Agribusiness, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Cassava, Garri, food security, Agritech and the Red Meat Value Chain.
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Benefits of supplementing poultry diet with hatchery waste.
A recent research published in PlosOne shows that supplementing poultry diets with hatchery waste is beneficial to the birds as it enhances growth performance and confers immunity . The study has examined the effect of hatchery eggshell membranes (HESM) as a short term feed supplement on growth performance and immunity of chickens under bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenged conditions.
Eggshells are a significant part of hatchery waste which consist of calcium carbonate crust, membranes, and proteins and peptides of embryonic origins along with other entrapped contaminants including microbes.
The researchers of the University of Arkansas hypothesized that using this product as a nutritional additive in poultry diet may confer better immunity to the chickens in the paradigm of mammalian milk that enhances immunity.
Three studies were conducted to find the effect of HESM supplement on post hatch chickens. In the first study, the chickens were fed either a control diet or diets containing 0.5% whey protein or HESM as supplement and evaluated at 5 weeks of age using growth, hematology, clinical chemistry, plasma immunoglobulins, and corticosterone as variables.
The second and third studies were done to compare the effects of LPS on control and HESM fed birds at 5 weeks of age following at 4 and 24 h of treatment where the HESM was also sterilised with ethanol to deplete bacterial factors.
HESM supplement caused weight gain in 2 experiments and decreased blood corticosterone concentrations. While LPS caused a significant loss in body weight at 24 h following its administration, the HESM supplemented birds showed significantly less body weight loss compared with the control fed birds. The result shows that post-hatch supplementation of HESM improve performance, modulate immunity, and increase resistance of chickens to endotoxin.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Agribusiness ideas.
Popular Posts
-
Why Does My Cat Bite My Nose? Any cat parent will tell you that we’re passionate about our felines, but we may not be...
-
Financial intelligence, making your money work for you. Warren Buffett once said that as an investor, it is wise to be “Fearful when others...
-
Girl, 7, born with heart outside her chest hoping for operation.A seven-year-old girl who was born with her heart outside her chest is hea...
-
Fingerling production in cat fish farming is an essential part of the farm operation because it is the seed needed for production.The Cl...
-
Nigerian farmers set to cut rice price to N6, 000 per bag. The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria says it will reduce the price of loca...
-
Dairy cows when properly nurtured and managed produce at optimum rate providing enough milk for processing. The output from the cows dep...
AGRIBUSINESS EDUCATION.
Translate
I-CONNECT -AGRICULTURE
AGRIBUSINESS TIPS.
AGRIBUSINESS.
The Agriculture Daily
veterinarymedicineechbeebolanle-ojuri.blogspot.com Cassava: benefits of garri as a fermented food. Cassava processing involves fermentation which is a plus for gut health. The fermentation process removes the cyanogenic glucosides present in the fres...
No comments:
Post a Comment