Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVII, Issue 2
Written by Carmen IONITA, Roxana Mariana IGNATESCU, Nicoleta Andreea MINCĂ, Lucian IONITA
In poultry farming, thanks to the development of technology, the broiler is a remarkable achievement in terms of genetics, nutrition and economic performance. The monitoring of the disease state is done from a clinical and paraclinical point of view only when the situation requires it. The determination of hematological parameters provides valuable information for the assessment of the health status of animals, but in current avian pathology these determinations are not widely used due to the lack of reference values for avian blood profiles, the very young economic age of broilers in conditions where feeding, watering, animal hygiene are regulated and monitored daily. In addition, the fact that erythrocytes in birds are nucleated and the hematology machines do not distinguish erythrocytes from leukocytes, counting them as nucleated cells giving errors in the counting, we, in practical field conditions, resorted to performing the leukocyte formula (easier to performed even in farms) and to the laboratory determination of some biochemical parameters to achieve a small difference between the 2 broiler hybrids during the growth period. From the experiment data we found that.
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