Dietary Electrolyte Balance In Poultry

Effects of dietary electrolyte balance and addition of electrolyte betaine supplements in feed or water on performance acid base balance and water retention in heat stressed broilers.

Dietary electrolyte balance in poultry. Mongin 1981 indicated that growth is optimized when the deb is 250 meq kg but the usefulness of the equation for predicting the growth of birds especially during. Sodium na potassium k and chloride cl. Cl is an anion and carries a negative charge. In poultry nutrition deb is expressed as na k cl in meq kg or diet or in meq 100 g of diet.

Th e use of some divalent ions can interfere with electrolyte balance. Poultry stop eating and there are various behavioral responses such as squatting and wing spreading. Infusion of acth significantly increased p 0 05 hematocrit hemoglobin partial pres key words. A more comprehensive estimate however takes into account the contribution of divalent ions of calcium magnesium sulfur and phosphorus but it is used less frequently because it.

The value of dietary electrolyte balance deb defined as the concentrations of na k cl in meq kg as a practical predictor of growth in poultry is unresolved. The major effect of this is the development of a complex alienation of the body chemistry following a rise in the deep body temperature. Electrolytes dietary electrolyte balance and salts in broilers. Th us supplementation of calcium chloride cacl2 in the diet can induce acidosis in poultry contrary to chloride sources such as nacl and kcl which are associated with acidosis to a much lesser extent.

Electrolytes sodium potassium and chloride are compounds that dissolve into positive and negative particles in solution. Loss of electrolyte balance is perhaps the most serious outcome. Electrolyte diet acid base balance stress adrenocorticotropic hormone broiler 2007 poultry science 86 1363. Lost electrolyte balance results in the loss of potassium sodium and bicarbonate in an increasing urine output.

The deb level measures these important electrolytes in the poultry diet. Na and k are cations carrying a positive charge. Be supplemented with sulfates to ensure electrolyte balance. British poultry science vol.

All the body systems are affected when dietary electrolyte balance deb is lost. Dietary electrolyte balance deb also known as cation anion difference cad is calculated using only the monovalent ions of sodium potassium and chlorine. A total of 68 poultry feed samples were collected from multan rawalpindi and. An updated review on growth performance water intake and litter quality.