Akbar Shiralinezhad; Mir Daryoush Shakouri; Seyedeh Azam Khatami
Volume 18, Issue 1 , April 2016, , Pages 75-83
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary soy isoflavones (ISFs) on growth performance, blood parameters and tibia Ca and P content of broiler chickens. A total of 240 as-hatched day-old Ross 308 chicks were used in a completely randomize design with four treatments (0 (control), ...
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This study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary soy isoflavones (ISFs) on growth performance, blood parameters and tibia Ca and P content of broiler chickens. A total of 240 as-hatched day-old Ross 308 chicks were used in a completely randomize design with four treatments (0 (control), 25, 50 and 100 mg/kg of ISF), three replicates and 20 birds per each replicate for a period of 42 days. Using ISF in the diet without any effect on feed intake improved the chicken’s weight gain and feed conversion ratio (P<0.05). Diet containing 50 and 100 mg ISF/kg had no effect on tibia ash content, but increased tibia Ca and P contents (P<0.05). pH value of gizzard and cecal digesta were decreased by adding ISF to diet (P<0.05). The sera concentrations of total cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL- and VLDL-cholesterol decreased in birds fed on diets containing ISF (P<0.05), whereas the concentration of HDL-cholesterol increased (P<0.05). Addition 50 and 100 mg/kg of ISF to diet increased the gross profit per chicken and cost of diet, respectively (P<0.05). According to the findings, supplementation of 50 mg ISF/kg of broiler diet is recommended.