Impact of Stored Wheat-based Feed on Gut Morphology, Digesta
Viscosity and Blood Metabolites of Broiler Chickens
Urooj Anwar, Muhammad Yousaf, Muhammad Aslam
Mirza and Muhammad Aziz-ur-Rahman*
Institute of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University
of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan *Corresponding author:
drazizurrahman@uaf.edu.pk
Abstract
The aim of current experiment was to evaluate the
effect of stored wheat based diet on intestinal morphology, digesta viscosity
digesta viscosity and blood metabolites of the broiler chicken birds. For this
purpose, 560-day old male broiler chicks were used with 8 replicates per
treatment and 10 birds per replicate. Corn-soybean based diet was considered as
control diet and the other six dietary treatments were prepared by replacing
corn of the corn soybean diet with 50% and 100% replacement of fresh, 1.5 year
stored and 2.5 year stored wheat. Results of intestinal morphology explored that
villus height and villus surface area were higher (P<0.05) in broilers reared on
corn soybean based diet and stored wheat diet as compared to the fresh wheat
based diets. Results of plasma metabolites represented that serum cholesterol
and urea nitrogen was high in diets contained new wheat as comparison to the
other experimental treatments (P>0.05). However, blood glucose was high in birds
fed stored wheat based diets and corn soy based diet (P<0.05). Replacement of
corn with fresh wheat 50% and 100% in the diet of broiler significantly enhanced
digesta viscosity (P<0.05). Based on results, it is concluded that stored wheat
successfully replace corn and new wheat in the diet of broilers and have
positive impact on digesta viscosity, intestinal morphology and blood
metabolites. Therefore, it is recommended that corn of corn soybean diet should
be replaced with stored wheat when stored wheat is available at lower price.
To Cite This Article:
Anwar U,Riaz M, Bilal Q, Yousaf M, Ashraf
M, Aziz-ur-Rahman M, 2023.
Impact of stored wheat-based feed on gut morphology, digesta viscosity and blood
metabolites of broiler chickens. Pak
Vet J, 43(1): 179-183.
http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2023.005