Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Intestinal barrier function, caecal microbiota and growth performance of thermoneutral or heat stressed broiler chickens fed reduced crude protein diets supplemented with guanidinoacetic acid |
| Authors: |
Reza Barekatain, Vivienne Inhuber, Nishchal Sharma, Tanya Nowland, Thi Thu Hao Van, Robert J. Moore, David Cadogan |
| Source: |
Poultry Science, Vol 104, Iss 2, Pp 104792- (2025) |
| Publisher Information: |
Elsevier, 2025. |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
LCC:Animal culture |
| Subject Terms: |
Guanidinoacetic acid, Intestinal permeability, Microbiota, Tight junction proteins, Animal culture, SF1-1100 |
| More Details: |
The effectiveness of guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) in reduced protein (RP) diets on performance and gut health of broilers under heat stress is largely unknown. A 35-d experiment was conducted using four dietary treatments: a standard protein diet (SP, 22.1 and 20.7% CP in grower and finisher), a RP diet (20.1 and 18.7% in grower and finisher), a RP diet with 0.092% GAA per kg diet substituting 50% of supplemented arginine (GAA50) at one-to-one ratio and a RP diet with the same amount of GAA added on top (GAAtop). Day-old male Ross 308 chicks were assigned to 64 pens (10 birds each) in two rooms. In each room, each diet was replicated 8 times. From d 25 to 35, birds in one room were subjected to a cyclic heat stress (32±1 °C for 8 h). There was no interaction between diets and heat stress for any of the studied parameters. GAA50 followed by GAAtop significantly decreased the feed intake during the finisher phase (P |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
electronic resource |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
0032-5791 |
| Relation: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003257912500029X; https://doaj.org/toc/0032-5791 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.psj.2025.104792 |
| Access URL: |
https://doaj.org/article/069c5eeff27f4886bc0aa17fb0c0b699 |
| Accession Number: |
edsdoj.069c5eeff27f4886bc0aa17fb0c0b699 |
| Database: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
