Author
DAVIS, JAMES - GA POULTRY DIAGNOSTIC LAB | |
McMurtry, John | |
VASILATOS-YOUNKEN, REGINA - PENN STATE UNIVERSITY |
Submitted to: Southern Poultry Science Society Meeting Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 8/8/1996 Publication Date: N/A Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: One Hundred 1-day-old broiler chicks were orally inoculated with an embryo homogenate previously shown to induce hypoglycemia-spiking mortality syndrome (SMS). Fifty were exposed to a controlled lighting program (G.1), and fifty to continuous lighting (G.2). Fifty more chicks on continuous lighting served as uninoculated controls (G.3). G.1 had higher mean plasma glucose levels than G.2 or G.3. (p < 0.0001). In addition, the clinical signs/hypoglycemia of SMS were nonexistent in G.1 as compared to a 39% incidence in G.2. Mean body weight depression in G.1 was 17% vs. 35% in G.2 when compared with G.3. It is postulated that G.2 chicks were more stressed and deficient in melatonin, and therefore were more susceptible to the viral challenge than were G.1 chicks. Plasma IGF-1, IGF-2, insulin, and GH varied extremely between groups, and will be discussed. |