Document Type : Research Paper
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PhD Graduated of Animal Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran
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Associate Professor Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran
Abstract
The current study in order to investigate the effects of feeding different levels corn hull as fiber source on blood’s parameters and liver’s enzymes in broiler type chickens. Two hundred and forty day-old Ross 308 strain broiler type chickens were used randomly in four treatments and keeping 1 to 42 day. Treatments include levels of 0, 2.5, 5 and 7,5 percent of corn hull in diets. During the experiments two types of diet including starter and grower used. According to their needs recommended by the National Research Council (NRC, 1994) and all diets were calculated in iso-nutritive to meet or exceed the nutrient for broilers based on corn and soybeans. After 42 days, two bird from each replicates were randomly selected for serum biochemical and liver enzyme profile analysis. Corn hull significantly decreased weight gain and feed intake (P<0.05), but had no significant effect on feed conversion ratio (P>0.05). None of blood parameters and liver enzymes including glucose, triglyceride, total cholesterol, protein, albumin, uric acid, phosphor, calcium, HDL, LDL, VLDL, AST, ALT and ALP were not affected by different levels of corn hull and there was no significant difference between treatments (P>0.05). Overall, this experiment showed that the fiber that was consumed did not have any affect neither the blood parameters nor liver enzymes in this experiment.
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