Open Access
Research
(Published
online: 30-12-2016)
24.
The effect of dietary supplementation of
salts of organic acid on production performance of laying hens -
Ravinder Dahiya, Raj Singh Berwal, Sajjan Sihag, Chandrashekhar
Santosh Patil and Lalit
Veterinary World, 9(12): 1478-1484
doi:
10.14202/vetworld.2016.1478-1484
Ravinder Dahiya:
Department of Animal Nutrition, Lala Lajpat Rai University of
Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India;
armaandahiya42@yahoo.com
Raj Singh Berwal:
Department of Animal Nutrition, Lala Lajpat Rai University of
Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India;
rajberwal66@gmail.com
Sajjan Sihag:
Department of Animal Nutrition, Lala Lajpat Rai University of
Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India;
sihagsajjan54@gmail.com
Chandrashekhar Santosh Patil:
Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Lala Lajpat Rai
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana,
India; dr.cspatil03@gmail.com
Lalit:
Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Lala Lajpat Rai
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana,
India; drlalit78@gmail.com
Received: 06-05-2016, Accepted: 28-11-2016, Published Online:
30-12-2016
Corresponding author:
Chandrashekhar Santosh Patil, e-mail: dr.cspatil03@gmail.com
Citation:
Dahiya R, Berwal RS, Sihag S, Patil CS, Lalit (2016) The effect of
dietary supplementation of salts of organic acid on production
performance of laying hens,
Veterinary World, 9(12):
1478-1484.
Abstract
Aim:
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of
supplementing different levels of salts of organic acid in the
laying hen’s diet on their production performance and egg quality
parameters during a period of 16-week.
Materials and Methods:
A
total of 140 white leghorn laying hens at 24 weeks of age were
randomly distributed to seven dietary treatment groups, i.e. T1
(control), T2 (0.5% sodium-butyrate), T3 (1.0% sodium-butyrate),
T4 (1.5% sodium-butyrate), T5 (0.5% calcium-propionate), T6 (1.0%
calcium-propionate) and T7 (1.5% calcium-propionate) consisting of
5 replications of 4 birds each in each treatment and housed in
individual cages from 24 to 40 weeks of age. Feed intake, percent
hen-day egg production, egg weight, egg mass production, feed
conversion ratio (FCR), and economics of supplementation of salts
of organic acids in layers’ ration were evaluated.
Results:
The dietary supplementation of salts of organic acids did not
significantly affect the feed intake (g/day/hen) and body weight
gain (g). Different levels of supplementation significantly
(p<0.05) improved production performance (percent hen-day egg
production and egg mass production) as compared to control group.
FCR in terms of feed intake (kg) per dozen eggs was lowest
(1.83±0.05) in T4 and feed intake (kg) per kg egg mass was lowest
(2.87±0.05) in T5 as comparison to control (T1) group. Salts of
organic acids supplementation resulted in significant (p<0.05)
improvement in FCR. Egg weight was significantly (p<0.05)
increased at 0.5% level of salts of organic acids in the diet. The
cumulative mean values of feed cost per dozen egg production were
Rs. 44.14, 42.40, 42.85, 43.26, 42.57, 43.29 and 43.56 in
treatment groups T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6 and T7, respectively, and
reduction in feed cost per kg egg mass production for Rs. 0.52 and
0.99 in groups T2 and T5, respectively, in comparison to T1 group.
Conclusions:
It can be concluded that supplementation of salts of organic acids
may improve persistency of lay, egg weight, and FCR. From
economical point of view, egg production was more profitable at
0.5% level of sodium butyrate and 0.5% level of calcium propionate
which reduced the feed cost per dozen eggs and per kg egg mass
production without affecting the egg quality.
Keywords:
calcium-propionate, egg production, feed conversion ratio, feed
intake, sodium butyrate and layers.
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