Aves de quatro linhagens de galinhas para corte foram criadas no sistema semi-intensivo, em 16 boxes, sendo 4 boxes por linhagens, com 4,5 m² de área interna (abrigo) e 35 m² de área de pastejo, com o objetivo de analisar a adaptação... more
Aves de quatro linhagens de galinhas para corte foram criadas no sistema semi-intensivo, em 16 boxes, sendo 4 boxes por linhagens, com 4,5 m² de área interna (abrigo) e 35 m² de área de pastejo, com o objetivo de analisar a adaptação dessas linhagens a esse sistema de criação, através de parâmetros ambientais e comportamentais. O período experimental desenvolveu-se entre 35 e 75 dias de idade, durante o qual foram coletados dados relativos à quantidade de aves presentes no pasto, temperatura e umidade relativa nos boxes e no pasto e porcentagem de sombra no pasto. Os parâmetros ambientais monitorados influenciaram o comportamento das aves. A análise bioclimática e a observação do comportamento permitiram diferenciar as linhagens estudadas no que diz respeito à adaptação das linhagens ao sistema semi-intensivo de criação. As aves das linhagens avaliadas mostraram-se adaptadas ao sistema semi-intensivo por demonstrar o comportamento esperado para esse sistema de criação.
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Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of a blend of organic acids (OAs) in diets with or without antibiotic growth promoter (AGP) in chickens challenged with Clostridium perfringens. Day-old male broiler chicks were... more
Abstract This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of a blend of organic acids (OAs) in diets with or without antibiotic growth promoter (AGP) in chickens challenged with Clostridium perfringens. Day-old male broiler chicks were used in a trial with 4 treatments and 6 replicates of 50 birds per pen, for 43 days, in a completely randomized design. The treatments in a 2×2 factorial arrangement consisted of the presence or absence of enramycin (AGP) and of a blend of OA in the feed. All birds were inoculated at 7 days of age with an anticoccidial vaccine in the drinking water; on days 14, 15, and 16, they were inoculated with C. perfringens in the feed. OA improved weight gain, body weight, and feed intake in the periods 1–7 days and 1–21 days in chicks without antibiotic supplementation. The AGP had the main effect of increasing weight gain and body weight at 35 d; the OA increased weight gain, body weight, and feed intake at 43 days of age. The birds supplemented with OA without AGP had a higher number of CD3+ cells in the ileum mucosa and lower crypt depth than birds supplemented with both OA and antibiotic at 7 days. At 21 days of age, birds fed OA without AGP had higher villus height and a larger villus/crypt ratio; however, there were no differences in the CD3+ cells in the ileal mucosa. The use of OA was beneficial for weight gain and AGP for feed conversion, and the combination of OA and AGP brings complementary advantages in production.
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RESUMO - Objetivou-se, com este estudo, determinar o valor de energia metabolizável aparente corrigida (EMAn) de ingredientes protéicos alternativos, para frangos de corte na fase pré-inicial, e avaliar os efeitos da utilização desses... more
RESUMO - Objetivou-se, com este estudo, determinar o valor de energia metabolizável aparente corrigida (EMAn) de ingredientes protéicos alternativos, para frangos de corte na fase pré-inicial, e avaliar os efeitos da utilização desses ingredientes na primeira semana de ...
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Betaine is donor of methyl groups and can partially replace methionine in diets for this purpose. The objective of this study was to evaluate three sources of betaine in partial substitution of methionine supplement in broiler diets. The... more
Betaine is donor of methyl groups and can partially replace methionine in diets for this purpose. The objective of this study was to evaluate three sources of betaine in partial substitution of methionine supplement in broiler diets. The Cobb-500 broiler chickens were allocated in a completely randomized experimental design with 5 treatments and 7 replicates of 49 birds each. The positive control treatment consisted of standard level of digestible methionine, the negative control was the digestible methionine reduced by 17% and the other three treatments consisted of the negative control diet supplemented with natural betaine (95%) or hydrochloride betaine (72%), HCl 1 and HCl 2 that had the same composition, and were obtained from two different manufacturers. The performance was evaluated from 7 to 21 days, 7 to 35 days and 7 to 43 days. At 43 days, the carcass and carcass parts (breast, thigh+drumstick, liver and abdominal fat) were determined and an economic analysis of each diet...
