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Nutrient Requirements of Poultry: Ninth Revised Edition, 1994
Nutrient and Estimated Requirement
Age Period (Days)
Response Criteria
Breed
References
0.38
0–28
Growth, toe ash
Hubbard
Nys et al., 1983
0.29
35–53
Growth, feed efficiency, tibia ash, bone length
Broiler strain
Tortuero and Diez Tardon, 1983
Potassium, %
0.25–0.30
13–41
Growth, mortality
Vantress × Plymouth Rock
Leach et al., 1959
Sodium, %
0.11–0.20
1–28
Growth, feed efficiency
New Hampshire × Columbian
McWard and Scott, 1961a
0.13
7–23
Growth, blood pH
White Rock
Hurwitz et al., 1973
0.07
49–63
Growth, blood pH
White Rock
Hurwitz et al., 1974
>0.23
1–21
Growth
Broiler strain
Ross, 1977
0.2–0.25
7–21
Growth
Cobb × Hubbard
Ross, 1979
0.35
1–21
Growth
Peterson × Hubbard
Edwards, 1984
Chlorine, %
0.315–0.340
2–28
Growth, mortality, blood chlorine
White Plymouth Rock
Leach and Nesheim, 1963
0.13
7–23
Growth, blood pH
White Rock
Hurwitz et al., 1973
0.07
49–63
Growth, blood pH
White Rock
Hurwitz et al., 1973
0.12
1–21
Growth, mortality
Ross
Gardiner and Dewar, 1976
0.42
1–21
Growth
Peterson × Hubbard
Edwards, 1984
Magnesium, mg/kg
350–400
7–24
Growth
Not specified
Almquist, 1947
100–300
1–21
Growth, mortality
White Plymouth Rock
Edwards et al., 1960
250
1–28
Growth, blood magnesium, mortality
Vantress × Hubbard
Gardner et al., 1960
200
1–14
Growth, mortality
New Hampshire × Columbian
McWard and Scott, 1961b
577
1–21
Growth, mortality, bone magnesium
White Plymouth Rock
Nugara and Edwards, 1963
=350
1–27
Growth, feed efficiency
New Hampshire × Columbian
Baker and Molitoris, 1975
Manganese, mg/kg
50
1–42
Growth, perosis
New Hampshire
Gallup and Norris, 1939a
14
8–22
Growth
New Hampshire × Columbian
Southern and Baker, 1983a
Zinc, mg/kg
35
12–26
Growth, feed efficiency
White Plymouth Rock
Morrison and Sarett, 1958
35
1–42
Growth, bone integrity
White Rock or Cornish × White Rock
O'Dell et al., 1958
30
1–28
Growth
White Meteor × White Rock
Roberson and Shaible, 1958
47–57
1–14
Growth, tibia ash
White Rock
Edwards et al., 1959
>52
1–28
Growth leg deformity
New Hampshire × Connecticut
Lease et al., 1960
>40 mg
1–28
Growth, hock enlargement
White Plymouth Rock
Zeigler et al., 1961
14
8–22
Growth
New Hampshire × Columbian
Southern and Baker, 1983b
18
1–21
Growth
Broiler strain
Dewar and Downie, 1984
>45
8–22
Tibia zinc
New Hampshire × Columbian
Wedekind et al., 1990
Iron, mg/kg
56
7–21
Growth, blood hemoglobin, liver iron
Not specified
Waddel and Sell, 1964
75–80
1–28
Growth, blood hemoglobin
New Hampshire and Plymouth Rock
Davis et al., 1968
80
1–21
Growth, blood hemoglobin, packed cell volume
Not specified
McNaughton and Day, 1979
40
8–22
Growth, blood hemoglobin, hematocrit
New Hampshire × Columbian
Southern and Baker, 1982
Copper, mg/kg
8
1–21
Growth, blood hemoglobin, packed cell volume
Not specified
McNaughton and Day, 1979
Iodine, mg/kg
0.3–0.4
28–56
Growth, thyroid histology
Barred Plymouth Rock
Creek et al., 1957
Selenium, mg/kg
>0.02 mg
1–24
Mortality, exudative diathesis
Plymouth Rock × Vantress
Thompson and Scott, 1969
0.1 mg
1–31
Pancreatic degeneration and fibrosis
White Plymouth Rock × Vantress
Gries and Scott, 1972c
>0.1 mg
1–63
Growth, glutathione peroxidase activity
Hubbard
Binnerts and El Boushy, 1985
0.14–0.17
1–21
Growth, plasma thyroid hormones
Hubbard and Arbor Acre
Jensen et al., 1986
Vitamin A, IU/kg
2,200
Varied
Growth
Various
Almquist, 1953
1,320
1–28
Growth, feed efficiency
Columbian Rock
Olsen et al., 1959
=1,100
7–63
Growth
Not specified
Marusich and Bauernfeind, 1963
900
1–56
Growth, incidence of coccidiosis
Broiler strain
Ogunmodede, 1981
Vitamin D3 , IU/kg
200–396
1–28
Growth
Not specified
Waldroup et al., 1963a
198
1–28
Growth, tibia ash
Not specified
Waldroup et al., 1965
200
1–54
Growth, tibia ash
Not specified
Biely and March, 1967
=200
1–14
Growth, bone mineralization
Not specified
McAuliffe et al., 1976