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Title: 
Strategies to minimize heat stress in broilers chickens
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Strategies to minimize heat stress in broilers chickens
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Institution: 
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
ISSN: 
0032-5791
Abstract: 
The objective of this study was to evaluate the application of early age thermal conditioning (TC) and dietary electrolyte balances (DEB) to minimize the effect of heat stress. A total of 240 Cobb 500 1-d-old male broiler chicks was randomly allocated to 24 floor pens with six replicates per treatment in a 2x2 factorial arrangement (with and without TC and with and without DEB). Dietary treatments consisted: (T1) a traditional diet without TC; (T2) traditional diet with TC; (T3) with the application of dietary electrolyte and without TC and (T4) application of dietary electrolyte with TC. The thermal conditioning was conducted at 5 d of age (36°C for 24 h), only half of the batch (120 birds). After this period, all birds were transferred to boxes of 1.5 x 3m (10 birds / box), with wood shavings reused as litter. Chicks were exposed to chronic heat stress (32°C) for 6 h from 35 to 39 d of age, in all treatments, being electronically monitored the temperature and humidity of the microclimate of the birds. Feed and water were provided ad libitum, even during periods of stress. Were measured performance data (weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion) and mortality rate. Data were subjected to ANOVA using the GLM procedures of SAS. The results of this study demonstrated no interaction effects of all evaluated parameters (performance and mortality). Therefore, no synergism occurred when both strategies (TC and DEB) were applied. Only the first week there was prejudice on broiler performance with the application of the TC and apparently the technique of early age thermal conditioning no improve the resistance of broilers to chronic heat stress. On the other hand, DEB had significantly favorable effects (P<0.05) on performance and minimized mortality immediately after application of the TC.
Issue Date: 
2014
Citation: 
Poultry Science, v. 93, n. E-suppl.1, p. 263-264, 2014.
Time Duration: 
263-264
Keywords: 
  • Chronic heat stress
  • Cation-anion balance
  • Dietary cation-anion
  • Electrolyte diet
  • Thermal conditioning
Source: 
http://www.poultryscience.org/psa14/abstracts/234.pdf
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http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/133057
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