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Super dosing copper (Cu) has long been used as an alternative to antibiotic growth-promoters in broiler chickens’ diet to improve gut health. This study was designed to compare nutritional and growth-promoting levels of Cu hydroxychloride (CH) with CuSO 4  on gut health bio-markers and liver mineral profile of broiler chickens. Ross 308 chicks ( n  = 864) were randomly assigned to eight treatments, as basal diet containing no supplemental Cu; the basal diet with 15 or 200 mg/kg Cu as CuSO 4 ; or 15, 50, 100, 150 or 200 mg/kg Cu from CH. The highest liver Cu content was observed in birds fed the diets with 200 mg/kg CuSO 4  ( P  &lt; 0.01). Serum FITC-d concentration as the leaky gut marker, and liver malondialdehyde concentration were not affected. Copper level or source had no effect on cecal short chain fatty acid and the mRNA expression of five jejunal genes involved in gut integrity. Negative linear responses of Cu were observed on  Lactobacillus  ( P  = 0.032),  Bacteroides  ( P  = 0.033), and  Enterobacteriaceae  ( P  = 0.028) counts. The jejunal villus height increased in birds fed CH at 200 and 100 mg/kg ( P  &lt; 0.05). Increasing Cu levels, linearly and quadratically ( P  &lt; 0.001), increased Cu excretion.

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Sources and levels of copper affect liver copper profile, intestinal morphology and cecal microbiota population of broiler chickens fed wheat-soybean meal diets