Feeding flaxseed to chicken hens changes the size and fatty acid composition of their chicks' brains.

Rosemary H Whittle, Elijah G Kiarie, David W L Ma, Tina M Widowski

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

Effects of Maternal Omega-3 Supplementation, Sex, and Strain on Chick Behaviour During Social Isolation.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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Modulating Blood-Brain Barrier Metabolites of Broiler Chickens Through Dietary Flaxseed Oil.Biomolecules · 2026
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Significance of successive feeding of sources of n-3 fatty acids to broiler breeders and their progeny on growth performance, intestinal lesion scores, lymphoid organs weight and plasma immunoglobulin A in broiler chickens challenged with Eimeria.Poultry science · 2024
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Rosemary H WhittleDepartment of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.

Elijah G KiarieDepartment of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.

David W L MaDepartment of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.

Tina M WidowskiDepartment of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diets fed to commercial chicken breeders are high in n-6 fatty acids (n-6 FAs) and low in n-3 fatty acids (n-3 FAs). N-3 FAs are essential for embryonic brain development. In precocial birds, like chickens, brain development and brain n-3 FA accrual occur primarily before hatching. In two experiments, broiler and layer breeders were fed diets with or without flaxseed as the source of n-3 FAs from plant-based alpha-linolenic acid. Day-old broiler (

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brain sizebroilerchickenlayermaternal dietomega-3 fatty acids

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PMID38911324

DOI10.3389/fphys.2024.1400611

PMCPMC11190958

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