What are the functions of water in the body of poultry?
A. In the first instance what we call meat is in fact muscle and it consists of at least 65% water , the rest, 35%, is high quality protein and of similar composition as the muscle fibres in our bodies. Water is the fluid in which substances are in solution inside the muscle cells and growth is simply the process by which the muscle cells multiply and enlarge themselves. All the reactions inside muscle cells for the growth processes can only take place in a watery medium. Insufficient water to fill new cells directly results in retarded growth. Secondly, the substances (building blocks) that are used for the formation of muscle cells are carried by the blood stream from the digestive tract and the liver to the muscle cells in the different parts of the body, e.g. the breast muscles, wing and leg muscle, abdominal muscles et etc. Blood consist mainly of water: in a 100 ml blood only 8 ml is solid material (protein of blood cells) the rest is water. In the third instance: Q. why does fee
