Evaluation of performance, biochemical parameters of blood, immune response and jejunal morphology of broiler chickens fed with whey and probiotic

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1 Student of MSC University of Birjand.

2 Professor, University of Birjand.

3 Associate Professor, University of Birjand.

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of whey on the performance, biochemical parameters of blood and immune response in broilers. A total 250 day-old Ross 308 male broiler were randomly distributed in 25 experimental units including 5 treatments with 5 replicates. The experimental diets included control, whey (at 4, 8 and 10% levels) and 0.1% of commercial probiotic (multifactorial 100). The analysis of data showed that the addition of probiotic and whey at 4% to broiler diets decreased the feed conversion ratio during the starter and finisher period (P<0.05). In the grower period, adding 4 and 8% whey resulted in an increase in body weight compared to diets contained 10% whey (P<0.05). The antibody titer against SRBC were higher at adding 4 whey in 35 days and were higher at 4 and 8% whey at 42 days (P <0.05). The Immunoglobulin M and G titer were not affected by experimental treatments at 35 and 42 days of age. The probiotic and whey at the level of 8% decreased serum cholesterol and also probiotic and whey at the levels of 4 and 8 levels decreased the concentration of LDL as compared to control (P≤0.05). The level of 8% whey increased the depth of the crypt and the height of villi to the crypt depth ratio compared to the control (P<0.05). Whey and probiotics increased the relative weight of bursa of fabricus and decreased abdominal fat percentage compared to the control group (P <0.05). Therefore, the findings showed that supplementation of whey up to 10% does not have undesirable effects on performance, it suggested that addition of whey up to 4% to broiler diets may reduced cholesterol, and FCR and improve the immune response of broiler chickens.

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  • Receive Date: 07 August 2018
  • Revise Date: 19 August 2018
  • Accept Date: 26 August 2018

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