Four hundred and eighty broilers were assigned to a completely randomized design with a 6×2 arrangement (six levels of manganese and 2 sexes – male and female) and four replicates to determine the manganese requirements in the growing (22 to 42 days) and finishing (43 to 54 days) phases. Six and four birds per experimental unit, respectively, were used in the first and second trials. In both trials, the treatments consisted of a basal diet deficient in manganese (6.5 ppm) […]

With the objective of evaluating increasing levels of calcium in diets supplemented with the enzyme phytase for chickens from 1 to 21 days of age, an experiment was conducted using 600 1-d old Hubbard-MPK strain chicks. The broilers were allotted to a completely randomized design, factorial arrangement five x two (levels of calcium x sexes), three replicates and 20 birds per plot. The basal ration with 0.54% total phosphorus and 600 units of phytase/kg, was formulated to meet the nutritional […]

The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the different levels of manganese and phosphorus (P) on the performance and eggshell quality and on determined blood constituents of 96 laying hens Hy-Line W36, with 60 weeks of age, distributed in 24 lots with four hens each. A completely randomized experimental design was used in a factorial arrangement (3 x 2), manganese levels (70, 140 and 210 ppm) and total phosphorus levels (.35 and .55%), totalizing six treatments with four replicates […]