Lack of Water a Cause of Loose, Slimy Gizzard Linings Accompanying Early Mortality in Poults
1944; Elsevier BV; Volume: 23; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3382/ps.0230477
ISSN1525-3171
Autores Tópico(s)Animal Nutrition and Physiology
ResumoTURKEY growers are occasionally confronted by moderate to severe losses of poults between the fifth and twelfth days after hatching. Typically, such poults show a lack of growth, a loose, slimy gizzard lining that frequently forms a ball that plugs the opening to the duodenum, and no evidence of specific infection. Severe early losses in one lot of poults at the Beltsville Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, prompted the writer to attempt to duplicate the condition experimentally in 1941 and 1942. This paper describes three experiments conducted by the writer and reports his findings. EXPERIMENTAL The first experiment was for the purpose of finding out if large doses of cod liver oil would have detrimental effect on the gizzards of turkeys. Miller and Hammond (1942) had previously found that the addition of large quantities of cod liver oil to a diet for growing chickens increased the severity of gizzard erosion. Four . . .
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