Chidozie Egbu's meta-analysis quantitatively synthesizes published experimental evidence on dietary fennel supplementation in broiler chickens. The dataset covers effects on growth performance, intestinal morphology, gut microbiota, immune organ weights, and hepatic biomarkers. It was last updated on April 29, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between fennel supplementation and growth performance metrics.
- Compare effects on intestinal morphology across different experimental studies.
- Investigate correlations between supplementation levels and gut microbiota composition.
- Model the impact on immune organ weights and hepatic biomarkers.
Strengths
- Dataset is a structured meta-analysis, likely aggregating results from multiple published studies.
- Available under a CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating open reuse.
Limitations
- Dataset size is 45.0 KB, indicating a very limited scope.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- figshare
- Collection Method
- Meta-analysis synthesizing published experimental evidence.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-29 05:19:27; freshness should be verified.