Enhancing tolerance to heat stress, resistance to infectious Bursal Disease and expression of heat shock protein 70 in broiler chickens by early age feed restriction.

The hot and humid tropical climate has a highly detrimental effect on growth. feed efficiency, survivability and disease resistance In broiler chickens. Commercial broilers are particularly susceptible to heat stress because metabolic heat production increases with growth rate while heat dissi...

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Main Author: Universiti Putra Malaysia, Research Management Centre
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Research Management Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2003
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/135/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/135/1/synthesis_2.pdf