Iranian Veterinary Journal

Iranian Veterinary Journal

Effects of different levels of Fat on Performance and Blood Metabolites of Farmed 15-m Ostrich (Struthio camelus var. domesticus)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
iman hajkhodadadi
Hosein Moravej
10.22055/ivj.2016.34435
Abstract
    The effects of Persia Fat© supplementation were evaluated on performance, blood metabolite and nutrient digestibility in African domestic farmed ostrich at 15 months age. There were three treatments as follows; basal diet (1), basal diet plus fat (20 g/kg) (2) and basal diet plus fat (40 g/kg) (3). Eighteen ostrich were used in this experiment (6 birds per treatment). Significant effects of fat was detected on feed intake, dry matter intake parameters (P<0.05). There was no negative effect of fat on digestibility of gross energy (GE). Fat supplementation in diet significantly increased the digestibility of Crude fat (EE) compared with treatment 1. Fat supplementation there was no significant effect on serum glucose and total cholesterol level. Different levels of fat also significantly increased serum cholesterol LDL and cholesterol VLDL concentrations compared with treatment 1. In General, the use of fat especially at 40 g/kgin diet was effective to improve performance trait, feed intake, and nutrient digestibility in the ostrich chicks.
Keywords
Blood metabolites
performance
fat
Ostrich
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