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Este estudo foi desenvolvido com a finalidade monitorar a qualidade da farinha de carne e ossos (FCO), durante o armazenamento prolongado (10 semanas), e avaliar os efeitos da adição do BHT (500mg/kg) a esta farinha. Um lote fresco de FCO... more
Este estudo foi desenvolvido com a finalidade monitorar a qualidade da farinha de carne e ossos (FCO), durante o armazenamento prolongado (10 semanas), e avaliar os efeitos da adição do BHT (500mg/kg) a esta farinha. Um lote fresco de FCO (41,12% PB e 9,14% EE) foi dividido em seis partes iguais, sendo uma não tratada (CONTROLE) e as demais tratadas com BHT em diferentes tempos de armazenamento (nos dias 0, 7, 14, 21 e 28: BHT/0, BHT/7, BHT/14, BHT/21 e BHT/28, respectivamente). As FCO foram armazenadas em ambiente diariamente monitorado e sua qualidade foi avaliada por amostragens semanais, com determinação do índice de peróxidos, cujo nível máximo obtido foi de aproximadamente 80meq/kg (CONTROLE). A partir da 4ª semana de armazenamento, foi conduzido um experimento com frangos de corte alimentados por 42 dias com rações à base de milho e farelo de soja, contendo cerca de 4% das FCO armazenadas. Foram utilizados 1.440 pintos de um dia, machos, distribuídos num delineamento em bloco...
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O trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de determinar os valores nutricionais de milhos de quatro qualidades, obtidos por meio de estratificação em mesa densimétrica, para frangos de corte em diferentes idades. Os milhos foram designados... more
O trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de determinar os valores nutricionais de milhos de quatro qualidades, obtidos por meio de estratificação em mesa densimétrica, para frangos de corte em diferentes idades. Os milhos foram designados como: MDA - milho de densidade alta; MDI - milho de densidade intermediária; MDB - milho de densidade baixa; e MDO milho de densidade original, composto de 25% de MDA, 50% de MDI e 25% de MDB. Três ensaios biológicos foram conduzidos utilizando-se o método tradicional de coleta total de excretas para determinação da energia metabolizável aparente corrigida (EMAn). O primeiro ensaio metabólico foi conduzido com pintos Cobb de 14 a 17 dias, o segundo, com pintos de 25 a 28 dias e o terceiro de 38 a 41 dias de idade. Foram realizadas análises químicas para determinação do perfil nutricional, classificação de grãos segundo a densidade e comparação por meio das estimativas de equações de predição do valor energético. Os valores da EMAn dos milhos de dife...
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Two experiments were carried out to determine which factor influences weight at hatch of broiler chicks: breeder age or incubated egg weight. In Experiment 1, 2340 eggs produced by 29- and 55-week-old Ross® broiler breeders were... more
Two experiments were carried out to determine which factor influences weight at hatch of broiler chicks: breeder age or incubated egg weight. In Experiment 1, 2340 eggs produced by 29- and 55-week-old Ross® broiler breeders were incubated. The eggs selected for incubation weighed one standard deviation below and above average egg weight. In Experiment 2, 2160 eggs weighing 62 g produced by breeders of both ages were incubated. In both experiments, 50 additional eggs within the weight interval determined for each breeder age were weighed, broken, and their components were separated and weighed. At hatch, hatchlings were sexed and weighed, determining the average initial weight of the progeny of each breeder age. Data were analyzed using the Analyst program of SAS® software package. In Experiment 1, the weight difference between eggs produced by young and mature breeders was 10.92 g, and the component that mostly influenced this difference was the yolk (7.51 g heavier in mature breede...
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This study aimed to determine whether broiler chickens display a preference for Tenebrio molitor larvae (TM) meal by evaluating ingredient acceptability and birds’ performance. Sixty 14-day-old male chickens were assigned into two... more
This study aimed to determine whether broiler chickens display a preference for Tenebrio molitor larvae (TM) meal by evaluating ingredient acceptability and birds’ performance. Sixty 14-day-old male chickens were assigned into two treatment groups (5 birds/pen, n = 6) in a cafeteria-type study: the control (C) group, and the TM group. Each pen was equipped with one bell drinker and four through feeders allocated side by side; all feeders of the C group contained a complete standard diet whereas each feeder of the TM group contained one of the following ingredients: ground corn, extruded semi-whole soybean, vitamin-mineral supplement mixture, and TM meal. Feed intake was recorded daily and growth was monitored periodically up to day 32. Chickens which had access to individual feed components showed a delay to display preference for TM, but consumed, overall, up to 50% of the total intake as TM meal. Feed intake and growth performance were lower in all periods for TM group (p < 0.0...
