An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of corn soy-bean meal diets with added sodium gluconate and
phytase on performance and bone characteristics of broiler chicks.
A total of 350 eight-day-old Arbor Acre male chicks were used with a 2×3 plus 1 factorial arrangement.
A positive control diet, adequate in non-phytate-phosphorus and calcium
without sodium gluconate and phytase, was used. Chickens were randomly allocated to seventreatmentswitheachtreatmenthaving
five replicates. The experiment lasted from 8 to 42 d posthatching.
The outcomes of the study indicated that the low-non-phytate-
phosphorus diet caused a negative effect (P