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L S Kelly

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PubMed1987

Short-term exposure of laying hens to high dietary sodium chloride levels.

Four replicate pens, each containing five individually caged hens received a corn-soy basal diet to which .4, 1, 2, 4, or 6% NaCl was added during two 21-day experiments. An additional bilevel treatment, approximating a reported commercial feed production problem, consisted of 6% NaCl for 7 days followed by .4% NaCl for the remaining 2 weeks. Egg production was significantly reduced by 4 and 6% NaCl in Experiment 1 and by 2, 4, and 6% NaCl in Experiment 2. The switchback treatment (6-.4% NaCl) did not statistically alter overall egg production in either experiment. Daily water consumption increased significantly when more than 1% NaCl was added, and subsequently with each feed addition. When 6% NaCl was fed for 7 days feed intake was quickly suppressed; this caused a rapid increase in water intake. Water intake returned to normal levels before the end of the second week. Daily feed intake was significantly reduced by a continuous feeding of 4% or more NaCl. A 1-week exposure to the 6% treatment suppressed feed intake quickly but intake recovered within one week. In both experiments, only the continuous 6% NaCl feeding regime of Experiment 1 resulted in a significant loss of body weight or a significant reduction of overall egg weight averages. Mortality was not a factor in either experiment. These data indicate that at least 2% NaCl in feed was required before any significant effects were noted, and that laying hens recovered from a 1-week exposure to 6% NaCl in feed within the following week.

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PubMed1986

Utilization of sodium from sodium bicarbonate by broiler chicks.

Two experiments were performed with broiler chicks housed in battery brooders to ascertain their response to low levels of dietary sodium, supplied by either sodium chloride or sodium bicarbonate, and to compare the utilization of sodium from the materials. In each experiment, three replicate pens containing seven female day-old chicks were offered each treatment for a 21-day feeding period. Sodium chloride levels of 0, .05, .10, .15, or .20% were a portion of the dietary treatments. Additional groups received the same basal supplemented with .072, .144, or .216% sodium bicarbonate in the first experiment and .072 or .144% during the second, in order to provide sodium levels comparable to those resulting from .05, .10, or .15% sodium chloride. Group body weights, water consumption, feed consumption, and manure moisture served as evaluation criteria. As the level of sodium chloride was increased, body weights, feed and water intake, and manure moisture also increased. In neither experiment were there significant differences between the body weights of birds receiving sodium bicarbonate and those resulting from feeding comparable levels of sodium from sodium chloride. Average daily feed and sodium intake also did not differ statistically between groups receiving comparable sodium from either source. Water intake tended to be somewhat higher for sodium bicarbonate treatments and was significantly so for the .144% sodium bicarbonate treatment of the second experiment. Manure moisture was somewhat variable and did not differ statistically between sources at the same sodium level. It is concluded that the sodium from sodium bicarbonate was utilized in a manner comparable to that from sodium chloride.

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