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Journal of Nutrition Vol. 120 No. 11 November 1990, pp. 1360-1369
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Effects of Dietary Minerals on Acid-Base Balance and Eggshell Quality in Chickens1

Kavous Keshavarz and Richard E. Austic

Department of Poultry and Avian Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

Three experiments were conducted in hens to determine the effects of high levels of dietary phosphorus (P, 1–1.5%), chloride (Cl, 0.8%) or both on acid-base balance and eggshell quality and to consider whether any adverse effects on eggshell quality can be attributed to alteration of blood acid-base balance. Eggshell quality and values for a blood indicator of acid-base balance were reduced by high levels of dietary P or Cl in all of the experiments. Eggshell quality and values for the blood acid-base indicator were further reduced by high dietary levels of the combination of minerals. The adverse effects associated with high levels of the combination were greater than the sum of adverse effects associated with high levels of each mineral. The effects of P and Cl on plasma levels of these minerals were inconsistent and varied among experiments. The use of pair-fed controls revealed that the adverse effects of combined P and Cl on eggshell quality and acid-base balance were independent of their effects on feed and calcium intake. Calcium excretion was increased by consumption of the high P, high Cl diet. The information obtained from these experiments suggests that the adverse effects of high levels of dietary P and/or Cl on eggshell quality may be due, at least in part, to increased Ca excretion. This, in turn, may be mediated by acidemia resulting from the dietary manipulations, although the present data were insufficient to provide a direct link between acidemia and Ca excretion.

KEY WORDS: • eggshell quality • acid-base balance • calclum • phosphorus • chloride • chickens

1 Supported in part by Agway, Inc., Syracuse, NY.

Manuscript received 18 September 1989. Revision accepted 13 April 1990.






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