Data/hora: 13/06/2024 01:31:28

Provedor de dados: | 96
País: | Brazil
Título: | Effects of arginine and phytogenic additive supplementation on performance and health of brown-egg layers
Autores: | Fascina,Vitor Barbosa; Pasquali,Guilherme Aguiar Mateus; Berto,Daniella Aparecida; Silva,Amanda da Lapa; Garcia,Edivaldo Antônio; Pezzato,Antonio Celso; Gonzales,Elisabeth; Sartori,José Roberto.
Data: | 2017-06-01
Ano: | 2017
Palavras-chave: | Aminoacids; Arg; Laying hens; Plant extract.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT This study was performed to evaluate the effects of the association of different digestible arginine and phytogenic additive dietary levels on performance and health status of brown-egg layers. In this study, a total of 504 33-week-old Hisex Brown layers were distributed into a completely randomized experimental design to a 4 × 3 factorial arrangement (dietary digestible arginine levels: 880, 968, 1056, or 1144 mg/kg of feed × phytogenic additive levels: 0, 100, and 200 mg/kg of feed) with six replicate cages of seven birds per cage. The phytogenic additive was composed of extracts of Baccharis dracunculifolia (40%), Astragalus membranaceus lipopolysaccharides (20%), cinnamon, and grape seed (20%). Feed intake was reduced when diets containing 1056 mg of arginine were supplemented with 100 or 200 mg phytogenic additive per kg. Feed conversion ratio was improved when diets were supplemented with 100 mg of phytogenic additive or with 1056 mg of arginine per kg of feed. Egg mass was increased when diets were supplemented with 1056 mg arginine per kg of feed. Arginine supplementation quadratically increased albumen percentage and reduced yolk percentage. Higher arginine and phytogenic additive levels reduced heterophyl:lymphocyte ratio and blood uric acid, total cholesterol, very-low density lipoprotein, and triglyceride levels. Dietary supplementation of 100 mg of phytogenic additive associated with high arginine levels increased nitric oxide production by peritoneal macrophages and 1056 mg of arginine increased antibodies titers against Newcastle disease virus. Blood and intestinal malonaldehyde levels were reduced when 200 mg of the phytogenic additive was added. Dietary supplementation of 968 mg of arginine or 100 mg of a phytogenic additive (40% Baccharis dracunculifolia, 20% Astragalus membranaceus, 20% cinnamon, and 20% grape seed extracts) per kilogram of diet improves the feed conversion ratio and associated inclusion of 1144 mg of arginine and 100 mg of phytogenic additive per kilogram of diet improves immune responses and health status of brown-egg layers.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982017000600502
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
Relação: | 10.1590/s1806-92902017000600005
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia  v.46 n.6 2017
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess