ArticleAnimal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui)2023
Diet medication and beta-glucanase affect ileal digesta soluble beta-glucan molecular weight, carbohydrate fermentation, and performance of coccidiosis vaccinated broiler chickens given wheat-based diets.
Article in Animal nutrition (Zhongguo xu mu shou yi xue hui), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Abstract
Exogenous enzymes as alternatives to feed antibiotics in poultry has become an emerging research area with the emergence of antibiotic resistance. The objective was to evaluate the effects of diet medication (antibiotics) and β-glucanase (BGase) on digesta soluble β-glucan depolymerization, carbohydrate fermentation, and performance of coccidiosis-vaccinated broiler chickens fed wheat-based diets. A total of 1,782 broilers were raised on litter floor pens, and each treatment was assigned to 1 pen in each of the 9 rooms. The 3 dietary treatments were based on wheat as the sole grain (control, control + medication and control + 0.1% BGase), and the birds were fed the respective treatments ad libitum from 0 to 33 d. Treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design and analyzed as a one-way ANOVA. Beta-glucanase reduced the peak molecular weight, weight average molecular weight (Mw) and maximum molecular weight for the smallest 10% β-glucan molecules (MW-10%) in ileal digesta at d 11 and 33, whereas diet medication reduced Mw and MW-10% at d 33 compared to the control (
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