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Effects Of Dietary Melamine Or Urea-Formaldehyde Or Their Mixtures On Performance, Carcass Quality, Melamine Residues And Microscopic Changes In Broiler Tissues, Srisuda Sirilaophaisan, Jowaman Khajarern, Bundit Tengjarernkul
Effects Of Dietary Melamine Or Urea-Formaldehyde Or Their Mixtures On Performance, Carcass Quality, Melamine Residues And Microscopic Changes In Broiler Tissues, Srisuda Sirilaophaisan, Jowaman Khajarern, Bundit Tengjarernkul
The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine
A study was conducted to determine the effects of dietary graded levels of melamine, urea-formaldehyde (UF) and their mixture on growth performance, carcass quality, melamine residues and microscopic changes in broiler tissues from d-1 to d-42 followed by a 7-d feeding of withdrawal diets. One thousand and forty 1-d-old equal mixed-sex Arber Acres broiler were assigned to 13 dietary treatments with 4 replicate pens of 20 chicks assigned to each treatment. The diets of melamine, UF and their mixture contained four graded levels (0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1.00%) but no melamine or UF was added to the control diet. There …