Carnitine Supplemented Diet to Prevent or Alleviate Ascites in Broiler Type Poultry
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2002-12-03Author
Teeter, Robert G.
Owen, Kevin Q.
Board of Regents/Oklahoma State University and the A & M Colleges
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An effective amount of carnitine is administered to broiler type poultry to prevent or alleviate ascites. In the preferred embodiment, a carnitine supplemented diet is fed to broiler type chickens in a feed composition during the phase of rapid tissue accretion where a high oxygen requirement stresses the birds' cardiovascular support system. The feed composition preferably contains between 5 and 1000 ppm of carnitine.
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