Vitamin Update and Sustainability

This presentation addressed the status of research on vitamin nutrition in poultry species and current recommended levels. The economic, environmental, and socio-political aspects of sustainability are addressed. Most of the information presented is described in detail in the book Optimum Vitamin Nutrition for More Sustainable Poultry Farming (Oviedo-Rondon et al., 2023). However, this presentation also used more recent publications and news of the latest events related to scientific recommendations and the worldwide vitamin market. The objective is to provide a brief overview of scientific findings to aid nutritionists in the decision-making process when selecting optimum levels for poultry nutrition. The challenges in determining optimum vitamin levels were discussed, and the metabolic nutritional assessment of vitamins was emphasized. Vitamin interactions with other nutrients must be taken into consideration when determining vitamin levels to use or interpreting data from vitamin evaluations. Multiple examples of poultry responses to vitamin levels were presented to illustrate the reasoning for optimum vitamin level selection and the multiple interactions with other nutrients on the responses observed. The sustainability aspects of vitamin levels and supply were addressed

Fatores que interferem no desenvolvimento embrionário e seus efeitos nos problemas metabólicos pós-eclosão em frangos de corte

Breeder farm and hatchery controlled conditions allow the handling of poultry production problems while the study of physiology is necessary to find appropriate solutions. Thus, pre-hatching growth is influenced by nutrition, age, genetics and metabolism of the layer at the laying moment, by adequate oxygen supply from laying to hatching, as well as by hatchery temperature and relative humidity. Pre-hatching hypoxia is a stimulus for pipping but if it is not synchronous to lung and heart maturation and embryonic metabolism, its lasting will favor the occurrence of diseases. Thyroid hormone production has decreased in modern broiler lines thus diminishing eggshell conductance, layer investment, embryo glicogenic activity and glicogen stock resulting in a longer pre-hatching hypoxia and ascite and other post-hatching diseases.As condições controladas dos matrizeiros e incubatórios permitem manipular alguns problemas da indústria avícola, enquanto o estudo da fisiologia é necessário para encontrar as soluções adequadas. Assim, o desenvolvimento embrionário é influenciado pela nutrição, idade, genética e estado fisiológico da matriz no momento da ovoposição, como também pelo fornecimento adequado de oxigênio desde a ovoposição até a eclosão, e pela temperatura e umidade relativa do incubatório. A hipóxia pré-eclosiva é um estímulo para a bicagem, mas, se o tempo cronológico em que ocorre não é sincrônico com as maturações pulmonar e cardíaca e com o metabolismo embrionário a hipóxia será maior e influenciará o aparecimento de doenças. As linhagens modernas de frangos têm diminuído a produção dos hormônios tiroideanos, ocasionando menor condutância da casca, habilidade materna, atividade glicogênica e armazenamento de glicogênio no embrião para a eclosão, resultando numa maior hipoxia pré-eclosiva, maior incidência da ascite e outros problemas pós-natais

Mananoligossacarídeos em dietas para frangos de corte

Objetivou-se avaliar dietas contendo mananoligossacarídeos (MOS) como aditivo alternativo aos promotores de crescimento por meio do estudo da morfometria do intestino e do desempenho de frangos de corte. Para tanto, 1280 pintos de corte foram distribuídos em delineamento inteiramente casualizado com quatro tratamentos (controle negativo, CN: dieta isenta de antibiótico; controle positivo, CP: dieta contendo antibiótico e duas dietas, MOS 1 e MOS 2, nas quais foram adicionadas ao CN duas fontes distintas de MOS) e oito repetições, sendo a unidade experimental composta por 40 aves. Para submeter as aves ao desafio sanitário, foi formulada uma dieta basal com milho, farelo de soja e farinha de carne e ossos. Adotou-se cama reutilizada, limpeza dos bebedouros duas vezes por semana e oferta semanal de água contaminada com cama. Foram avaliadas altura de vilo e profundidade de cripta do duodeno, jejuno e íleo, consumo da dieta, peso médio, ganho de peso e conversão alimentar das aves. Houve melhora na profundidade de cripta no jejuno e na altura de vilo no íleo das aves alimentadas com dietas contendo MOS. A adição de MOS, independente da fonte, resultou em melhor conversão alimentar em relação às aves do CN, sendo similares às aves do CP. Os mananoligossacarídeos podem ser utilizados como aditivo alternativo aos promotores de crescimento em dietas para frangos de corte, porém, dependendo da fonte, esta pode acarretar em pequenas diferenças no desempenho das aves.This study aimed to evaluate mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) as an alternative additive to growth promoters in broiler diets by studying the morphology of the intestine and the performance. For this purpose, 1280 broiler chicks were distributed in a completely randomized design with four treatments (negative control, NC: diet free of antibiotics; positive control, PC: diet with antibiotic and two diets, MOS 1 and MOS 2, in which were added to NC two distinct sources of MOS) and eight repetitions, and the experimental unit consisted of 40 birds. To submit birds to the challenge, a basal diet was formulated with corn, soybean meal and meat and bones meal, was adopted used litter, cleaning of water troughs twice a week and were offered weekly water contaminated with litter. The variables evaluated were villus height and crypt depth of duodenum, jejunum and ileum, feed intake, weight, body weight gain and feed conversion ratio. There was improvement in crypt depth in jejunum and in villus height in ileum of birds fed diets containing MOS. The addition of MOS, regardless of source, resulted in improvement in feed conversion ratio than birds of NC, and were similar to the birds of PC. The mannan oligosaccharides can be used as an alternative additive to growth promoters in diets for broiler chickens, but depending on the source, this can result in small differences in bird performance

