Dietary Supplementation of 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol Improves Livability in Broiler Breeder Hens-Amelioration of Cardiac Pathogenesis and Hepatopathology
, Yu-Hui Chen 1, Lih-Shiuh Lai 2, Thau Kiong Chung 3, Rosemary L. Walzem 4, San-Yuan Huang 1,5,6,* and Shuen-Ei Chen 1,5,6,7,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
the manuscript investigates the effects of vit D admistered to hens in order to improve the health of the animals.
some improvements need before the manuscript could be considered for publication.
l 85: use weeks
l87 what is this BW?
l88 please report the humidity rate
l99: 4, 7 and 7 hens per group, I suppose. Why only 4 at the first time?
data on chemical-nutritional characteristics of the diet need as well as data on the feed intake.
table 1. data could be analysed by a chi-square test.
table 2: what is this correlation? It is not reported in the statistical analysis section
table 3: improve the data presentation: I did not understand if a statistical analysis has been made
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Reviewer 2 Report
see the attached copy in which I have several suggestion to improve the outcomes of this state of art article. I enjoyed reading it.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
dear Authors, thank you for modifying your manuscript
