Influence of organic trace minerals on broiler carcass quality : feed science

During the last two decades a number of studies have been published on the effect of organic trace minerals related to improving carcass characteristics in poultry (15, 11, 6, 21, 12, 19, 23, 14, 7). As previously documented, many factors interact to improve or reduce poultry yields in processing plants (1, 2, 26). The major ones are controlled by improving management and operating procedures during pre-slaughter, sacrifice and processing phases.