Effect of dietary supplementation with Morinda citrifolia on productivity and egg quality of laying hens

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dc.creatorDairon Más-Toro
dc.creatorYordan Martínez-Aguilar
dc.creatorRomán Rodríguez-Bertot
dc.creatorCesar Betancur-Hurtado
dc.creatorOsmani Rosabal-Nava
dc.date2015
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:51:50Z
dc.descriptionIn order to evaluate the dietary supplementation of powdered leaves of Morinda citrifolia on productivity and egg quality of laying hens, a total of 160 White leghorn birds (Hybrid l-33) of 27 weeks of age were allotted during 70 days, according to completely randomized design. Dietary treatments consisted of a control diet fed without or with 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% of powdered leaves of M. citrifolia. Supplementation of 1.0 and 1.5% of M. citrifolia powder increased the egg weight (P<0.05), however, laying intensity, body weight, feed intake, unsuitable eggs, eggshell surface, mass conversion, haugh units and height of the dense white and of the yolk showed no significant differences (P>0.05) among treatments. Also, supplementation of 0.5 and 1.0% of M. citrifolia increased the shell thickness and the yolk color was pigmented by this medicinal plant. Itrecommended the dietary supplementation of 1.0% of powdered leaves of M. citrifolia on laying hen diets to improve the egg weight, shell thickness and yolk color.
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dc.identifier0122-8420
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=560058661001
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/473692
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5600
dc.rightsCiencia y Agricultura
dc.sourceCiencia y Agricultura (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.12
dc.subjectAgrociencias
dc.titleEffect of dietary supplementation with Morinda citrifolia on productivity and egg quality of laying hens
dc.typeartículo científico

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