Desirable effects of dietary 4-O-methyl-glucuronoarabinoxylan from the Echinacea plant on growth performance, thigh meat quality and development of small intestine in female Partridge-Shank broilers
Qing-Chang Ren A , Jing-Jing Xuan A B , Chuan-Yan Che A , Xin-Chao Yan A and Zhong-Ze Hu A B
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A No. 9, Donghua Road, Fengyang Campus, College of Animal Science, Anhui Science and Technology University, Fengyang 233100, PR China.
B Corresponding authors. Email: xuanjj@ahstu.edu.cn; hzhongz@126.com
Animal Production Science 60(2) 288-295 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN18416
Submitted: 1 July 2018 Accepted: 2 May 2019 Published: 11 December 2019
Abstract
In this trial we aimed to assess the effects of dietary supplementation of 4-O-methyl-glucuronoarabinoxylan (4OMG) on growth performance, thigh meat quality and small intestine development of female Partridge-Shank broilers. A total of 240 1-day-old female Partridge-Shank broilers were randomly distributed to four groups with three replicates of 20 within each group. Groups received either 0, 15, 20 or 25 g 4OMG/kg DM of diet. During the whole experiment of 60 days, broilers had ad libitum access to water and feed. At pen level, feed intake was recorded daily and broilers were weighed at the start and end of the experiment. For each group, three pens with a total of 20 broilers were randomly selected to determine the thigh meat quality and the small intestine development of broilers. Broilers fed diets with higher 4OMG had greater final liveweight (P = 0.004), daily bodyweight gain (P = 0.004) and gain-to-feed ratio (P < 0.001), muscle pH values (P = 0.031) and redness (P = 0.001), duodenal weight index (P = 0.042), jejunal (P = 0.043) and ileal length (P = 0.049), duodenal (P < 0.001) and ileal villus height (P = 0.008), but lower percentage of dead birds (P < 0.001), drip loss (P = 0.042) and shear force value (P = 0.043) of the thigh muscles. These results indicate that increasing dietary supplementation of 4OMG may improve growth performance and meat quality of female Partridge-Shank broilers through better development of small intestine.
Additional keywords: crypt depth, Echinacea purpurea polysaccharide, villus height.
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