Effect of cooling water and inverse lighting on short chain fatty acid and blood lipid of broiler chickens in closed poultry house during hot weather

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Sang-Oh Park ◽  
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Byung-Sung Park ◽  
Jong Hwangbo ◽  
Hee-Chul Choi
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Broiler Chickens ◽  
Short Chain Fatty Acid ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
Blood Lipid ◽  
Chain Fatty Acid ◽  
Short Chain ◽  
Poultry House ◽  
Hot Weather ◽  
Inverse Lighting

scholarly journals Effects of Wheat Bran and Clostridium butyricum Supplementation on Cecal Microbiota, Short-Chain Fatty Acid Concentration, pH and Histomorphometry in Broiler Chickens

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2230
Author(s):  
Andor Molnár ◽  
Nikoletta Such ◽  
Valéria Farkas ◽  
László Pál ◽  
László Menyhárt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acid ◽  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Wheat Bran ◽  
Broiler Chickens ◽  
Short Chain Fatty Acid ◽  
Dietary Treatment ◽  
Chain Fatty Acid ◽  
Feed Additives ◽  
Short Chain ◽  
Cecal Microbiota

Feed additives that can improve intestinal health and maintain a diverse and resilient intestinal microbiota of poultry are of great importance. Thus, the current study investigated the effects of a single strain butyric acid-producing Clostridium (C. butyricum) with (symbiotic) or without wheat bran supplementation on cecal microbiota composition and gut health characteristics of broiler chickens. In total, 384 male Ross 308 day-old chickens were divided into four dietary treatment groups and fed ad libitum until day 37 of life. Cecal samples were taken for Illumina sequencing and pH and short-chain fatty acid analyses, as well as for histological analysis at the end of the experimental period. Neither of the supplemented diets improved chicken growth performance. Caecum was dominated by the members of Bacteroidetes phyla followed by Firmicutes in each dietary group. At the genus level, Bacteroides, Oscillospira, Akkermansia, Faecalibacterium, Ruminococcus and Streptococcus genera exceeded 1% relative abundance. Dietary treatment influenced the relative abundance of the Akkermansia genus, which had a lower relative abundance in the C. butyricum group than in the other groups and in the symbiotic group compared to the wheat bran supplemented group. Dietary treatment also altered cecal crypt depth and had a trend to modify the cecal fermentation profile. Additive effects of wheat bran and C. butyricum supplementation were not detected. Our results suggest that Akkermansia muciniphila colonization in chicken can be influenced by diet composition.

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