Effect of Dietary Edta on the Ability of Chicks to Tolerate Sodium Chloride in the Water

Abstract

B,roiler-chicks, allocated in a randomized found for the group on the salt water comblock design,.were fed four diets containing pqred with the"tapliter controls. The morethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA).aI i+rv i;. jte:fifr.;-;'?r-"ri.i'lig-rii""riiv 0' 0.1, 0.2 and o.4vo of the dier.ana arintiing 1F (_o;ol_niehei'ihan'ro, rhe group receiv_ water wirh a high salt conce-ntration (600d i"g d.ir" EDie-H'lji; diet ani ;;it;;i;;. ppm). A control grouo re€eived tap-w-ater and rfr'e _chicks oo trr" o.qE" nDrA,-dl"t'T;; the EDTA-free diEt. The addition .ir oooo ppm ;td;:n.:;.iiv.rr'<'bi.oii-r,ierr", -i,itrjiiv tilIi NaCl in the drinkine water had no effecibn cdntrol chicks on-tup-.iout.t and those chicks weight gain.or feed 6onversi