Laying hen performance, egg quality improved and yolk 5-methyltetrahydrofolate content increased by dietary supplementation of folic acid

This study was performed to evaluate the effect of folic acid (FA) on performance, egg quality and yolk 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) content. A total of 384 Hy-line W36 strain hens from 52 to 58 weeks of age were randomly assigned to 4 groups, and each group received one of following dietary tr...

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Autores principales: Bagheri, Sattar, Janmohammadi, Hossein, Maleki, Ramin, Ostadrahimi, Alireza, Kianfar, Ruhollah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: KeAi Publishing 2019
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Poultry Nutrition
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6544570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31193894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aninu.2018.05.008
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Sumario:This study was performed to evaluate the effect of folic acid (FA) on performance, egg quality and yolk 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) content. A total of 384 Hy-line W36 strain hens from 52 to 58 weeks of age were randomly assigned to 4 groups, and each group received one of following dietary treatments: 0, 5, 10 and 15 mg FA/kg diet. A completely randomized design was used. Egg production percentage, egg mass and egg weight were increased significantly (P < 0.05) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) was reduced significantly (P < 0.05) by increasing FA content in diets. No significant differences were detected among treatments on egg quality except for shell thickness. The dietary supplementations of laying hens diets with FA significantly increased yolk 5-MTHF content (P = 0.02). Overall, these data demonstrate that dietary supplementation with FA raised 5-MTHF content of yolk and productivity of egg production in laying hens.

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