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Effects of diet and gizzard muscularity on grit use in domestic chickens

The gizzard is the only gastrointestinal organ for mechanical processing in birds. Many birds use grit in the gizzard to enhance mechanical processing efficiency. We conducted an experiment to test the factors that affect chicken grit use in 68 male layer chicks of Gallus gallus domesticus, which we...

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Autores principales: Takasaki, Ryuji, Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7666813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33240626
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10277