PMID- 8146077
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19940505
LR  - 20200313
IS  - 0032-5791 (Print)
IS  - 0032-5791 (Linking)
VI  - 73
IP  - 2
DP  - 1994 Feb
TI  - Effect of removing trace minerals from the diet of hens laying eggs with heavy or 
      light shell weight.
PG  - 295-301
AB  - Hy-Line W36 hens, 48-wk-old, were used to study the effect of removing either 
      supplemental Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn, or all of them from the diet of hens laying eggs 
      with heavy shell weight (HSW) or light shell weight (LSW). The experiment was 
      conducted for 10 wk. Egg production (EP), egg mass (EM), feed consumption (FC), 
      feed conversion efficiency (FE, grams feed:gram egg), egg weight (EW), shell 
      weight (SW), percentage shell (PS), specific gravity (SG), percentage fertility, 
      percentage hatchability of fertile eggs (HF), and percentage hatchability of 
      total eggs set (HT) were measured. Removing trace minerals from the diet had no 
      significant effect on EP, EM, FC, FE, EW, PS, SG, HF, or HT with either HSW or 
      LSW hens. However, removing Mn from the diet significantly reduced SW with HSW 
      hens. Diet by shell classes (HSW and LSW) interaction was not significant for any 
      variable measured. The HSW hens had significantly higher EW, SW, PS, SG, and EM 
      and lower EP, HF, and HT. However, there were no significant differences on FC or 
      percentage fertility between the two groups of hens.
FAU - Abdallah, A G
AU  - Abdallah AG
AD  - Poultry Science Department, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611-0930.
FAU - Harms, R H
AU  - Harms RH
FAU - Wilson, H R
AU  - Wilson HR
FAU - el-Husseiny, O
AU  - el-Husseiny O
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Poult Sci
JT  - Poultry science
JID - 0401150
RN  - 0 (Trace Elements)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animal Feed
MH  - Animals
MH  - Chickens/*anatomy & histology/physiology
MH  - Eating/drug effects
MH  - Egg Shell/*anatomy & histology/drug effects
MH  - Female
MH  - Fertility/drug effects
MH  - Oviposition/drug effects
MH  - Trace Elements/*administration & dosage
EDAT- 1994/02/01 00:00
MHDA- 1994/02/01 00:01
CRDT- 1994/02/01 00:00
PHST- 1994/02/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1994/02/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1994/02/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - S0032-5791(19)45320-0 [pii]
AID - 10.3382/ps.0730295 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Poult Sci. 1994 Feb;73(2):295-301. doi: 10.3382/ps.0730295.