Effect of Thunbergia laurifolia leaves on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility and liver antioxidant enzymes of broilers fed mycotoxin-contaminated feed
Chatchai Donkotjan A B , Chutamas Benjanirut B and Kris Angkanaporn
B C
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A Animal Physiology Program, 530 Phosri Road, Makkhaeng Sub-district, Muang District, Udonthani 41000, Thailand.
B Department of Veterinary Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Henri Dunant Road, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
C Corresponding author. Email: Kris.A@chula.ac.th
Animal Production Science 60(16) 1885-1893 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN19570
Submitted: 4 October 2019 Accepted: 18 May 2020 Published: 23 June 2020
Abstract
Context: Contamination of feedstuff with mixed mycotoxins is one of the frequent problems found in broiler chicken production, especially in tropical countries with a hot and humid climate, such as Thailand.
Aims: An in vivo study was conducted to examine the effects of Thunbergia laurifolia Linn. (TL) leaves on the growth performance, nutrient digestibility and antioxidant enzyme activity of broiler chicks fed naturally mycotoxin-contaminated feed.
Methods: In total, 375 1-day-old male Arbor Acre broilers were allotted into five experimental groups, with five replicates each (15 chicks per replicate). The experimental groups were mycotoxin-free basal corn–soybean diet (T1, control), diet with mixed mycotoxins (aflatoxin, fumonisins, tricothecene and ochratoxin, T2), T2 diet but supplemented with 1% (w/w) yeast glucomannan (GM, T3), T2 diet but supplemented with 2% (w/w) TL (T4) and T2 diet but supplemented with both 2% (w/w) TL and 1% (w/w) GM (T5). Feed intake, bodyweight gain, feed conversion ratio, mortality rate, nutrient digestibility and the activity of antioxidant enzymes were measured at Days 21 and 42.
Key results: Broilers in T4 and T5 groups had a significantly (P < 0.05) higher nutrient digestibility than those in the other groups at Day 42, while broilers in the T3, T4 and T5 groups had a significantly (P < 0.05) higher glutathione peroxidase activity than those in the other groups. There was no difference in the growth performance among the groups, except chicks that received the mixed mycotoxin-contaminated feed had a higher feed conversion ratio and ate more feed than did those in the control group.
Conclusion: It is concluded that 2% TL and 1% GM helped ameliorate the adverse effect of mycotoxin, improving nutrient digestibility and increased the glutathione peroxidase activity, but without a significant change in growth rate.
Implications: Herbal plant TL can be used as an alternative mycotoxin adsorbent in broiler production.
Additional keywords: adsorbent, blue trumpet vine, broiler chicken, glutathione peroxidase.
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