seyyed mohammadreza salavati; Ahmad Hassanabadi; Mohsen Teimurty; Aliakbar Salari
Volume 23, Issue 2 , July 2021, , Pages 255-267
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The effect of heat processing of wheat grains and enzyme supplementation on its apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and digestibility of protein and dry matter as well as the effect of their use in the diet on the growth performance, jejunum morphology and microbial population of ileum were investigated. ...
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The effect of heat processing of wheat grains and enzyme supplementation on its apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and digestibility of protein and dry matter as well as the effect of their use in the diet on the growth performance, jejunum morphology and microbial population of ileum were investigated. For this purpose, 480 broiler chickens in a 4×2 factorial experiment with three levels of heat processing of wheat at 55, 70 and 85 °C for 2.5 minutes (with one treatment without thermal processing) and Rovabio enzyme (0 and 500 g/ton of diet) was used in a completely randomized design with eight treatments, six replicates of 10 birds each at the age of 25-42 days. Heat processing of wheat at 55 and 85 °C increased its AME compared to unprocessed treatment; So that the AME of processed wheat at 85 °C was 2.49% higher than unprocessed wheat (P<0.05). Enzyme supplementation significantly increased the AME of wheat (P < 0.05). Wheat processing at all three temperatures reduced the height of jejunum villi compared to the unprocessed group (P < 0.01). Also, processing of wheat at 70 and 85 °C increased the population of lactobacilli compared to treatment without processing (P = 0.05). The use of enzyme in the diet reduced the feed intake of the birds and the height of jejunal villi (P<0.05). Overall,, enzyme supplementation and heat processing of wheat improve its AME but have no remarkable effect on the growth performance of broiler chickens.
Heydar Zarghi; َAbolghasem Golian; Ahmad Hassanabadi; Farhad Khaligh
Volume 20, Issue 4 , February 2019, , Pages 577-587
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The present study was conducted to determine the zinc (Zn) requirement in broiler chickens fed wheat-soy based diet. Two hundred fifty day-old broiler chicks (Ross 308), were randomly assigned to a completely randomised design (CRD) experiment with 5 treatments, and 5 replicates of 10b each. The experimental ...
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The present study was conducted to determine the zinc (Zn) requirement in broiler chickens fed wheat-soy based diet. Two hundred fifty day-old broiler chicks (Ross 308), were randomly assigned to a completely randomised design (CRD) experiment with 5 treatments, and 5 replicates of 10b each. The experimental treatments included five dietary Zn levels (30, 70, 110, 150, and 190 mg/kg) provided by the addition of reagent grade “ZnSO4.7H2O”. The experiment lasted from 1-42d of age. Increasing dietary Zn level to 70mg/kg significantly increased 10, 24 and 42d live body weight (LBW), feed intake (FI) and weight gain (WG) during 1-10, 25-42 and 1-42d of age and feed efficiency (FE) during 1-10d of age. The linear broken-line (LBL), quadratic-broken line (QBL) and the quadratic polynomial (QP) regression models were used to estimate the Zn requirement. The Zn requirement for optimal final LBW and FI, WG, and FE during 1-42d of ages by LBL model were 68.77, 83.12, 66.99 and 62.75 mg/kg of diet, and by QBL model 70.00, 79.93, 69.63 and 58.01 mg/kg of diet, respectively. In conclusion, Zn requirement varied between 58-83 mg/kg, which is higher than NRC and is lower than strain recommendation in the broiler chickens fed wheat-based diet.
Ahmad Hassanabadi
Volume 19, Issue 3 , November 2017, , Pages 671-684
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Effect of different dietary levels of nucleotide supplementation on performance, carcass characteristics, immune system status, small intestine morphology and ileal microbial population of broiler chickens was evaluated using 308 one-day-old mixed-sex Ross 308 broilers in a completely randomized design ...
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Effect of different dietary levels of nucleotide supplementation on performance, carcass characteristics, immune system status, small intestine morphology and ileal microbial population of broiler chickens was evaluated using 308 one-day-old mixed-sex Ross 308 broilers in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 7 replicates of 11 chicks in each, up to 42 days of age. Experimental treatments included a corn-soybean meal basal diet (control), and the basal diet containing 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2 percent nucleotide supplementation. The results showed that feed intake, body weight gain and feed conversion ratio of the broilers were not significantly affected by experimental treatments. Results of humeral immune system response at 35 days of age showed that the blood serum IgM concentration in 0.2 percent nucleotide group was higher than 0.05 percent group(P< 0.05). Also, Serum IgG concentration in this age in 0.05 percent nucleotide group was higher than 0.2 percent group(P< 0.05). At 42 days of age, serum IgG concentration in 0.1 percent nucleotide treatment was lower than control group (P< 0.05). The cellular immune system response of chicks fed diet supplemented with 0.1 percent nucleotide at 48 hours after Phytohemagglutinin-P injection was higher than control treatment (P<0.05). On the basis of current experiment results, supplementation of broiler dietswith nucleotide improves cellular immune system response but has no significant effect on other parameters of broiler chickens.
Naser Khakshor; Heydar Zarghi; Ahmad Hassanabadi
Volume 19, Issue 3 , November 2017, , Pages 697-709
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This experiment was carried out to study the effect of vitamin premix (VP) reduce/withdraw of finisher wheat based diet on growth performance, carcass efficiency, tibia bone ash, and humoral immune response of broiler chickens. Three hundred and fifty, one day-old male broiler chicks (Ross 308) were ...
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This experiment was carried out to study the effect of vitamin premix (VP) reduce/withdraw of finisher wheat based diet on growth performance, carcass efficiency, tibia bone ash, and humoral immune response of broiler chickens. Three hundred and fifty, one day-old male broiler chicks (Ross 308) were used in a complete randomized design (CRD) experiment with 7 treatments of 5 replicates and 10 birds each. The dietary treatments were: T1 (control), fed the basal diet containing 2.5g VP/kg of diet; T2, T3 and T4, The reduce dietary VP levels to 1.25 g/kg of diet from 25, 31 and 37 day of ages respectively; T5, T6 and T7, The complete withdrawal dietary VP from 25, 31 and 37 day of ages respectively. The results showed; reduced dietary VP levels to 1.25g/kg of diet from 25d of age did not impair effects on growth performance. The complete withdrawal dietary VP from 25d significantly decreased growth performance (P<0.05). The reduced/ withdraw dietary VP levels from 25, 31 and 37 day of ages had not significant effects on carcass efficiency, tibia bone ash, and humoral immune response to SRBC injection. It is concluded that it is possible to reduce the vitamin supplements in finisher broiler wheat based diets.
ahmad ali sabetan shiraze; Ahmad Hassanabadi; mohamad javad agah; hasan nasiri moghadam
Volume 19, Issue 2 , August 2017, , Pages 371-387
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The effects of different dietary levels of olive leaf powder (OLP) as a natural antioxidant on growth performance, carcass traits, some blood parameters, small intestinal morphology and feed digestibility in broiler using a total of 300 one-day-old Cobb500 broilers were studied in a completely randomized ...
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The effects of different dietary levels of olive leaf powder (OLP) as a natural antioxidant on growth performance, carcass traits, some blood parameters, small intestinal morphology and feed digestibility in broiler using a total of 300 one-day-old Cobb500 broilers were studied in a completely randomized design with 5 treatments, 3 replicates and 20 chicks for each replicate, up to 42d. The experimental diets included: corn-soybean meal basal diet (negative control), basal diet supplemented with 250 mg/kg of alpha-Tocopheryl acetate (positive control) and three basal diets containing 2, 2.5 and 3 percent OLP. The results showed that during total experimental period (1-42d), weight gain was decreased (P<0.05) in OLP received groups in comparison with positive control. Feed intake during 1-42d period was decreased (P<0.05) in group which was treated by 3 percent OLP in comparison with positive control group. In starter period, feed conversion ratio was increased (P<0.05) in all groups treated by OLP in comparison with negative and positive controls. Dietary inclusion of different levels of OLP increased (P<0.05) length of villi, crypt depth and villus surface in comparison with the negative or positive controls. A significant decrease (P<0.05) was observed in serum concentrations of the triglycerides, cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins in OLP treated groups in comparison with negative or positive controls. Based on the results, dietary inclusion of OLP up to 2 percent in the broiler diets is recommendable, because it reduces blood lipids and also improves intestinal morphology.
Ali Akbar Salari; Ahmad Hassanabadi; Hassan Nassiri Moghaddam; Gholamali Kalidari
Volume 18, Issue 2 , June 2016, , Pages 323-334
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The aim of this experiment was to study the effects of hydrochloric and butyric acids addition to broiler diets on performance, carcass characteristics, intestinal microbial population and intestinal histology. Two hundred eighty Ross 308 one-day old female broiler chicks were assigned to 7 dietary treatments ...
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The aim of this experiment was to study the effects of hydrochloric and butyric acids addition to broiler diets on performance, carcass characteristics, intestinal microbial population and intestinal histology. Two hundred eighty Ross 308 one-day old female broiler chicks were assigned to 7 dietary treatments and 4 replicates of 10 chicks in a completely randomized design. Experimental treatments consisted of dietary addition of 2 levels of hydrochloric acid (1.5 and 3 percent), 2 levels of butyric acid (0.2 and 0.4 percent) and 2 levels of the acids mixture (1.5 + 0.4 and 3 + 0.2 percent) and a treatment with no acid supplementation as control group. Dietary hydrochloric and butyric acids during grower period decreased average body weight, significantly (P<0.05) in compare to control group. Supplemented acids, decreased feed intake and increased feed conversion ratio in the grower period in compare to control group, significantly (P<0.05). Acid treatments had no significant effect on carcass characteristics, microbial count of ileum and histology of the small intestine of broiler chickens in compare to control group. It could be concluded that using of hydrochloric and butyric acids in broiler diets have no positive effect on growth performance, carcass characteristics and morphology of the small intestine of broiler chickens.