Response of brown hisex chicks to low levels of Jatropha curcas, Ricinus communis or their mixture.
Feeding Jatropha curcas seed at 0.5% of the basic diet for 2 w was not lethal to chicks. In chicks fed 0.5% Ricinus communis seed or a mixture of 0.5% J curcas + 0.5% R communis for 2 w, there was dullness, poor growth, locomotor disturbance and death. Pathological changes were correlated with alterations in clinical chemistry and hematology.
el Badwi
S M
SM
Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Khartoum, Sudan.
Mousa
H M
HM
Adam
S E
SE
Hapke
H J
HJ
D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D005506:Food Contamination; D006403:Hematologic Tests; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D014801:Vitamin A / Q000032:analysis
D008055:Lipids; D014801:Vitamin A