Shuzhen Jiang

TL;DR: A study using 144 one-day-old Arbor Acres broilers was conducted to assess the effects of dried ginger root (Zingiber officinale) that was processed to particle sizes of 300, 149, 74, 37, and 8.4 μm on growth performance, antioxidant status, and serum metabolites of broiler chickens as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Dietary supplementation of ginger powder improved laying performance and serum and egg yolk antioxidant status and enhanced dietary oxidation stability in a dose-dependent manner.

TL;DR: Results showed that besides genital organs, the liver, kidney, and spleen may also be target tissues in young gilts fed diets containing 1.1 to 3.2 mg of ZEA/kg for 18 d, and increased key liver enzymes in the serum suggest progressive liver damage caused by feeding ZEA, and an increase in oxidative stress in gilts is another potential impact of Z EA toxicity in pigs.

TL;DR: It is suggested that feeding ZEA at about 1.0 mg/kg for 24 days might result in a deleterious effect in pigs, and addition of 5 or 10 g clay enterosorbent per kg diet can effectively neutralize the detrimental effects of the ZEA feeding.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to determine the extent to which dietary Methionine (Met) could be replaced by Betaine (BET) in broiler chickens under the feeding conditions specific to Chinese poultry industry.