Multi-Carbohydrase Addition Into a Corn-Soybean Meal Diet Containing Wheat and Wheat By Products to Improve Growth Performance and Nutrient Digestibility of Broiler Chickens

Title
Multi-Carbohydrase Addition Into a Corn-Soybean Meal Diet Containing Wheat and Wheat By Products to Improve Growth Performance and Nutrient Digestibility of Broiler Chickens
Publication Date
2019-06-01
Author(s)
Wickramasuriya, Samiru S
Kim, Eunjoo
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8884-6593
Email: ekim24@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ekim24
Shin, Taeg Kyun
Cho, Hyun Min
Kim, Beomgyu
Patterson, Rob
Yi, Young-Joo
Park, Sungkwon
Balasubramanian, Balamuralikrishnan
Heo, Jung Min
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
United State of America
DOI
10.3382/japr/pfz002
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/60198
Abstract

Feed enzymes are used in poultry diets to enhance nutrient availability and thereby improve growth performances of the birds. The objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of dietary Multi-Carbohydrase (MC) supplementation on growth performance, blood metabolites, visceral organ weights, gut morphology, and nutrient digestibility in broiler chickens. A total of 168 one-day-old broiler chicks (47.5 ± 0.20 g) were randomly allocated into one of four dietary treatments in a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement with 6 replications per treatment. Dietary treatments were as follows: (1) positive control (PC; energy sufficient, 3,200 ME, kcal/kg); (2) negative control (NC; energy deficient, 3,100 ME, kcal/kg); (3) PC with MC (MC; SuperzymeCSTM; 0.05%); (4) NC with MC. Greater ADG (P = 0.022) was observed with the birds fed MC for the entire period (1–35 d) compared to birds fed a diet without MC. Birds fed the NC diet supplemented with MC showed improved FCR (P = 0.037) compared to birds fed the NC diet during the starter period (1–21 d). MC supplementation increased dry matter (P = 0.029), crude protein (P = 0.015), and energy digestibility (P = 0.015) of the birds compared to those fed a diet without MC on day 21. Moreover, birds fed a diet with MC had increased (P = 0.037) dry matter digestibility on day 35 compared to its counterpart, regardless of dietary energy level. Therefore, our study indicated that MC improved growth performance along with nutrient digestibility in broiler chickens fed corn soybean-meal-based diets containing wheat and wheat by-products from hatch to 35 d of age, regardless of dietary energy level.

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Citation
Journal of Applied Poultry Research, 28(2), p. 399-409
ISSN
1537-0437
1056-6171
Start page
399
End page
409
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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