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Imbalance in nutrients can affect digestibility of amino acids by altering gene expression of amino acid transporters. We investigated digestibility and molecular transporters of essential amino acids in chickens fed a... more
Imbalance in nutrients can affect digestibility of amino acids by altering gene expression of amino acid transporters. We investigated digestibility and molecular transporters of essential amino acids in chickens fed a methionine-deficient diet. A total of 40 chicks (23 D old) were randomly assigned to either a control (0.49% methionine) or a deficient (0.28%) diet until 41 D when they were sampled for Pectoralis (P.) major, kidney, ileum, and hypothalamus for mRNA expression analysis. The ileal content was collected for apparent ileal digestibility (AID) analysis. Birds fed the deficient diet had reduced growth and worse feed efficiency compared to control. The AID of methionine was similar between both groups. The AID of other essential amino acids was higher in the deficient group than control. mRNA expression of b0,+AT and LAT4 were upregulated in the ileum and kidney but LAT1 was downregulated only in kidney of the deficient group compared to control. In the P. major, SNAT1, SN...
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Choline is an essential nutrient in poultry diets because it performs various important metabolic functions. The objective of this study was to re-evaluate the choline requirements of male broiler chickens from 1 to 21 days of age at two... more
Choline is an essential nutrient in poultry diets because it performs various important metabolic functions. The objective of this study was to re-evaluate the choline requirements of male broiler chickens from 1 to 21 days of age at two levels of methionine. Two assays using 2,160 Cobbchickens (1,080 in each assay) were conducted. The study design was completely randomized and consisted of six treatments and six replicates, with 30 animals per experimental unit. The semipurified basal diet was formulated with corn, soya bean meal, soya protein concentrate, starch and sugar, providing 390 mg/kg choline and 0.593% digestible methionine (requirement level) in Assay 1 and a reduction of about one-quarter in the requirement level of digestible methionine (0.440%) in Assay 2. Choline chloride (62.5%) was added by a supplementation technique to both basal diets to compose crescent levels of choline supplementation (715, 1,040, 1,365, 1,690 and 2,015 mg/kg). The weight gain responses were ...
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Avaliou-se o efeito da suplementação da vitamina C (75 e 150 mg/kg) na alimentação de frangos de corte machos sob condições de estresse de calor e superlotação. As aves foram criadas sobre "cama" de cavaco de madeira nas... more
Avaliou-se o efeito da suplementação da vitamina C (75 e 150 mg/kg) na alimentação de frangos de corte machos sob condições de estresse de calor e superlotação. As aves foram criadas sobre "cama" de cavaco de madeira nas lotações de 10 e 14 aves/m². O delineamento experimental foi o inteiramente casualizado em esquema fatorial (3 níveis de vitamina C na ração e 2 lotações), com 5 repetições. Os resultados indicaram que o aumento da lotação de criação prejudicou (P<0,05) o ganho de peso das aves no período final da criação. A conversão alimentar dos 35 aos 48 dias de idade foi melhor (P <0,01) nas aves que receberam suplementação de 75 mg/kg em comparação com o controle. A suplementação de 150 mg/kg deu média de conversão alimentar melhor do que a média da testemunha, porem, as diferenças não foram significativas. A suplementação de vitamina C apresentou efeito benéfico no desempenho de frangos de corte. O benefício se mostrou particularmente importante na melhoria da...
An experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of growth promoters on the performance and body temperature of broiler chickens 1 to 42 days of age. The treatments were a basal diet unsupplemented (Control), or supplemented of 200... more
An experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of growth promoters on the performance and body temperature of broiler chickens 1 to 42 days of age. The treatments were a basal diet unsupplemented (Control), or supplemented of 200 mg Cu/kg as copper sulfate pentahydrate (Sulfate), 75 mg Cu/kg as anhydrous copper citrate (Citrate), 20 mg/kg of virginiamycin (VM), or the combination Citrate + VM. The experiment in floor pens with reutilized litter was in randomized blocks and six replicates of 40 birds. There were no treatment effects in the initial period. Treatments did not affect feed intake and weight gain in the final period; VM resulted improved feed conversion compared to Control. In the overall period, liveweight, weight gain, feed intake and feed conversion were not affected by treatments. In the final and overall periods the viability of Sulfate birds was lower than Citrate, VM and Citrate + VM. No synergistic effect was found when VM + Citrate was fed. Rectal temperat...