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/Apr/1999
Sebastião Aparecido Borges, Joji Ariki, Cyntia Ludovico Martins, Vera Maria Barbosa de Moraes
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-35981999000200014
The experiment was conducted to estimate the effect of heat stress and the potassium chloride (KCl) supplementation on performance and physiological characteristics (hematological parameters, rectal temperature) of broiler chicks. Forty birds, from 42 to 49 days, were submitted to heat stress (16 hours in 25 ± 1°C, two hours at increasing temperature, four hours in 35 ± 1°C and two hours at decreasing temperature until 25±1°C, with 63.5 ± 5% humidity) fed the following treatments: .50 and 1.00% KCl in […]
Keywords: electrolytes; heat stress; hematology; potassium chloride; water