Využití ostropestřce a konopí ve výživě drůbeže

Abstract

The aim of this work was to characterize the nutritional value of the milk thistle and hemp by-products and to study their influence on selected performance parameters, metabolism and poultry health by including different doses of these non-traditional feeds into compound feeds. Study of the influence of non-traditional feeds was conceptually divided into four individual experiments. Three experiments were carried out on fattened Ross 308 chickens and one on Bovans Brown laying hens. The addition of milk thistle seed cakes worsend performance parameters of broiler chickens compared to the control group. Benefits of potentially positive biologically active substances have not been prove in chickens. In the experiment with 7% of milk thistle seed cakes in the diet of laying hens led to higher antioxidant activity of the blood and a higher number of eggs with higher weight was achieved while at the same time was higher feed consumption. The Haugh units and millimeter height of the egg was higher, but a thinner egg shell were found in the experimental group. The addition of 5% and 15% of hempseed expellers worsed feed conversion ratio and led to lower weight gain. In the group with addition of 40% hempseed expellers, was found a higher chicken weight gain compared to the control group. In the experiment with 2.5% of hempseed expellers and 1% of hemp herb included to the chickens diet, were found balanced feed consumption and feed conversion ratio. Chickens performance parameters were not affected by experimental treatment