Effect of dietary supplementation of Lactobacillus-fermented Artemisia princeps on growth performance, meat lipid peroxidation, and intestinal microflora in Hy-line Brown male chickens

Abstract

The objective of this experiment was to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation of Lactobacillus-fermented Artemisia princeps (LFA) on growth performance, meat lipid peroxidation, and intestinal microflora in Hy-line Brown male chickens. A total of six hundred twenty-four 1-d-old Hy-Line Brown male chicks were randomly allotted to 3 dietary treatments with 4 replicated pens consisting of 52 chicks. The control diet was formulated to be adequate in energy and nutrients. Two additional diets were prepared by adding 2.5 or 5.0 g/kg of LFA to the control diet. The experimental diets were fed on an ad libitum basis to the birds during 7 wk. Body weight gain and feed intake were recorded at 2 and 7 wk. At the end of the experiment, 2 birds from each treatment were killed by cervical dislocation and the samples for ileal content, breast, and thigh meat were collected for the determination of meat lipid peroxidation and microbial population. Results indicated that increasing inclusion level of LFA in diets improved BW gain (linear and quadratic, P < 0.05) and tended to improve feed efficiency (linear and quadratic, P < 0.10) of birds during 0 to 7 wk. Feeding the diets containing increasing amounts of LFA to birds reduced (quadratic, P < 0.05) thiobarbituric acid-reactive substance (TBARS) values in breast and thigh meat during 15 d of storage. The concentrations of Lactobacillus spp. in the ileal content of birds increased (linear and quadratic, P < 0.05), but those of Salmonella spp. tended to be decreased (quadratic, P < 0.10) as inclusion level of LFA in diets increased. These results suggest that dietary LFA may be used as a functional ingredient to improve growth performance, meat lipid stability, and intestinal health of birds.

Comparison of the Dietary Supplementation of Lactobacillus plantarum, and Fermented and Non-Fermented Artemisia Annua on the Performance, Egg Quality, Serum Cholesterol, and Eggyolk-Oxidative Stability During Storage in Laying Hens

“…The inclusion of Artemisia capillaris was reported to increase egg production of laying hens (Kim et al, 2010). Positive effects on body weight gain and feed efficiency were also reported by supplementing Lactobacillus-fermented Artemisia princeps for broilers (Kim et al, 2012a). There are many factors that could lead to the difference in the mentioned results viz., dietary level, processing conditions, surveying purpose, and some others.…”

“…Enhanced antioxidant and antibacterial capacities were also reported in a fungi-fermented medicinal plant (Bletilla striata) (Dong et al, 2015). The supplementation of Lactobacillus-fermented Artemisia princeps has been reported to improve the growth performance, meat lipid stability, and gut health of broilers (Kim et al, 2012a).…”

Effects of Dietary Supplementation of Fermented Rice Bran (FRB) or Fermented Broken Rice (FBR) on Laying Performance, Egg Quality, Blood Parameter, and Cholesterol in Egg Yolk of Hy-Line Brown Laying Hens

“…To our knowledge, however, there have been no products of rice bran or half crushed rice on laying performance of birds, and therefore, it is difficult to compare previous data with those determined in this experiment. It is suggested, however, that fermentation processes of plant materials are able to elevate the efficacy of their antioxidant and antiinflammatory properties to a level greater than that in the raw materials (Lee et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2011;Kim et al, 2012). In addition, fermented products were more palatable compared to the original materials as fermentation could produce preferred water soluble vitamin such as B 1 , B 2 and B 12 , and minerals (Kubad et al, 1997).…”

“…However, the response of animals to feed containing FRB or FBR with respect to laying performance, blood parameters, and cholesterol in egg yolk has yet to be described. The fermentation of materials with microbial inoculums has been widely adopted to develop novel functional ingredients because this process may promote their functional quality such as antioxidant (Lee et al, 2008;Dini, 2010;Wang et al, 2011;Cao et al, 2012;Kim et al, 2012).…”

Optimization of response surface and neural network models in conjugation with desirability function for estimation of nutritional needs of methionine, lysine, and threonine in broiler chickens

“…multi-objective algorithm provides the possibility for responses to be correlated concurrently. This may lead to improved fits to data and decreases parameter uncertainty (Kim et al, 2012). Strathe et al (2011) found that analyzing growth data for dose-response modeling by the use of multivariate model would be more accurate than univariate analysis.…”