Agrotechnology

Effect of different levels of wheat distiller’s dried grains and enzymes supplementation on fatty acids of broiler chickens’ breast muscle

International Conference on Agriculture, Food and Aqua

November 22-23, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa

Nuhu Bello Rano

Bayero University, Nigeria

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Agrotechnology

Abstract:

An experiment was conducted to determine the effects of diets containing different levels of wheat distillers dried grains with solubles (wDDGS) and enzyme inclusion on the composition of categories of fatty acids of ether extract from broiler breast meat. One hundred and eighty (180) day-old Ross broiler chicks were fed diets in a completely randomized design in a 2???3 factorial arrangement comprising two wDDGS levels of 0 and 15% and three enzyme levels of No Enzyme (NE), + Enzyme A (EA) and + Enzyme B (EB) designated as Diets A, B, C, D, E and F, respectively. The experiment lasted for six weeks. The chicks were individually weighed, wing tagged and assigned to six groups (dietary treatments) of 30 chicks per treatment. Each group was further divided into five sub-groups consisting of six birds per replicate. The experimental diets were iso-caloric with varying metabolisable energy. The diets and clean drinking water were provided ad libitum to these birds. The enzyme was included at 0.5 kg /ton of complete diet. The data were statistically compared for the effects of wDDGS, enzyme and wDDGS???Enzyme interaction at P<0.05. Results revealed that wDDGS inclusion did not affect the composition of categories of fatty acids. Similarly, no significant (P>0.05) interaction effects of wDDGS levels and enzyme supplementation was observed on any category of fatty acids. However, enzyme B (Avizyme 1505) supplementation significantly (P<0.05) increased the composition of Mono-Unsaturated Fatty Acids (MUFA) and hence, positive effect in improving the quality of broiler breast meat.

Biography :

Nuhu Bello Rano has completed his PhD from Newcastle University, UK. He is the Postgraduate Studies Coordinator, Animal Science, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. He has published more than 25 peer reviewed papers in reputed journals/conference proceedings.

E-mail: nbrano.asc@buk.edu.ng