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- Title
EFFECT OF PARTIAL AND TOTAL SUBSTITUTION FOR AZOLLA PLANT (AZOLLA PINNATA) POWDER INSTEAD OF SOYBEAN MEAL IN BROILER CHICKENS DIETS ON BLOOD BIOCHEMICAL TRAITS.
- Authors
AL-Rekabi, Mohannad M.; Abdul-Lateef Ali, Nihad; Abbas, Fadhil Rasul
- Abstract
This experiment was conducted in the poultry field, Poultry Department belonging to the Center for Livestock and Fisheries, Directorate of Agricultural Research, Ministry of Science and Technology for the period from 8/7/2018 to 19/8/2018 in order to study the effect of partial and total substitution for Azolla plant (Azolla pinnata) powder instead of soybean meal in broiler chickens diets on blood biochemical traits. A 105 chick of unsexed broiler chickens (Ross strain), with one day's age were used, where they were randomly divided into five treatments, with a rate of 21 birds per treatment and each treatment consisted of three replicates (7 birds per replicate). The experimental treatments were as follows: The first treatment: the feed provided to the chicks of this treatment for the duration of the experiment and without any addition or substitution, it was used as a control group, the second treatment: the feed provided to the chicks by substituting Azolla plant 5% instead of soybean meal, the third treatment: the feed provided to the chicks by substituting Azolla plant 10% instead of soybean meal, the fourth treatment: the feed provided to the chicks by substituting Azolla plant 15% instead of soybean meal and the fifth treatment: the feed provided to the chicks by substituting Azolla plant 20% instead of soybean meal. The study included the following traits: concentration of uric acid, total protein, concentration of albumin, concentration of globulin, G / A ratio, concentration of total cholesterol, concentration of triglyceride, concentration of High-density lipoprotein, concentration of low-density lipoprotein, thyroid hormones T3 and T4, Alanine transaminase enzyme (ALT), Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) enzyme and concentration of glutathione peroxidase enzyme. The results indicated that the substitution of Azolla plant with the percentage of (5, 10, 15, 20%) led to raising the concentration of total protein, globulin, high-density lipoproteins, thyroid hormones T3 and Glutathione peroxidase as well as a significant decrease in total cholesterol, triglycerides and low-density lipoproteins were recorded. It is concluded from the current experiment that the substitution of the Azolla plant instead of soybean meal can lead to improving some of the biochemical traits for broiler chickens blood.
- Subjects
AZOLLA; SOYBEAN meal; BROILER chickens; TRIGLYCERIDES; CHOLESTEROL
- Publication
Plant Archives (09725210), 2020, Vol 20, Issue 1, p1344
- ISSN
0972-5210
- Publication type
Article