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An assessment of the impacts of litter treatments on the litter quality and broiler performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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  • Taiani dos Santos de Toledo
  • Aline Arassiana Piccini Roll
  • Fernando Rutz
  • Henrique Müller Dallmann
  • Marcos Antonio Dai Prá
  • Fábio Pereira Leivas Leite
  • Victor Fernando Büttow Roll

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Objective: The choice of the most suitable litter treatment should be based on scientific evidence. This systematic review assessed the effectiveness of litter treatments on ammonia concentration, pH, moisture and pathogenic microbiota of the litter and their effects on body weight, feed intake, feed conversion and mortality of broilers. Methods: The systematic literature search was conducted using PubMed (Medline), Google Scholar, ScienceDirect and Scielo databases to retrieve articles published from January 1998 to august 2019. Means, standard deviations and sample sizes were extracted from each study. The response variables were analyzed using the mean difference (MD) or standardized mean difference (SMD), (litter treatment minus control group). All variables were analyzed using random effects meta-analyses. Results: Subgroup meta-analysis revealed that acidifiers reduce pH (P

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  • Taiani dos Santos de Toledo & Aline Arassiana Piccini Roll & Fernando Rutz & Henrique Müller Dallmann & Marcos Antonio Dai Prá & Fábio Pereira Leivas Leite & Victor Fernando Büttow Roll, 2020. "An assessment of the impacts of litter treatments on the litter quality and broiler performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(5), pages 1-26, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0232853
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232853
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    1. Kilian Fenske & Andreas Lemme & Elmar Rother & Heiner Westendarp, 2022. "Scaling Up the Effects of Low Nitrogen in Commercial Broiler Farms," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-20, December.
    2. Krzysztof Damaziak & Łukasz Gontar & Monika Łukasiewicz-Mierzejewska & Maksymilian Kochański & Julia Riedel & Wojciech Wójcik & Dariusz Gozdowski & Jan Niemiec, 2024. "Enhancing Broiler Welfare and Foot Pad Quality through the Use of Medicinal Plant-Based Pellets as Bedding Material," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-16, July.

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