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Effect of Azolla feeding on the growth, feed conversion ratio, blood biochemical attributes and immune competence traits of growing turkeys

BACKGROUND AND AIM: In the recent past,few studies have been carried out in chicken to assess the effect of Azolla meal and raw Azolla feeding on the performance of chicken. If turkeys effectively use unconventional feedstuffs like Azolla without reducing the performance, it will increase the profit...

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Autores principales: Shukla, Mayank, Bhattacharyya, Amitav, Shukla, Pankaj Kumar, Roy, Debashis, Yadav, Brijesh, Sirohi, Rajneesh
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Publicado: Veterinary World 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805210
http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2018.459-463
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author Shukla, Mayank
Bhattacharyya, Amitav
Shukla, Pankaj Kumar
Roy, Debashis
Yadav, Brijesh
Sirohi, Rajneesh
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Bhattacharyya, Amitav
Shukla, Pankaj Kumar
Roy, Debashis
Yadav, Brijesh
Sirohi, Rajneesh
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description BACKGROUND AND AIM: In the recent past,few studies have been carried out in chicken to assess the effect of Azolla meal and raw Azolla feeding on the performance of chicken. If turkeys effectively use unconventional feedstuffs like Azolla without reducing the performance, it will increase the profitability of turkey business. Hence, a study was carried out to evaluate the effect of dried Azolla pinnata vis-a-vis raw Azolla as choice feeding on the growth, feed conversion ratio (FCR), blood biochemical attributes, and immune competence traits of growing turkeys under intensive system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 72, 8-week-old grower turkey poults of black variety were randomly distributed into three dietary treatments having three replicates each with eight birds. The birds of the control group (T1) were fed a basal diet (CP - 19.71% and ME - 2789.79 Kcal/kg), while the other group (T2) and choice-feeding group (T3) were fed 5% of basal diet replaced by dry Azolla powder on DM basis and ad libitumAzolla along with basal diet, respectively. RESULTS: There was no significant difference among the different groups in the average weekly weight gain during the entire experiment. FCR was significantly better (p<0.05) in the choice-feeding group compared to the other two experimental groups during 8-16 weeks of age. There was no significant difference among the treatment groups in any of the blood biochemical indices except plasma uric acid, which was significantly decreased (p<0.01) in T2 compared to T1 at 16 weeks of age. HA and IgM response to 1% sheep red blood cells (log2 titer) were numerically better in T2 and T3 compared to the T1. CONCLUSION: Thus, it may be inferred that choice feeding with Azolla, and basal diet may improve FCR without any adverse effect on blood biochemical attributes and immune competence traits.
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spelling pubmed-59607842018-05-25 Effect of Azolla feeding on the growth, feed conversion ratio, blood biochemical attributes and immune competence traits of growing turkeys Shukla, Mayank Bhattacharyya, Amitav Shukla, Pankaj Kumar Roy, Debashis Yadav, Brijesh Sirohi, Rajneesh Vet World Research Article BACKGROUND AND AIM: In the recent past,few studies have been carried out in chicken to assess the effect of Azolla meal and raw Azolla feeding on the performance of chicken. If turkeys effectively use unconventional feedstuffs like Azolla without reducing the performance, it will increase the profitability of turkey business. Hence, a study was carried out to evaluate the effect of dried Azolla pinnata vis-a-vis raw Azolla as choice feeding on the growth, feed conversion ratio (FCR), blood biochemical attributes, and immune competence traits of growing turkeys under intensive system. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 72, 8-week-old grower turkey poults of black variety were randomly distributed into three dietary treatments having three replicates each with eight birds. The birds of the control group (T1) were fed a basal diet (CP - 19.71% and ME - 2789.79 Kcal/kg), while the other group (T2) and choice-feeding group (T3) were fed 5% of basal diet replaced by dry Azolla powder on DM basis and ad libitumAzolla along with basal diet, respectively. RESULTS: There was no significant difference among the different groups in the average weekly weight gain during the entire experiment. FCR was significantly better (p<0.05) in the choice-feeding group compared to the other two experimental groups during 8-16 weeks of age. There was no significant difference among the treatment groups in any of the blood biochemical indices except plasma uric acid, which was significantly decreased (p<0.01) in T2 compared to T1 at 16 weeks of age. HA and IgM response to 1% sheep red blood cells (log2 titer) were numerically better in T2 and T3 compared to the T1. CONCLUSION: Thus, it may be inferred that choice feeding with Azolla, and basal diet may improve FCR without any adverse effect on blood biochemical attributes and immune competence traits. Veterinary World 2018-04 2018-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5960784/ /pubmed/29805210 http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2018.459-463 Text en Copyright: © Shukla, et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Roy, Debashis
Yadav, Brijesh
Sirohi, Rajneesh
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title_fullStr Effect of Azolla feeding on the growth, feed conversion ratio, blood biochemical attributes and immune competence traits of growing turkeys
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Azolla feeding on the growth, feed conversion ratio, blood biochemical attributes and immune competence traits of growing turkeys
title_short Effect of Azolla feeding on the growth, feed conversion ratio, blood biochemical attributes and immune competence traits of growing turkeys
title_sort effect of azolla feeding on the growth, feed conversion ratio, blood biochemical attributes and immune competence traits of growing turkeys
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805210
http://dx.doi.org/10.14202/vetworld.2018.459-463
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