interest in the serum color as an indirect criterion of selection of digestive efficiency in chickens.
Poultry science - 1 Feb 2020
Mignon-Grasteau Sandrine, Beauclercq Stéphane, Urvoix Séverine, Le Bihan-Duval Elisabeth
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Improving the digestive efficiency of birds is becoming increasingly important with the diversification of feedstuffs used in poultry diets. Compared with time-consuming chemical analyses that were previously used to measure digestive efficiency, near-infrared spectroscopy has been a great advance as it was fast and thus allowed measurements to be taken from a large number of animals, as required for genetic...
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