The effect of diet acidified with hydrochloric and butyric acids on performance of female broiler chickens

Salari, Ali Akbar; Hassanabadi, Ahmad; Nassiri Moghaddam, Hassan; Kalidari, Gholamali

doi:10.22059/jap.2016.55502

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ 1M.Sc. Student, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

² Professor, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

³ 3Associate Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jap.2016.55502

Abstract

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.

Keywords

20.1001.1.20096776.1395.18.2.11.2

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The effect of diet acidified with hydrochloric and butyric acids on performance of female broiler chickens

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The effect of diet acidified with hydrochloric and butyric acids on performance of female broiler chickens

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Volume 18, Issue 2June 2016Pages 323-334

Volume 18, Issue 2
June 2016
Pages 323-334