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Article: Acidified water may not affect turkey growth.
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- Feedstuffs
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- December 5, 2005
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ACIDIFICATION of drinking water has become very popular in the broiler industry as a tool for improving bird performance, but little has been done with water acidification on turkey performance, according to Jana Cornelison, Melony Wilson and Susan Watkins of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
In the Spring 2005 Avian Advice newsletter, Cornelison et al. reported the results of a trial conducted to determine how turkeys respond to different products used to adjust the drinking water pH.
They placed 960 turkey hen poults (day-old) in 48 floor pens to give 20 birds per pen and six replications per treatment. Each pen was equipped ...