Influence of extruded soybean meal with varying fat and oleic acid content on nitrogen-corrected apparent metabolizable energy in broilers

ABSTRACT: High oleic (HO) soybeans may serve as a value-added feed ingredient; providing amino acids and estimating their dietary energy value for broilers is essential. In this study, we determined the apparent metabolizable energy (AME), AME corrected for zero nitrogen retention (AMEn), digestibility, and nitrogen (N) retention of HO full-fat (HO-FF) soybean as compared to solvent-extracted soybean meal (SE-SBM), normal oleic full-fat (NO-FF) and extruded expeller (NO-EE) soybean. A total of 240 Ross-708 male broilers were selected, with 8 replicates per treatment and 6 chicks per cage. The AME and AMEn were estimated using the difference method with a 30% inclusion of test ingredients using a corn-soy reference diet with partial and total excreta collection. The index method with partial excreta collection used titanium dioxide as an inert marker. The same starter diet was provided for all birds for 14 d, followed by the reference and assay diets for the next 6 adaptation days. Total excreta were collected twice a day for 3 d. The AME and AMEn values determined for the HO-FF and NO-FF were higher (P < 0.001) than the NO-EE and SE-SBM. The AME of SE-SBM and NO-EE were similar with both methods, but the AMEn of SE-SBM was lower than the NO-EE only with the partial collection method. The agreement between AME and AMEn values determined by partial and total excreta collection analysis was 98%. Data from the total excreta collection method yielded higher AME and AMEn values (P < 0.001) than those from the partial collection method. In summary, HO-FF and NO-FF soybean meals had similar AME and AMEn values. The HO-FF soybean had 39 and 24% higher AME and AMEn than SE-SBM. Hence, high oleic full-fat soybean meal could serve as a valuable alternative feed ingredient to conventional SE-SBM meals in broiler diets, providing additional energy while providing amino acids and more oleic acid to enrich poultry meat products

Effects of high oleic full-fat soybean meal on broiler live performance, carcass and parts yield, and fatty acid composition of breast fillets

ABSTRACT: The effects of high oleic oil full-fat (HO-FF) soybean meal (SBM) on broiler meat quality could lead to value-added food products. This experiment evaluated the effects of dietary normal oleic extruded expelled (NO-EE), normal oleic full-fat (NO-FF), or HO-FF SBM on live performance, carcass and parts yield, and breast fatty acid composition. Diets were formulated to be isoenergetic and isonitrogenous. A total of 540 Ross-708 male broilers were raised on floor pens with 18 broilers/pen and 10 replicates/treatment. Data were analyzed in a completely randomized design. Chickens were fed with a starter (0–14 d), grower (15–35 d), or a finisher diet (36–47 d) up to 47 d. Chickens were weighed at 7, 14, 35, and 47 d. At 48 d, 4 broilers per pen were processed. Breast samples were collected and evaluated for quality and fatty acid content. Broilers fed diets with NO-EE were heavier (P < 0.05) than chickens fed diets with full-fat SBM (NO-FF and HO-FF) at d 7, 14, 35 while feed conversion ratio (FCR) of NO-EE was best (P < 0.05) at 7 and 47 d. Carcass yield was also higher for broilers fed NO-EE than the other treatments. Diet did not affect parts yield, breast meat color, cooking, drip loss, white stripping, or SM quality parameters. More breast fillets without wooden breast (score 1) were observed (P < 0.05) for NO-FF than the other 2 treatments. The breast meat fatty acid profile (g fatty acid/100 g of all fatty acids) was significantly affected (P < 0.001) by diet. Broilers fed the HO-FF SBM diet had 54 to 86% more oleic acid, 72.5% to 2.2 times less linoleic acid, and reduced stearic and palmitic acid levels in the breast meat than NO-FF and NO-EE. In conclusion, feeding HO-FF to broilers enriched the oleic acid content of their breast meat while reducing the saturated fatty acid content relative to the NO-FF and NO-EE treatment groups