The effect of sodium and chloride supplements on performance, balance indices and excreta dry matter in broiler chickens fed high potassium diets.

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Author	Koreleski, Jerzy Świątkiewicz, Sylwester Arczewska, A.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	The relationship between cation and anion electrolytes in broiler diets is complicated and related primarily to chicken electrolyte requirements and dietary level of K+, Na+ and Cl(MONGIN, 1981), ambient temperature and water supply (BORGES et al., 2003). In the case of heat-stressed broilers in particular, considerable variations in dietary electrolytes may affect the chicken's acid base balance, apparent ileal digestibility of several amino acids, apparent metabolizable energy and ileal nitrogen digestibility (RAVINDRAN et al., 2008), and incidence of tibial dyschondroplasia (MUKARAMI et al., 2003). It may also alter pH in the crop, although the pH in the remaining parts of the digestive tract was unaffected (RILEY and AUSTIC, 1984). High levels of potassium in diets of plant-derived ingredients based on corn and soybean meal (VIEIRA and LIMA, 2005) can lower Na+ : K+ ratio (JOHNSON and KARUNAJEEWA, 1985) and, when Clis supplemented, may give a relatively high dietary electrolyte balance level (MONGIN, 1981). In an earlier experiment (KORELESKI et al., 2010), high potassium and adequate chloride diets were supplemented with a very low (0.7 g), low (1.2 g) or moderate (1.7 g · kg–1) level of sodium. Moderate sodium supplementation improved the performance of chicks, carcass yield, nitrogen intake and retention and proportion of N retained to N intake. This paper investigated performance of broiler chickens, dry matter of excreta, nitrogen retention and sodium balance, when plant diets with high levels of potassium and increasing levels of chloride and sodium or high levels of sodium and chloride were fed.
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