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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2187</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>BLOOD CHEMISTRY AND PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF MEAT-TYPE MALE&#13;
CHICKENS IN RESPONSE TO EXOGENOUS TESTOSTERONE ENANTHATE&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>labi</surname><given-names>A</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>O.M</surname><given-names/></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Oguntunji</surname><given-names/></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A.O</surname><given-names/></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>76</fpage><lpage>82</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Performance and blood serum parameters of meat type cockerels on five different levels of Testosterone&#13;
Enanthate were investigated. Parameters measured included Total Feed Intake(TFI),Initial Body Weight(IBW),Final Body Weight(FBW).Total Body Weight Gain(TBWG),Feed Conversion Ratio(FCR),Efficiency of Feed Utilization(EFU),Feed Cost per unit body weight gain(US$/kg),Total Protein(TP), Albumin(ALB), Globulin(GLB), Uric acid, Glucose, Cholesterol, Serum calcium and enzyme activities. The results revealed that the dosage of the testosterone enanthate had significant (p__ampersandsignlt;0.05) effect on the performance characteristics investigated. Birds on 0.3mg/kg body weight gave the best results with respect to FBW, FCR, EFU and cost effectiveness. Meanwhile, the serum metabolites were not significantly (p__ampersandsigngt;0.05) affected by the dosage of the exogenous hormone. Exogenous testosterone enanthate can be used to enhance the growth of meat type cockerels economically without adverse effect on the birds.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Cockerels</kwd><kwd> Performance characteristics</kwd><kwd> Serum metabolites</kwd><kwd> Testosterone Enanthate</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
