Guanidinoacetic acid supplementation is favourable to broiler diets even containing poultry by-product meal

cenesiz A. A., Yavas I., ciftci I., Ceylan N., Taskesen H. O.

BRITISH POULTRY SCIENCE, cilt.61, sa.3, ss.311-319, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 61 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00071668.2020.1720909
  • Dergi Adı: BRITISH POULTRY SCIENCE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, EMBASE, Food Science & Technology Abstracts, MEDLINE, Veterinary Science Database
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.311-319
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Creatine, chicken, energy utilisation, growth performance, breast meat, ACETIC-ACID, CREATINE, ENERGY, PERFORMANCE, PROTEIN, QUALITY, YIELD, TEMPERATURE, METABOLISM, FEEDS
  • Yozgat Bozok Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

1. Two consecutive trials were conducted to evaluate the effects of guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) supplementation (a creatine precursor) and energy levels in broiler diets based on maize-soybean meal (Trial 1) or that additionally included poultry by-product meal (PBPM; Trial 2) on growth performance, carcass yield and breast meat quality to 41 days of age. 2. A total of 792, one-day-old male Ross 308 broiler chickens were randomly distributed into six treatments - three energy levels (sufficient AME(n) or 0.2 and 0.4 MJ/kg reduced AME(n)) and two GAA levels (0.00% or 0.06%) with eight replicates for each trial. 3. Reducing dietary energy resulted in poorer body weight gain (BWG) and feed conversion ratios (FCR) for each trial (P < 0.05). However, GAA supplementation improved FCR, BWG and European Production Efficiency Factor (EPEF) (P < 0.05). 4. Dietary energy level and GAA addition had no significant effect on carcass parameters, drip loss, pH and chemical composition of breast meat (P > 0.05), but decreased relative liver weight (P < 0.05). 5. It was concluded that, regardless of dietary energy levels, supplementation of GAA to plant-based diets or those including PBPM has the potential to improve growth performance in broilers.