Effects of herbal tea residue supplement on growth performance,serum biochemi-cal and intestinal immune indexes in white feather broilers
10.16303/j.cnki.1005-4545.2024.07.25
- VernacularTitle:饲粮中添加凉茶渣对白羽肉鸡生长性能、血清生化及肠道免疫指标的影响
- Author:
Yue GUO
1
;
Kun OUYANG
;
Bin LIU
;
Bilan CHEN
;
Junyi LUO
;
Jiajie SUN
;
Qianyun XI
;
Yongliang ZHANG
;
Ting CHEN
Author Information
1. 华南农业大学动物科学学院广东省动物营养调控重点实验室/国家生猪种业工程中心/猪禽种业全国重点实验室,广东广州 510642
- Keywords:
herbal tea residue;
white feather broiler;
growth performance;
serum index;
intestinal immune index
- From:
Chinese Journal of Veterinary Science
2024;44(7):1534-1544
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This experiment aims to investigate the effects of a dietary supplement of herbal tea resi-due on white feather broilers in the prospectives of growth performance,serum indexes and intesti-nal immune indexes.A total of 280 1-day-old white feather broilers with similar body mass and good health were randomly divided into 4 groups with 5 replicates per group and 14 birds per repli-cate.Group Ⅰ(control group)was fed a basal diet.Groups Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ were fed a diet supple-mented with 2%,4%and 6%herbal tea residue powder,respectively.The feeding lasted for 49 days,and was divided into 2 phases from 1 to 21 days of age and 22 to 49 days of age.Blood,tissue and mucosa of the duodenum and jejunum were collected on 21 d and 49 d.Total cholesterol(T-CHO),triglyceride(TG),high density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C),low density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C)and the activities of aspartate aminotransferase(AST)and alanine amin-otransferase(ALT)in the serum were examined.The villus height and crypt depth of the jejunum were observed and measured by morphology.The mRNA expression levels of intestinal interleukin-1β(IL-1β),interleukin-2(IL-2),interleukin-4(IL-4),interleukin-10(IL-10)and tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α)were determined by qPCR.The results showed that compared with group Ⅰ,the mass of group Ⅲ on 21 d and 49 d significantly increased(P<0.05).The average daily feed intake of 22-49 d and 1-49 d significantly increased(P<0.05).The average daily mass gain of 1-21 d,22-49 d and 1-49 d significantly increased(P<0.05).In the serum of 21 d,compared with group Ⅰ,T-CHO in group Ⅱ significantly decreased(P<0.05).TG in groups Ⅱ,m and Ⅳ significantly de-creased(P<0.05).LDL-C and AST activity in group Ⅳ significantly decreased(P<0.05).In the serum of 49 d,T-CHO in group Ⅲ,LDL-C in group Ⅳ,HDL-C of groups Ⅲ and Ⅳ significantly increased(P<0.05),and the ALT activity of these two groups decreased(P<0.05).AST activity in group Ⅱ significantly decreased(P<0.05).In the duodenum of 21 d,compared with group Ⅰ,the expressions of TNF-α in group Ⅱ was significantly decreased(P<0.05).In the duodenum of 49 d,the expression of IL-10 in group Ⅱ was significantly increased(P<0.05),and the expression of IL-2 in groups Ⅲ and Ⅳ was significantly decreased(P<0.05).In the jejunum of 49 d,the ex-pression of IL-10 in group Ⅱ was increased(P<0.05),and the expression of IL-2 in groups Ⅲand Ⅳ was significantly decreased(P<0.05).In conclusion,dietary herbal tea residue can regulate circulating lipid level and enhance intestinal immunity of white feather broilers without affecting their normal growth performance.This experiment also suggested that the a 2%-4%supplementa-tion of herbal tea residues to white feather broilers was of good effect.