RESPONSE OF BROILER CHICKEN TO DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION OF ORGANIC ACIDS

By S. Adil, T. Banday, G. A. Bhat, M. Salahuddin, M. Raquib, S. Shanaz. 2011

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The aim of the study was to determine the effect of dietary supplementation of organic acids on the performance, gut health and carcass characteristics of broiler chicken. Results indicated that the birds fed diets supplemented with organic acids showed significantly (p 0.05) among all the treatment groups. Addition of organic acids in broiler diets increased the villus height in all the segments of small intestines but the differences were non-significant (p>0.05) in case of ileum. No effect (p>0.05) on carcass characteristics was observed among all treatments except for length and weight of small intestines which were significantly (p<0.05) increased in the groups fed supplemental organic acids.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology

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Citations in the corpus

• Effect of Partially Protected Sodium Butyrate on Performance, Digestive Organs, Intestinal Villi and E. coli Development in Broilers Chickens (2014, methodology): “Small chain fatty acids like acetic propionic and butyric stimulated intestinal epithelial cell proliferation by increasing intestinal levels and expressions of Glucagon Like Peptide 2 (GLP-2), ileal proglucagon mRNA, Glucose Transporter Type 2 (GLUT-2) and other proteins (Adil et al., 2011).”
• Sodium butyrate in chicken nutrition: the dynamics of performance, gut microbiota, gut morphology, and immunity (2016, background): “Butyric acid increases the villi length in small intestine (Chamba et al., 2014; Adil et al., 2011) and stimulates the pancreatic exocrine (Katoh and Tsuda, 1984; 1985) thus increasing the secretions of digestive enzymes such as amylase and lipase.”
• Recent advances in the role of organic acids in poultry nutrition (2016, methodology): “The above workers also conducted another trial, in which broilers were given basal diet supplemented with 2–3% each of butyric acid, fumaric acid and lactic acid (Adil et al. 2011a).”