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The interactive effects of Eimeria acervulina infection and phytase for broiler chicks
Authors
Allen
Angel
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B.C. Watson
Beaver
Boling
Brown
Brown
Brown
Cabahug
Fox
Giraldo
Gray
Harland
Hein
J.L. Shelton
J.O. Matthews
Keshavarz
Kouwenhoven
L.L. Southern
Matthews
Morehouse
National Research Council
Southern
Southern
Southern
Stephens
Ward
Watkins
Willis
Publication date
1 January 2005
Publisher
'Oxford University Press (OUP)'
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Abstract
An experiment was conducted to determine the interactive effects of Eimeria acervulina infection and phytase in male broiler chicks. Chicks were standardized from 0 to 4 d posthatching, and the assay period was 5 to 15 d. Treatments were replicated with 6 pens of 5 chicks each. The initial and final BW were 67 and 363 g. A corn-soybean meal diet formulated to provide 1.26% total Lys and 3,200 kcal of ME/kg was used, and it was adequate in all other nutrients except Ca and nonphytate P (NPP) when appropriate. The treatments were in a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial arrangement: adequate Ca and NPP (1.0% Ca and 0.45% NPP) or inadequate Ca and NPP (0.80% Ca and 0.25% NPP), 0 or 600 phytase units/kg of diet, and uninfected or infected with 400,000 E. acervulina oocysts on d 0, 3, and 6 of the experiment. Daily gain, average daily feed intake, and gain:feed (GF) were reduced (P \u3c 0.01) by the coccidial infection and the reduction in Ca and NPP. Phytase addition increased (P \u3c 0.02) average daily gain and average daily feed intake, regardless of the Ca and NPP contents of the diet or the presence of coccidiosis. The GF was increased by phytase but only in uninfected chicks (phytase x coccidiosis, P \u3c 0.02). Toe and tibia ash percentages were decreased (P \u3c 0.01) in chicks fed diets deficient in Ca and NPP, but tibia ash was decreased more by Ca and NPP in healthy chicks than in infected chicks (coccidiosis x Ca and NPP, P \u3c 0.02). Phytase increased (P \u3c 0.02) toe and tibia ash but only in diets deficient in Ca and NPP (phytase x Ca and NPP, P \u3c 0.01). Phytase increased toe ash percentage of healthy chicks fed diets deficient in Ca and NPP, but it had less of an effect in infected chicks fed diets deficient in Ca and NPP (coccidiosis x Ca and NPP x phytase, P \u3c 0.08). Also, phytase was less effective in increasing tibia ash percentage in coccidiosis-infected chicks than in uninfected chicks (phytase x coccidiosis, P \u3c 0.02). These data indicate that phytase is effective in the presence of a coccidial infection, but based on GF and tibia ash percentage, it may not be as effective as in uninfected chicks. Also, phytase increased average daily gain and average daily feed intake in uninfected chicks fed diets formulated to be adequate (or in excess) in all nutrients for male broiler chicks. ©2005 Poultry Science Association, Inc
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