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ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 146, Issue 1-2, Pages 113-123Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2007.11.013
Keywords
Broiler performance; Nutrient digestibility; Phytase; Wheat; Xylanase
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- Danisco Animal Nutrition, Marlborough, UK
- Agric-Food Research and Development Initiative, Manitoba, Canada
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An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of supplementing phytase (PHY) and xylanase (XYL) individually or in combination on nutrient utilisation and broiler performance. Three hundred and twenty male broilers were divided into 80 groups of four birds and fed 10 wheat-based diets in mash form (eight groups per diet) from I to 23 days of age. The 10 diets were a positive control diet (calcium, 9 g/kg and non-phytate phosphorus, 4.3 g/kg) and a negative control diet (calcium, 8.2 g/kg and non-phytate phosphorus, 2.8 g/kg) supplemented with PHY at three levels (0, 250 and 500 FTU/kg) and XYL at three levels (0, 1250 and 2500 XU/kg) in a 3 x 3 factorial arrangement to give nine treatment combinations. Chromic oxide (3 g/kg) was added to the diets as a marker to determine nutrient digestibility. No interactions (P>0.05) between PHY and XYL were detected on any of the response criteria measured. Birds fed the negative control diet had lower (P<0.001) feed intake, body weight gain and tibia ash than the positive control diet. Phytase (250 FTU/kg) supplementation did not affect feed intake (P>0.05) and body weight gain (P>50.05). However, PHY at 250 FTU/kg
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