The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
The Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication dedicated to the broad field of Animal Science. We publish high-quality, original scientific research that spans across diverse areas within the discipline. The scope of RBZ encompasses a wide range of topics, including aquaculture, biometeorology and animal welfare, forage crops and grasslands, animal and forage plants breeding and genetics, animal reproduction, ruminant and non-ruminant nutrition, meat science and muscle biology, precision livestock, and animal production systems and agribusiness.
01/Jun/2001
José Mauricio Sthel de Barros, Paulo Cezar Gomes, Horacio Santiago Rostagno, Luiz Fernando Teixeira Albino, Adriana Helena do Nascimento
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35982001000400019
Eight hundred Avian Farms chicks (50% males; 50% females) from 1 to 21 days of age, averaging 40.5 g, fed a basal diet (3.000 kcal ME/kg and 21.1% CP) deficient in sodium (0.017%) and supplemented with NaCl, corresponding to the levels of 0.077, 0.137, 0.197, 0.257 and 0.317% total sodium, were used to determine the sodium requirement. A completely randomized design, in a 5×2 (sodium levels x sex) factorial design, with four replicates and 20 chicks per experimental unit, were used. […]
Keywords: adrenal gland; broiler chicks; carcass; nutritional requirements; salt; sodium