ArticleArchives animal breeding2026
Enhancement of productive performance, nutrient digestibility, and meat quality in broilers subjected to cyclic heat stress via different organic and inorganic chromium concentrations.
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Dietary chromium (Cr) supplementation of chickens may be a tool to reduce heat stress and its associated consequences. This study aims to investigate the effect of supplementation with various levels of inorganic and organic Cr on productive performance, nutrient digestibility, and meat quality in broiler chickens subjected to cyclic heat stress. A total of 245 as-hatched, 1 d old broiler chickens were randomly assigned to seven treatments, each with seven replicates of five birds. The control group received a basal diet without Cr supplementation. In the six other groups, chickens were fed a basal diet supplemented with 100, 200, and 400 ppb of organic and inorganic Cr. From days 25 to 42 d of age, the birds were subjected to heat stress for 3 consecutive days per week. Within chromium-supplemented treatments, the interaction between source and level of Cr influenced body weight gain (BWG) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) (
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