peels aqueous and cyclodextrin extracts on broiler chicks’ performance and welfare status, as well as on the meat chemical composition and oxidative stability. A total of 120 one-day-old male Ross-308 chicks were randomly allocated to three treatments with four replicate pens (10 chicks per pen...
As a result of the long-term selection for critically low temperatures, the RS phenotypes were characterized by exceptional cold tolerance of neonatal chicks; their snowy-white down at day-old presumably caused by a recessive mutant gene, sw, for snow-white down [14,15]; and elevated ...