For example, light-weight chicks begged at a relatively high frequency (Sacchi et al. 2002) in barn swallow as well as in Wilson's storm-petrels (Gladbach et al. 2009).
4b and 6b showed better curative effect than 5b at the dose concentration of 40 mg/kg body weight of chicks.
This result was obtained by comparing the last measured weight of chicks prior to fledging (evictors: 84.8±1.88 g, non-evictors: 85.6±2.76 g, U7,7 = 0.13, p = 0.90).
The body weight of chicks decreased when fed on aflatoxin contaminated feed as previously reported by many workers [ 7, 26, 27, 31].
Our study showed that body weight of chicks of group B decreased throughout the course of study whereas those groups receiving aflatoxin contaminated feed along with different levels of adsorbent showed increase in body weight.
These results were in accordance with the work of Miazzo et al. [ 7], Pasha et al. [ 20] in which they studied that adsorbents are effective in preventing or ameliorating the changes in organs weights of chicks fed on aflatoxin B1 contaminated feed.
The results of this study suggest that cyclical lower incubation temperatures (36 °C) at the embryonic age from day 15 17 could induce the liver HSP70 gene expression, without negative effects on the hatchability and body weight of hatched chicks.
The body weight of the chicks increases rapidly in the first few weeks and reaches a plateau of about 3.4 kg in 45 days.
In addition, feeding AA and the combination of AA and FOS increased the breast muscle weight of broiler chicks, while feeding FOS not significantly.
The values of Bursa of fabricious weight of broiler chicks given different levels of adsorbent were non-significant among all the groups (A, B, C, D, E and F).
