Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Usually, when people hear how rapidly broiler chickens grow or how many eggs a layer produces, it is a general belief that something not legal, a "magic bullet", is being used.The major assumption is that some kind of exogenous hormones, besides the normal circulating endogenous substances, would be used.Although some efforts have been made to address this issue, as Penz (2012) in Brazil and Anderson & Gernat (2004) in the USA, in order to strengthen the discussion, we revisited the literature to review some studies, most realized in the eighties and nineties, which analyzed the technical possibilities of obtain advantages by the use of exogenous hormones.
Authors: G. N. Scheuermann, Alexandre Mendes Cunha, Louis‐Philippe Caron
Language: English
Subfield: Animal Science and Zoology
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2181966231