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Impact of Betaine Supplementation on the Growth Performance, Tonic Immobility, and Some Blood Chemistry of Broiler Chickens Fed Normal and Low Energy Diets During Natural Summer S

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Animal Health, Nutrition and Food Control (Veterinary Public Health, Animal Wealth Development, Animal Nutrition, Zoonoses, Food Control)

Abstract

The current study was conducted to investigate the effect of graded levels of betaine supplementation to the normal and low energy diets of broiler chickens during summer season on growth performance, tonic immobility (TI), economic value and some blood biochemical parameters. Three hundred one days-old broiler chicks were used. The chicks were divided into 6 groups (each of 50 chicks) and each group was 5 replicated (2x3 factorial design). The first, second and third groups were fed normal energy diet (NED) with 0, 1 and 2g betaine/kg diet (air dry basis) for 35 days, respectively. While, the fourth, fifth and sixth groups were fed low energy diet (LED) with 0, 1 and 2g betaine/kg diet (air dry basis) for 35 days, respectively. The experiment was carried out during summer season. Birds freely access to water and feed. Resultsshowedno significant difference of growth performance between NED and LED groups. Betaine supplementation (2g/kg diet) to both NED and LED increased significantly (p < 0.05) the body weight (BW) (1880.61 and 1787.66g, respectively), body weight gain (BWG) (1822.22 and 1728.77g, respectively), feed intake (FI) (3027.36 and 3136.42g, respectively), relative growth rate (RGR) (187.93 and 187.24, respectively) and TI (92.83 and 71.83s, respectively) with no significant difference in feed conversion (FCR) between the groups fed diet supplemented with or without betaine.Betaine supplementation 2g/kg diet to NED increased the total cost, total return, net profit, economic efficiency and performance index%, moreover improved the pancreatic and thyroid function and return the lipids indices of LED-fed birds to the normal level as in the NED-fed birds. No mortalities occur between the different groups.  Therefore, betaine can be included in normal energy diets of broiler chickens by level of 2g/kg diet for improving the growth performance, economic value and welfare during the summer season.

DOI

10.21608/zvjz.2018.7622

Authors

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Amer

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Nutrition & Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, 44511, Egypt

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shymaa_amer@yahoo.com

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0000–0002–8349–042

First Name

Anaam

Last Name

Omar

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E.

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Department of Nutrition & Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, 44511, Egypt

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First Name

Wafaa

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

A.M.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, 44511, Egypt

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First Name

Heba

Last Name

Gharib

MiddleName

S.A.

Affiliation

Public Health department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, 44511, Egypt

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First Name

Wafaa

Last Name

El-Eraky

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A.

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Department of Nutrition & Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, 44511, Egypt

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46

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1

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1465

Issue Date

2018-03-01

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2018-05-31

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2018-03-01

Page Start

37

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50

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1110-1458

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2357-075X

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601

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Zagazig Veterinary Journal

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Impact of Betaine Supplementation on the Growth Performance, Tonic Immobility, and Some Blood Chemistry of Broiler Chickens Fed Normal and Low Energy Diets During Natural Summer Stress

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22 Jan 2023