Dietary synbiotic supplementation improves the growth performance, body antioxidant pool, serum biochemistry, meat quality, and lipid oxidative stability in broiler chickens

Kapil Dev; Nasir Akbar Mir; Avishek Biswas; Jyoti Kannoujia; Jubeda Begum; Rajiv Kant; Asitbaran Mandal

doi:10.1016/j.aninu.2020.03.002

Dietary synbiotic supplementation improves the growth performance, body antioxidant pool, serum biochemistry, meat quality, and lipid oxidative stability in broiler chickens

Anim Nutr. 2020 Sep;6(3):325-332. doi: 10.1016/j.aninu.2020.03.002. Epub 2020 Apr 7.

Authors

Kapil Dev^{1

2}, Nasir Akbar Mir¹, Avishek Biswas¹, Jyoti Kannoujia³, Jubeda Begum⁴, Rajiv Kant², Asitbaran Mandal¹

Affiliations

¹ ICAR-Central Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly 243122, India.
² Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad 211007, India.
³ CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 500007, India.
⁴ G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Pantnagar 263145, India.

Abstract

The present study investigated the effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus (LBA) and mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) supplementation on the production performance, serum biochemistry, antioxidant profile, health indices, meat quality, and lipid oxidative stability of broiler chicken. A total of 252 commercial broiler chickens at 1 d old of uniform body weight were randomly allocated to 6 maize-soybean-based dietary treatments: T₁ (control diet), T₂ ( antibiotic bacitracin methylene di-salicylate [BMD] at 20 mg/kg diet), T₃ (MOS at 0.1% + LBA at 10⁶ CFU/g feed), T₄ (MOS at 0.1% + LBA at 10⁷ CFU/g feed), T₅ (MOS at 0.2% + LBA at 10⁶ CFU/g feed), and T₆ (MOS at 0.2% + LBA at 10⁷ CFU/g feed). Each treatment was assigned to 6 replicates of 7 birds. The samples for meat quality and serum biochemistry analysis were taken from 12 birds per treatment (2 birds/replicate). The results revealed better (P < 0.01) growth performance and production efficiency of birds fed either T₅ or T₆ diet compared to control or BMD supplemented diet and BMD-supplemented birds superseded the control birds. Higher (P < 0.01) serum and liver antioxidant enzyme activities, meat antioxidant capacity (2, 2-azinobis-3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid [ABTS] and 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl [DPPH] assays], serum total protein, high-density lipoproteins (HDL) cholesterol (P < 0.05), and globulin levels (P < 0.01) were observed in birds fed either T₅ or T₆ diet compared to control or BMD supplemented birds, whereas, lower lipid oxidation (P < 0.01), cardiac risk ratio, atherogenic coefficient, atherogenic index of plasma, serum glucose, triglyceride, total cholesterol levels (P < 0.01), and serum albumin-to-globulin ratio (P < 0.05) were observed in the chickens. The pH of meat from birds fed T₄, T₅ or T₆ diet was lower (P < 0.01) compared to control and other treatments. The extract release volume (ERV), water holding capacity (WHC), and protein content of meat were higher (P < 0.05) in birds fed either T₅ or T₆ diet compared to control or BMD supplemented birds. Thus, it was concluded that the supplementation of 0.2% MOS along with LBA at 10⁶ CFU/g is optimum for better growth performance, serum biochemistry, antioxidant profile, health indices, meat quality, and lipid oxidative stability of broiler chickens.

Keywords: Antioxidant pool; Broiler chicken growth; Lactobacillus acidophilus; Manann-oligosaccharide; Meat quality; Serum biochemistry.