Why this chicken feed makes better eggs
Effects of replacing Na selenite in laying hen feed with selenized glucose on production performance, egg quality, egg selenium content, microbial population, immunological response, antioxidant enzymes, and fatty acid composition
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Scientists tested a new kind of selenium in chicken food to see if it makes eggs healthier and more nutritious.
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Scientists tested a new kind of selenium in chicken food to see if it makes eggs healthier and more nutritious.
Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses
Max 100Randomized Controlled Trials
Max 90Cohort Studies
Max 72Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional Studies
Max 44Case Reports & Case Series
Max 30Expert Opinion & Narrative Reviews
Max 515 / 90
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Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or control groups, minimizing bias. Considered the gold standard for testing whether an intervention causes an effect.
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Mohammadsadeghi F, Afsharmanesh M, Salarmoini M, Bami MK
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When laying hens are fed selenized glucose instead of sodium selenite at 0.3 mg/kg, their eggs are produced in higher numbers and have improved physical qualities, including firmer albumen, higher Haugh units, and darker yolks.
When laying hens are fed 0.6 mg/kg of selenized glucose, their egg yolks contain more selenium and less malondialdehyde than when fed sodium selenite.
Feeding laying hens 0.6 mg/kg of selenium increases glutathione peroxidase activity in their blood and raises their antibody response to sheep red blood cells, which reflects higher antioxidant capacity and stronger humoral immunity.
When laying hens are fed selenized glucose at 0.6 mg per kilogram of body weight, their egg whites contain more selenium and their blood shows higher glutathione peroxidase activity compared to when they are fed sodium selenite.