Arsanilic acid as a growth promoter for chicken broilers when administered via either the feed or drinking water

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<jats:p> Two thousand four hundred male broiler chicks were used in three experiments to evaluate the biological and economic effects of using arsanilic acid as a growth promoter. In two experiments four treatments were (A) control diets (CD); (B) CD plus 99 mg kg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> arsanilic acid; (C) CD plus drinking water containing arsanilic acid calculated to achieve equivalent exposure to treatment B; and (D) same as treatment C except arsanilic acid concentration reduced by 50%. A third experiment evaluated the dietary addition of arsanilic acid at 0, 33, 66 and 99 mg kg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup>. Arsanilic acid supplementation had no significant (P > 0.05) effect on mortality, feed conversion, final live body weights or monetary returns at slaughter age (42 d). Analysis of breast, thigh and liver tissues using method with a sensitivity of 0.02 mg kg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> showed a significant increase in liver arsenic residues when supplemented diets were fed to slaughter age. Withdrawal of arsanilic acid from diets 7 d prior to slaughter returned the arsenic residues to normal background (control) levels. It is concluded that the use of arsanilic acid at dietary concentrations up to 99 mg kg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> (the maximum permissible in Canada) was ineffective in improving either the biological or economic performance of broiler chickens. Key words: Arsanilic acid, growth promoter, broiler chickens </jats:p>

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