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IMPACT OF SUPPLEMENTING L-CARNITINE ON PRODUCTIVE AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF MAMOURA CHICKEN DURING THE WINTER SEASON

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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The purpose of this study was to see how supplementing with L-carnitine affected the productive and reproductive performance of Mamoura chickens from 36 to 48 weeks of age during the winter season. A total number of 132 Mamoura laying hens (120 hens + 12 cocks), 36 weeks (wk.)-old, was used in a completely randomized design and randomly assigned into four dietary treatments as follow: L-carnitine at 0, 150, 300 and 450 mg/kg, each group was included on three replications (10 hens +1 cock in each replicate) and was kept until 48 weeks of age. Results revealed that supplementing different levels of L-carnitine resulted insignificant improvement in feed intake, laying %, fertility, hatchability % of fertile egg and hatchability % of setting egg. Also, the results showed that egg weight, egg mass, Chick weight at hatch liver weight % and heart weight % were significantly increased by feeding diets supplemented with L-carnitine. In hens fed diets supplemented with L-carnitine, feed conversion, mortality percent, serum albumin, cholesterol, serum triglycerides, low density lipoprotein, and aspartate transaminase enzyme levels were all significantly lower. It could be concluded that dietary L-carnitine fortified with300 or 450 mg/kg for Mamoura laying hens in winter led to improvement in productive and reproductive traits.

DOI

10.21608/epsj.2022.249544

Keywords

Mamoura breeders, Hatchability, Laying performance, L-carnitine

Authors

First Name

malak

Last Name

beshara

MiddleName

mansour

Affiliation

Department of poultry nutrition, Animal production research institute, agriculture research center, Egypt

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malakman88@yahoo.com

City

El-mansoura

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First Name

yaser

Last Name

rizk

MiddleName

saddek

Affiliation

animal production research anstitute

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yaser_sr2000@yahoo.com

City

aga

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Volume

42

Article Issue

2

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35679

Issue Date

2022-07-01

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2022-03-14

Publish Date

2022-06-30

Page Start

171

Page End

185

Print ISSN

1110-5623

Online ISSN

2090-0570

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493

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Egyptian Poultry Science Journal

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https://epsj.journals.ekb.eg/

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IMPACT OF SUPPLEMENTING L-CARNITINE ON PRODUCTIVE AND REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE OF MAMOURA CHICKEN DURING THE WINTER SEASON

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22 Jan 2023