TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Effects of Rare Earth-Chitosan on Growth Performances and Serum Components in Sichuan Bone-Black Chicken
AU - , Yi Zhang AU - , Ding-Gang Zhou AU - , Shi-Yi CHEN AU - , Hong-Wei Liu 
JO  - Research Journal of Poultry Sciences
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SP  - 44
EP  - 48
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5285
DO  - rjpscience.2008.44.48
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjpscience.2008.44.48
KW  - Rare earth-chitosan
KW  -growth
KW  -serum parameters
KW  -sichuan bone-black chick
AB  - The experiment was conducted to study the effects of different dose levels of Rare earth-chitosan on growth performances and serum components in Sichuan bone-black chicken. A total of 192 one day old Sichuan bone-black chickens were sampled and randomly allotted to four dietary treatments (12 birds per pen with 4 pens per treatment); the experiment period were 56 days. After determining the appropriate treatment dose, we studied further the effect on these traits by adding Rare-earth, Chitosan and Rare earth-chitosan, separately. The further study included 192 one day old Sichuan bone-black chickens, sampled and randomly allotted to 4 dietary treatments, 12 per pen with 4 pens per treatment and period were 56 days. The results showed that Rare earth-chitosan significantly elevated the average weight and average daily gain in Sichuan bone-black  chicken  and  the  fitting  addition  dose  was  0.10%.  As to the serum components, both the Rare earth-chitosan and Rare-earth, improved the serum of calcium, decreased the concentration of serum cholesterol and alkaline phosphatase (p&lt;0.05) and the Rare earth-chitosan treatment had better results. Based on these results,  we  concluded  that  the  fittest  addition  dose  of Rare earth-chitosan is 0.10 %; the effects of Rare earth-chitosan on growth performances and Serum components in Sichuan bone-black chicken are better than adding Rare-earth and Chitosan separately.
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