Effects of Dietary Zinc Levels on the Growth Performance, Organ Zinc Content, and Zinc Retention in Broiler Chickens

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Zhang, T. Y.

作者： Zhang, T. Y.;Liu, J. L.;Zhang, J. L.;Zhang, N.;Yang, X.;Qu, H. X.;Xi, L.;Han, J. C.;Zhang, J. L.;Zhang, N.;Yang, X.

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关键词： Broiler chickens; growth; requirement; retention; zinc

期刊名称：BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF POULTRY SCIENCE （ 影响因子：0.826； 五年影响因子：1.178 ）

ISSN： 1516-635X

年卷期： 2018 年 20 卷 1 期

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摘要： The objective of this study was to investigate the optimal zinc (Zn) requirement of broiler chickens based on Zn retention. On the day of hatch, 350 male Ross 308 broilers were randomly assigned to seven treatments with five replicates of ten birds each. Zinc was supplemented as ZnSO4 center dot 7H(2)O at 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, or 120 mg/kg in the starter diet (fed from 1 to 21 d of age) and at 0, 16, 32, 48, 64, 80, or 96 mg/kg in the grower diet (fed from 22 to 42 d of age). The analyzed Zn levels were 34.98 and 27.57 mg/kg in the basal starter and grower diets, respectively. Supplemental Zn levels did not influence body weight gain, feed intake, feed conversion ratio, or liver Zn content of broilers at 21 and 42 d of age (p> 0.05). Tibia ash Zn content of 21-d-old broilers increased when Zn supplementation level increased from 0 to 40 mg/kg Zn in (p< 0.05). The highest breast muscle Zn content in 42-d-old broilers was observed when 100 and 80 mg Zn/kg was supplemented in the starter and grower diets, respectively. Fecal Zn content, Zn intake, Zn excretion, and Zn retention of 31-to 33-d-old broilers linearly increased with supplemental Zn levels (p< 0.05). Zinc retention values, calculated as the difference between Zn intake and Zn excretion, were negative, about zero, and positive when starter/grower diets were supplemented with 0/0 and 20/16, 40/32, and 60/48 and 120/96 mg/kg, respectively. These results indicate that supplementing 40 and 32 mg Zn/kg in starter and grower diets, respectively, promote the growth performance of broiler chickens, while reduce Zn excretion in the environment.

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