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Interrelationships between biotin, choline and other B-vitamins and the occurrence of fatty liver and kidney syndrome and sudden death syndrome in broiler chickens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

C. C. Whitehead  and
C. J. Randall
C. C. Whitehead
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Council's Poultry Research Centre, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9PS
C. J. Randall
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Veterinary Laboratory, Lasswade, Midlothian EH18 1HU
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1. Addition of supplemental choline to a biotin-deficient diet decreased the biotin status of chicks and increased mortality from fatty liver and kidney syndrome (FLKS).

2. Mortality was also increased by dietary supplementation with a mixture of other B-vitamins, excluding biotin, and was highest when the choline and B-vitamin supplements were combined.

3. The occurrence of sudden death syndrome (SDS) was unaffected by dietary biotin concentration.

4. A previously unreported condition was observed in which birds died showing post-mortem signs characteristic of both FLKS and SDS and whose occurrence was related to the biotin status of the chicks.

Type
Papers on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , July 1982 , pp. 177 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1982

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