Effects of maternal dietary selenium sources on growth performance, meat quality, antioxidant status and the immune response of broiler progeny
Shahzad Ashraf
A * , Shaukat Ali Bhatti A , Muhammad Yousaf B , Najam Us Sahar A and Muhammad Shoaib A
+ Author Affiliations
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A Institute of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 38040, Pakistan.
B Department of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur 63200, Pakistan.
Animal Production Science 63(6) 560-569 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN22083
Submitted: 24 May 2021 Accepted: 22 November 2022 Published: 19 December 2022
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing
Abstract
Context: Selenium is an important trace mineral and plays an important role in protection against oxidative stress and improving productivity of poultry.
Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different maternal selenium sources on growth performance, antioxidant status, immune responses, and meat quality of broiler offspring.
Methods: In total, 600 female and 180 male 50-week-old Ross-308 broiler breeder birds were randomly allocated to four treatments with five replicates, each having 30 females and nine males. The birds were given 2-week adaptation followed by 7-weeks of feeding of one of four experimental diets. In one dietary treatment, birds were fed a basal corn–soybean-based diet supplemented with inorganic selenium (sodium selenite, SS), while in the other three dietary treatments, birds were given either of the following organic selenium sources: selenium enriched yeast (SY), hydroxy-selenomethionine (OH-Se-Met) or l-selenomethionine (l-Se-Met), each included at the rate of 0.3 mg/kg in their experimental diets. During the 7th week of experiment, 350 eggs were collected from each dietary treatment. After incubation, 250 healthy chicks per parental dietary treatment were divided into five replicates with 50 birds each. Offspring from all parental dietary treatments were fed the same basal diet supplemented with 0.15 mg/kg of selenium from inorganic source during the starter (1–21 days) and finisher (22–35 days) phases.
Key results: Maternal selenium sources had no effect on feed intake, weight gain, feed conversion ratio, nutrient efficiency, carcass parameters, and antibody titre against Newcastle disease virus in broiler offspring. Drip loss and oxidative stability of breast meat, plasma total antioxidant and glutathione peroxidase status were improved in the offspring at Day 21, by inclusion of organic selenium in parent broiler breeders’ diet; however, these parameters were not affected at Day 35.
Conclusions: Maternal dietary organic selenium improved antioxidant status and meat quality in broiler offspring at the end of starter phase; however, dietary maternal selenium sources had no effect on productivity, immune responses, and carcass traits in broiler offspring.
Implications: This may provide consideration for more effective sources of selenium for improving meat quality of poultry birds especially in early stage of grow-out period.
Keywords: antioxidant status, broiler offspring, glutathione peroxidase, growth, immune responses, maternal nutrition, meat quality, selenium.
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