About the Authors

Ahmed A. Saleh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Poultry Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt

Ali H. El-Far

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ali.elfar@damanhour.edu.eg (AE-F); mervat.abdellatif@vetmed.dmu.edu.eg (MA)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, El Beheira, Egypt

Mervat A. Abdel-Latif

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ali.elfar@damanhour.edu.eg (AE-F); mervat.abdellatif@vetmed.dmu.edu.eg (MA)

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Veterinary Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, El Beheira, Egypt

Mohamed A. Emam

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Veterinary Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, El Beheira, Egypt

Rania Ghanem

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Animal Health Research Institute, Mansoura Laboratory, Mansoura, Egypt

Hatem S. Abd El-Hamid

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Poultry Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Damanhour University, Damanhour, El Beheira, Egypt

Competing Interests

This study was only done in Al-Sabeel Al-Gadidah Company for poultry production, Tanta, Al-Gharbia, Egypt. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.