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Dietary Chitosan Supplementation Improved Egg Production and Antioxidative Function in Laying Breeders.
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- Effect of dietary inclusion of chitosan on growth performance and blood indices of broiler chickens.Poultry science · 2026Article
- Chitosan and its derivatives: From tailored synthesis to multifaceted bioactivities and transformative applications in the food industry - a review.Food chemistry: X · 2026Review
- Effect of pomegranate peel powder extract (ethanolic) on performance, egg quality, thyroid hormones, antioxidant parameters, interferon γ, lipid and protein profiles of aged laying hens.Tropical animal health and production · 2025Article
- Enhancing impact of dietary nano formulated quercetin on laying performance: egg quality, oxidative stability of stored eggs, intestinal immune and antioxidants related genes expression.BMC veterinary research · 2024Article
- Effect of feeding chitosan and blend of essential organic acids on growth performance, haematological parameters and innate immunity in early aged male layer chicks.Tropical animal health and production · 2024Article
- Flight toward Sustainability in Poultry Nutrition with Black Soldier Fly Larvae.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
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Abstract
This study was conducted to explore the dietary effect of chitosan on the production performance, and antioxidative enzyme activities and corresponding gene expression in the liver and duodenum of laying breeders. A total of 450 laying breeders (92.44% ± 0.030% of hen-day egg production) were randomly assigned to five dietary treatments fed 8 weeks: maize-soybean meal as the basal control diet and the basal diet containing 250, 500, 1000 and 2000 mg/kg of chitosan, respectively. Each treatment was randomly divided into 6 equal replicates, with 15 laying breeders in each replicate. The results showed that dietary chitosan could increase hen-day egg production and feed conversion ratio, especially at the level of 250~500 mg/kg; however, chitosan had no prominent effect on feed intake and average egg weight. Dietary chitosan could dose-dependently promote the antioxidant status in serum, liver and duodenum of layer breeders. It has a better promotion effect at the level of 500 mg/kg; however, the effect was weakened at the level of 2000 mg/kg. Chitosan was likely to enhance the gene expression and activities of Nrf2-mediated phase II detoxification enzyme by up-regulating the expression of
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